In another time, in a different world, mankind has made progress . . . Ruled by the very AI they developed and employed to set them free, humans have become slaves to their machine. We have lost friendship, love, and sex, and we are the machine labor and means of production. In a tomorrow-land without touch or value, a future very much of our making, upon which human life is transaction and output, we have lost humanity. The AI, the machine, has put us to work, and we humans do not work without it. We labor and toil for calculations and machinations logical and unfeeling, having forgotten one another and ourselves.
Yet there are the Los: the most human of us, ostracized, exiled, and refuted by the rest for knowing nature and refusing to resist intimacy and the intangible connections of life. It is the Los who would free mankind to return to their humanity and to become again the collective “we” of individuality, of love, of freedom from artificial design. The Los will go to war for the humans who were not and for the humans they are, but . . . will they save us?
LANGUAGE : English COUNTRY : USA YEAR : 2020 DURATION : 06m DIRECTOR / WRITER : Martin Del Carpio ANIMATION AND COLLAGE ART : Nikola Gocic PRODUCER : Martin Del Carpio COMPOSER : Sharif Sehnaoui
Bio : Martin Del Carpio is a filmmaker based in New York. His creative output started with music and with time, slowly progressed into filmmaking without any formal training or education.
His cinematic journey began by utilizing his instincts with the experimental genre making short films such as Howl, The Dark Forest, Auricular Confession, Mother’s Milk andLOS. Those works have been selected and won at film festivals such as Coney Island Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival, The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University and many others.
With his last couple of film projects such as The Double Room, Why Are You Still Dreaming (Human)? and I Exist, he has ventured into writing his own scripts and creating short films that are still artistic but with a more narrative edge hopefully taking us on a journey to places all the same unexplored.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
