FINNISH AND PARANOID DREAM

Directors:

Writers:

Jimena Aguilar

Producers:

Jimena Aguilar, Mantrixa

Run Time:

0:07:00

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How to talk about the future when it seems there is no future? The world exploded and it only remains a voice formulating hypotheses about a future that will be or that already is. What is all this? A prologue to the future? The future itself? A Finnish and paranoid dream? It seems that the future has already arrived and many of our fantasies about the different futuristic imaginaries already inhabit this world along with our humanity. As an example of this: artificial intelligence, a tool that we used to make this short film and that intersects organically with its concept.

AI tools used: Stable Diffusion, Kaiber, Pika Labs.

Submitter Statement

I wrote this script a few years ago, in part motivated by an investigation that I was undertaking for a stage play in which I was immersed at that time, and also due to the memory and in response to a song by David Byrne from 1985 called "In the future." I couldn't find a scenic form for this material and that was when I called Mantrixa, with whom we had already worked on the visuals of two stage productions that I directed, and I asked him if he was interested in generating some audiovisual material that would dialogue with the script I had wroten. So he told me that he was starting to experiment with the generation of images and videos using artificial intelligence, and that was when the integral concept of this proposal made complete sense and the crossover was simply wonderful.

Jimena Aguilar is a director, screenwriter, playwright, musician, and producer. She has taken part in numerous projects for stage productions and films. “Finnish and Paranoid Dream”, an experimental animated short film directed by Aguilar, has been selected by over 80 festivals worldwide and has received awards in Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Turkey.

Her plays have been staged in Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, and published in Argentina and Spain.

Key Cast

Camila Peralta

Other Credits

Animation: Mantrixa; Original Music and Sound Design: Jimena Aguilar; Edition: Mantrixa; Additional Sound and Sound Mix: Mantrixa; Director of Photography: Felipe Rubio; Director of Sound: Felipe Rubio; Art Direction: Jimena Aguilar, Mantrixa; Graphic Design: Mantrixa