A.I. Mama
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.
“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
Awards:
︎︎︎Audience Award, Live Action Short Film, Film Maudit 2.0 (2023)
Screenings:
︎︎︎Terror Tuesdays: Anatomia Extinction, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn NYC (2024)
︎︎︎Art is Life is Art, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, LA (2024)
︎︎︎VideoClub x Drink Me Not Potion, Extrapool, Netherlands (2023)
︎︎︎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