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asuka lin / 林 飛鳥

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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 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.

Available on Blu-Ray: ‘Backyard Bloodbaths’ from Bleeding Skull, with commentary


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Screenings

2024

2023
Guild cinema, CYBERGRIME, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Grand Illusion Cinema, CYBERGRIME, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Extrapool, Drink Me Not Potion, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Varsity Cinema, CYBERGRIME, Des Moines, IA, USA
  • Irish Film Institute, Small Trans Film Club, Dublin, Ireland
  • FilmScene, CYBERGRIME, Iowa City, IA, USA
  • Experimental Film Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
  • Midtown Cinema, CYBERGRIME, Harrisburg, PA, USA
  • Spacy, CYBERGRIME, Dallas, TX, USA
  • Silent Green, Video Club, Berlin, Germany
  • Facets, CYBERGRIME, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti, USA
  • London Short Film Festival, London, UK
  • Film Maudit 2.0, Los Angeles, CA, USA


2022
  • HOME, Destination: Other Worlds, Manchester, UK
  • CCA Glasgow, Destination: Other Worlds, Glasgow, UK
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK
  • New Dogs Old Tricks Screening Program, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • FUSE Film Festival, Karlovac, Croatia
  • Queer East Film Festival, London, UK
  • OTV Spring 2022 Showcase, Chicago, IL, USA
  • CalArts New Films New Animations, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2021
  • A Night of Misfit Films, AZ, USA
  • Bizzaroland Film Festival, FL, USA
  • Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival, London, UK
  • Thuh Film Festival, Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival
  • Malarkey Film Festival, New York City, NY, USA
  • FLICKFAIR Film Festival
  • Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, USA
2020
  • Drunken Film Festival Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA
  • DEITY Online Group Screening
  • Iso Film Festival
  • Luna Film Festival
  • Coaxial Summer Series
  • Super F*cked Up Film Festival
  • Frostbite Film Festival
  • Locked in Film Festival


Awards

  • Audience Award, Live Action Short Film, Film Maudit 2.0 (2023)
  • Best Production Design, Bizzaroland Film Festival (2021)
  • Audience Favorite Award, A Night of Misfit Films (2021)
  • Industry Vote Award, Malarkey Film Festival (2021)
  • Best Experimental Film, Big Muddy Film Festival (2021)
  • Jury’s Choice Award, Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival (2021)
  • Best Concept, Frostbite Film Festival (2020)
  • Best Sci-Fi Short, Frostbite Film Festival (2020)


Press
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