See the liminal spaces of abandoned offices and adjacent corridors through the eyes of someone who feels at home in them. The entity’s wanderings, punctuated by close-ups of materials or digital surfaces, provide an opportunity for empathy with something that, like us, is looking for a way out.
Perplexity is a journey that traverses the non-human condition, as seen from a non-human perspective. It asks its viewers to seek solidarity with the non-human. Utilizing a distinctive blend of animation techniques in Unity3D, coupled with AI style transfer, the film employs a unique visual style to mirror its premise. Meanwhile, electronic music, permeated by the fragile vocals of Václav Peloušek aka Toyota Vangelis, embraces the mise-en-scène in an almost redemptive gesture.
Franz Milec is a Czech/Slovak experimental filmmaker, media artist & film researcher currently based in Rome, Italy. For many years now, Franz has been exploring the intersection of film and data, making cinematic experiences using cutting-edge tools while bringing the politics of technology to the forefront.
His latest series Artifacts (2022–2024) seeks an escape from today’s hyperinflation of words and images. Taking a detour to liquid space, the series asks whether experimental cinema can still surprise us, for example by subverting artificial intelligence or state of the art visual effects.
Franz is a regular at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (part of the Doc Alliance), and his works belong to the catalog of Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre.
