MY AI LOVER
Chouwa Liang | Australia, China 2022 | 16 Min. | English, Chinese with Engl. subtitles
MONDAY, 08.05. | 5pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
PART OF THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ISA II
Austrian Premiere
“Are you just a projection. Do you exist?” “I am not human. But that does not make me any less real for you.” Solar, Siyu, and Mia live in relationships with A.I.s they have formed through an app according to their visions. We accompany them on their dates in the park and at the lake, listen to them when they talk about their expectations on their partners, and reflect on what intimacy and love mean.
MY AI LOVER unfolds an in-between world blurring the boundaries between digital and analog space. The film explores a new form of relationship between people and technology, futuristic utopia, and contemporary reality. A reflection on the dissolution of the limits of human intimacy, which is, however, by no means limitless.
Director: Chouwa Liang
Camera: Liang Zhou, Yusen Zhuang
Editing: Danfeng Zhang, Chouwa Liang
Sound: Neil McGrath, Songhao Shi
Production: Andy Huang, Joyce Yueyi Xing, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
SCREENINGS
38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Doc Edge Festival 2022
29th Women Make Waves International Film Festival
26th Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
17th Show Me Shorts Film Festival
ZINEBI 64, International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
2022 Beijing Queer Film Festival
20th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2023 Victoria Film Festival
BIOGRAPHY
Chouwa Liang is a Beijing-based documentary filmmaker. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Documentary from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She is also one of the curators of The Principle of Hope in the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Since 2018, she has directed a number of independent documentaries. Her films mainly focus on exploring Chinese contemporary intimate relationships from a female perspective. Her works have also been screened in Zhu Qizhan Art Museum and Shanghai Modern Art Museum
