Cinema Thinking Through Machines: Artefacto on AI & Documentary

What happens when cinema learns to think through machines? How do we maintain documentary integrity when any image could be synthetic? This artist lecture features Barcelona-based filmmakers and researchers Anna Giralt Gris and Jorge Caballero from Artefacto Films, exploring how machine vision and generative AI are reshaping documentary practice. Through projects like Membrana, Artifacts of War, and 09/05/1982, they reveal cinema as an expanded field of thought—one that learns through algorithms, datasets, and probabilistic imagination. This isn’t about whether to use AI tools, but how we learn to think through machines, make processes visible, and turn uncertainty into a new form of truth.

13 November 2025 – Netherlands Film Academy