THE COMPUTER ACCENT
A film by Sebastian Pardo, Riel Roch-Decter
2022, 83 minutes
2022, 83 minutes
No. 406
Documentary
Documentary
Description
While Artificial Intelligence has made in-roads in almost every area of human labor, the field of artistic creation was once regarded as relatively safe from automation—for what is art without the human soul?
Roch-Decter and Pardo’s The Computer Accent offers a look at an age of AI artistry that may be coming sooner than you think, documenting the fascinating, sometimes frustrating “collaboration” between the post-pop group YACHT and a state-of-the-art computer that has studied their back catalog, algorithmically generating music, lyrics, and the title for the band’s seventh album, “Chain Tripping,” to then be recorded in the studio by the flesh-and-blood trio.
Heartening or horrifying depending on your viewpoint, The Computer Accent is a window into the future - that is already here.
Festivals
Official Selection, CPH:DOX
Official Selection, Sensoria Film Festival
Official Selection, Gray Area Festival
Official Selection, New Hampshire Film Festival
Reviews
“An auditory and visual treat... entertaining and informative.” - Film Snobbery
"...insightfully educates." - Nancy Snipper, Arts Without Borders
“While The Computer Accent is about A.I. technology, it is mostly concerned with the humans behind the technology." - Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine
"...insightfully educates." - Nancy Snipper, Arts Without Borders
