BeyondHuman | Greetings from the New World *PREMIERE*
The film is Greeting From the New World. A dystopie AI documentary…
Imagine a new world, a place where humanity has lost its former shape and emerged fused with technology, in a cold, disconnected form of evolution. Greetings From the New World by Beyondhuman immerses you in this dark landscape, showing us a reality where every visual and sonic element speaks of a future where the human and the artificial have collapsed into a single entity, difficult to distinguish and even harder to comprehend.
From the very first moment, the video transports us to a landscape that feels both urban and desolate, like a ghost town or a planet abandoned by the echoes of what was once a thriving civilization. The figures inhabiting this place are covered in smooth metallic surfaces, their faces lost or replaced by masks, and their bodies are connected to cables that extend across the ground like the roots of a tree that no longer grows. There’s an eerie stillness in their quietude; they move, but mechanically, as if they have no will of their own, as if trapped in a programmed choreography.
The sound is cold and distant, composed of electronic pulses, hums, and echoes that fill the space, seeming to come from some faceless mechanism that governs this “new world.” The synthesizers, both familiar and alienating, create an atmosphere that penetrates, making us feel like we’re in the presence of something powerful, yet soulless. It’s as if we’re hearing the heartbeat of this mechanical world, a heartbeat that replaces the human pulse, but beats without life.
The scenes flow with a hypnotic calm, shifting from one figure to another, from one landscape to the next, as if the viewer is wandering through a gallery of humanity’s echoes. These beings, who may have once been human, are fully immersed in their new cybernetic identity. They are no longer individuals; they are pieces of a much greater structure, subordinated to a system that dictates their movements and essence. Technology has become so pervasive that it has absorbed their autonomy, and with it, their humanity.
Beyondhuman silently asks us questions. What does it mean to be human in a world where bodies are malleable and faces have disappeared? Is this an advancement, a superior form of existence, or is it the proof of a defeat of our deepest essence? This “greeting from the new world” becomes an enigma that forces us to reflect on the choices we make and where they are leading us.
Music:
Arp #1
Performed by Jackson And His Computerband
Written by Jackson Fourgeaud
Published by Warp Publishing
Courtesy of Warp Records @warprecords
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The film is Greeting From the New World. A dystopie AI documentary…
Imagine a new world, a place where humanity has lost its former shape and emerged fused with technology, in a cold, disconnected form of evolution. Greetings From the New World by Beyondhuman immerses you in this dark landscape, showing us a reality where every visual and sonic element speaks of a future where the human and the artificial have collapsed into a single entity, difficult to distinguish and even harder to comprehend.
From the very first moment, the video transports us to a landscape that feels both urban and desolate, like a ghost town or a planet abandoned by the echoes of what was once a thriving civilization. The figures inhabiting this place are covered in smooth metallic surfaces, their faces lost or replaced by masks, and their bodies are connected to cables that extend across the ground like the roots of a tree that no longer grows. There’s an eerie stillness in their quietude; they move, but mechanically, as if they have no will of their own, as if trapped in a programmed choreography.
The sound is cold and distant, composed of electronic pulses, hums, and echoes that fill the space, seeming to come from some faceless mechanism that governs this “new world.” The synthesizers, both familiar and alienating, create an atmosphere that penetrates, making us feel like we’re in the presence of something powerful, yet soulless. It’s as if we’re hearing the heartbeat of this mechanical world, a heartbeat that replaces the human pulse, but beats without life.
The scenes flow with a hypnotic calm, shifting from one figure to another, from one landscape to the next, as if the viewer is wandering through a gallery of humanity’s echoes. These beings, who may have once been human, are fully immersed in their new cybernetic identity. They are no longer individuals; they are pieces of a much greater structure, subordinated to a system that dictates their movements and essence. Technology has become so pervasive that it has absorbed their autonomy, and with it, their humanity.
Beyondhuman silently asks us questions. What does it mean to be human in a world where bodies are malleable and faces have disappeared? Is this an advancement, a superior form of existence, or is it the proof of a defeat of our deepest essence? This “greeting from the new world” becomes an enigma that forces us to reflect on the choices we make and where they are leading us.
Credits:
Directed by @BeyondHuman
Music:
Arp #1
Performed by Jackson And His Computerband
Written by Jackson Fourgeaud
Published by Warp Publishing
Courtesy of Warp Records
@warprecords
Editing:
@antonio_lizzio_editor
Grading:
@colomer.alice
@wearesaintgeorge
Special thanks:
@sebastien.drhey
@innervision_paris
@josefklumix
@bastien_harispe
James Sénade
www.anneezero.com
@anneezerogalerie
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