Curated by Emilie CHOY Sin-yi

This programme gathers four works that probe how digital existence reconfigures our imaginaries of the body and its surrounds. Beginning from the materiality of the digital—the labour, infrastructures, minerals, and climates that sustain computation—the programme rethinks the cultural and social politics embedded in bodies and datasets alike. Their Eyes brings into view the Global South workers who train and maintain artificial intelligence.   Fossilis approaches the digital milieu through an archaeological lens, excavating interfaces and residues to expose technology’s extractive logics. Delivery Dancers’ Sphere traces platform delivery labour and its cultural politics through AI and avatar performance. Tropic Temper scrutinises regimes of environmental control built upon Singapore’s tropical imaginaries. Together, these works ask what is sensed, governed, and resisted when bodies meet computation.

Tropic Temper

Tropic Temper cracks open Singapore’s code as a site of a disciplined tropics, deconstructing the roots that this garden city has forgotten.

Director / Elizabeth Gabrielle LEE
Singapore / 2023 / 16’14

Upstart Festival (2025) V&A South Kensington, UK
Nameless. echoes, spectres, hisses (2020) online film festival on research platform XING

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Delivery Dancer’s Sphere

Ernst Mo is a rider for the powerful courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine, technofuturist Seoul. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack.

Director / Ayoung KIM
South Korea / 2023 / 25’00

2023:
Prix Ars Electronica: Received the Golden Nica award for New Animation Art.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Image Forum Festival
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 
Singapore International Film Festival
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
BLON Animation & Games Festival
Art Basel Film Programme
Videoex Festival
BEK Opening Week 2023
Vilnius Short Film Festival
Filmfest Dresden
International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund
World Film Festival of Bangkok
Grain Urbain Film Festival

2024:
Frieze Film (Frieze Seoul)
Korean Cultural Centre UK

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Their Eyes

How does a machine learn to read the world? In a series of testimonies and screen recordings, clickworkers from the Global South talk about their daily work. Their job is to analyse, edit and label countless images of traffic on the streets of the Global North to train the AI of self-driving cars to navigate. In transnational chat rooms, the clickworkers imagine micro-strategies to hack the system that is exploiting them.

Director / Nicolas GOURAULT
France / 2024 / 22’36

2025:
Berlinale (Germany)
Telluride Film Festival (United States)
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Germany)
IndieLisboa (Portugal)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) (Hong Kong)
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Bolton International Film Festival (United Kingdom)
Tirana Film Festival (Albania)
Take One Action Film Festivals (United Kingdom)

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Fossilis

Fossilis is oneiric cinema—a phantasmal science-fiction prognosis, an essay film, and a tale of the verdant inferno of technological legacy. It grapples with the twenty-first-century reality that most of the planet’s discarded electronics—victims of planned obsolescence—are dumped and entombed in Asia. Live-action sets fashioned from refuse, scenes shot in flea-markets of cannibalised components, 3-D assets and environments salvaged from abandoned projects, and AI images generated from thousands of unused photographs form its fabric. Fossilis thus offers more than concepts, narrative, or representation: its very production harnesses both digital and physical waste, transforming e-waste itself into an artistic medium.

Director / Riar RIZALDI
Indonesia / 2023 / 13‘00

5th VH Award (2023)
Ars Electronica (2023)
Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture (2024)
Painting with Light Film Festival (2025)

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