This Desolate Shore

In early 2021 a machine intelligence spent two days watching several films by the legendary director JeanLuc Godard Starting with a blank slate the AI used these films to learn about our visual world for the first time Later a separate AI was used to write the poetry heard in the narration It is presented verbatim edited only for length To complete the experiment a live action narrative shot in vintage 16mm was wrapped around this otherwise AI generated film With machinegenerated imagery and narration the film gives us a glimpse into our world as seen by a new intelligence of our own design