All Her Beautiful Green Remains In Tears (2018)

All Her Beautiful Green Remains In Tears 2018 consists of repurposed footage from Walt Disneys Natures Half Acre 1951 with its parables about domesticated postwar suburbia nest building chick rearing mother love industrious insects and traditional gender roles In this case the new voiceover replacing Winston Hibler also focuses on romantic anthropomorphism The difference is this voiceover has been generated by a neural network which has learned its existence entirely from reading the female protagonist voice in romance novels Using image recognition closed captioning it tells an entirely different story of the birds and the bees of nature documentary one of female desire trauma masochism and emotional fantasy Commissioned by Live Cinema UK