A.I. Mama

“Asuka Lin's A.I. Mama was a unique film
with a punk vision of computational need,
carried out in an analog space, full of
wires and gear and hallucinations.”
- Juror Jason Livingston, Big Muddy Film Festival

A.I. Mama is a post-cyberpunk short featuring Kei, a young programmer who attempts to resurrect their lost mother by coding an A.I. that can input childhood memories.

Shot handheld on raw black & white Super 8, this frenetic 5 minute live action + animation crescendoes into a cathartic collapse of the binaries of mother and child, creator and creation.

Awards:

︎︎︎Audience Award, Live Action Short Film, Film Maudit 2.0 (2023)

Screenings:

︎︎︎VideoClub, silent green, Berlin (2023)
︎︎︎Destination: Other Worlds, HOME Manchester (2022)
︎︎︎Destination: Other Worlds, CCA Glasgow (2022)
︎︎︎New Dogs Old Tricks Screening (2022)
︎︎︎OTV Spring Showcase (2022)
︎︎︎CalArts New Films New Animations (2022)
︎︎︎DEITY Online Group Screening (2020)
︎︎︎Coaxial Summer Series (2020)

Featured:

︎︎︎cine-file: “Crucial Viewing, July 14 - July 20”
︎︎︎Block Club Chicago: “Cybergrime Festival Brings 8 Twisted Short Films To Facets This Weekend”
︎︎︎Bleeding Skull: “SHORTS THAT TORE OUR HEADS OFF: VOLUME 7”
︎︎︎Revista Caligari: “DVA (2023), DE ALEXANDRA KARELINA” ︎︎︎CLOT Magazine: “Insight: Artists’ Moving Images — ‘Destination: Other Worlds’ and ‘East Place West Place’”
︎︎︎Girls In Film: Featured Films
︎︎︎The Glasglow Guardian: Review: Queer East Film Festival @ CCA
︎︎︎Dread Central: “10 Underrated Transgender Horror Films to Watch After They/Them’”
︎︎︎the devil wears jadon docs: Queer Favorites #1
︎︎︎A Timeline of Transgender Horror 2: Electric Boogaloo
︎︎︎“Finding Softness Within Cyberpunk”, SYMS Mag Issue 1