INFO
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Director |
Maria Bernardi |
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Genre |
Experimental, Documentary |
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Duration |
7’ |
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Year |
2026 |
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Nationality |
Italy |
SYNOPSYS
In the emptiness of her room, the director tries to hold on to her consciousness through the webcam. Every gesture is a trial of flesh, an attempt to stay. Digital fragments are observed, replicated, and regenerated by the AI, giving shape to a film-creature. The images empty, oxidize, and lose their body. In a flow of suspended visions, a dialogue unfolds between the woman and the machine — a confrontation on the edge between presence and absence, human and artificial, where reality shatters and identity dissolves. A hypnagogic journey into the depths of a shared thought between one who was programmed to exist and one who is no longer sure they do.
STILLS
CREDITS
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Director |
Maria Bernardi |
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Genre |
Experimental |
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Duration |
7′ |
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Nationality |
Italy |
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Production |
Maria Bernardi |
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Produced in |
Nouvelle Bug vol. 3 |
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Materials |
Personal archive |
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AI Tools |
Luma AI Kling AI Suno AI |
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Mix Sound |
Gabriele Aiello |
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Graphics & Visual Design |
Nicola Lostrangio |
AWARDS AND SELECTIONS
2026 - BAFTA® Qualifying
World Premiere
23. London Short Film Festival
2026
Official Selection
26. Landshut Short Film Festival
MARIA BERNARDI
BIOGRAPHY
Maria Bernardi, born in Feltre in 2003, studies documentary filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sicily campus. Her research focuses on the blending of languages through composition and decomposition, aiming to represent the complexity of experience. She explores image, body, and sound. Her works include “Cacofonia” (2021, CSC), which treats the human voice as a sonic material; “La cosa giusta” (2022, CSC), which hybrids audiovisual archive and historical narration with arcade videogames; and “ROOM174” (2023, Nouvelle Bug residency), exploring the dialogue between AI and personal archives, investigating new expressive forms.
FILMOGRAPHY
ROOM 174
2026
LA COSA GIUSTA
2024
CACOFONIA
2023