Permanent screening room to enjoy a carefully selected international selection of short films generated with artificial intelligence tools that have formed part of the Official Section of the +RAIN Film Festival 2023 and 2024.
The +RAIN Film Festival is the first international film festival generated with artificial intelligence in Europe, promoted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and co-organised with Sónar. It was created with the aim of projecting internationally the research and debate on the narrative potential of AI creation, as well as its use as a tool to create new languages in the field of media and film production. The festival hosts the best film productions generated with AI at an international level, and includes the presentation of projects and software developments underway for their application in the cultural, creative and technological industries.
- Jimena Aguilar | Argentina | 2024 | 7 min
- Adam Cole | UK | 2021 | 1 min
- Rachel Maclean | UK | 2023 | 16 min
- Carme Puche Moré | Spain| 2023 | 3 min
- Maria Thuý Hiên Than | UK | 2023 | 7 min
- Eddie Wong | Malaysia | 2022 | 15 min
From 29/05 to 1/06 2025
M|A|C Prison
Thursday to Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday from 11am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free admission
Sueño finlandés y paranoico
It seems that the future has already arrived and many of our fantasies about different futuristic imaginaries already inhabit this world along with our humanity. How can we talk about the future when there seems to be no future? The world has exploded and all that remains is a voice formulating hypotheses of a future that will be or already is.
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Direction: Jimena Aguilar
Country: Argentina
Year of production: 2024
Genre: Essay
Duration: 7 min
Kiss/Crash
An AI repeatedly and lovingly translates a car crash into a kiss, increasing in intensity with each collision.
Drawing on a familiar cinematic language, this piece also connects AI imagery with a long history of image production technologies aimed at inciting and homogenising our desires through artificial representations.
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Direction: Adam Cole
Country: UK
Year of production: 2021
Genre: Non-narrative
Duration: 1 min
My Word
Who defines who we are? What happens when images betray our words? How do we survive in a world that constantly misunderstands us? If a black woman in her sixties, a surgeon, says the words ‘I am a doctor’ and the images that come to her are white men with beards, what is going on? My word is an audiovisual creation project based on the artificial intelligence technology text-to-image latent diffusion model (LDM) that uses the bias implicit in technology to be part of the debate on the unconscious biases generated by the patriarchal and colonial system.
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Direction: Carme Puche Moré
Country: Spain
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Essay
Duration: 3 min
Home Age to Avalokitesvara
Narrative of a second-generation Vietnamese-French-British multicultural immigrant through the warm, colourful and naive perspective of her youthful spirit, as a way of honouring, preserving and archiving the emotional memory that is relatable to many second-generation Vietnamese Buddhists.
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Direction: Maria Thuý Hiên Than
Country: UK
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Essay
Duration: 7 min
Portrait of the Jungle People
Exploration of the author’s grandfather, an anti-colonial communist guerrilla fighter who fought in British Malaya. Combining machine-generated compositions and a multi-layered narrative, the film brings to life fragmented memories and allegories, while transiting between the construction of the Chinese-Malaysian narrative as fluid and hallucinatory.
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Direction: Eddie Wong
Country: Malaysia
Year of production: 2022
Genre: Essay
Duration: 15 min
