Toute la data du monde

An experimental short video essay that reimagines Alain Resnais' iconic 1956 essay film Toute la mémoire du monde for the AI age. Resnais' film, on the surface a documentary portrait of the French National Library, has commonly been understood as a meditation on the crisis of memory, knowledge, and ethics after the horrors of World War II. Toute la data du monde takes some of Resnais' images and questions as inspiration and applies them to this new current crisis of memory, knowledge, and archivization in the age of AI. Through surreal, meditative, and entirely AI-generated images, it suggests what the libraries of artificial intelligence and data might look like and holds a critical, self-reflexive mirror to the existential questions AI is imposing on our image world.

Screenings:

Jeu de Paume, Paris (2025)

Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, Venice (2025)

CUT/GENERATE: Montage and AI International conference, Paris (2025)

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images, Venice (2025)

AI Film Now, Lugano (2025)

Billy Wilder Theater, Los Angeles (2025)