The Future Ahead Is Going To Be Weird AF, (Part 1)

Welcome to the post-post-post-truth AI world. You know it’s not real. But you have to eat some bread in order to survive. And there is more out there. Synthetic personalities await you at the door. The future ahead will be weird AF.

We live in a time of great ambiguity and confusion. Events keep happening that seem unreal and out of control. Dead celebrities are coming back from heaven in every shape and size, from holograms to metaverse avatars and deepfakes. Creators are desperately trying to capitalize on pop culture’s ancient splendor. Memers are living a new cursed golden era.

All around them, the world is burning. While watching the decay of the internet with a cool detachment, only one thing remains certain: “Fakes are among us, and the future ahead will be weird as fuck.”

The short film is inspired by the work of Adam Curtis, actually introduced by his synthetic voice, made with the generative AI text-to-speech and voice cloning software ElevenLabs. Like Adam Curtis’s original documentary series, the movie is a compilation of archival materials, collected from the endless source of news and oddities that the internet still is.


In collaboration with SCCA– Center for Contemporary Arts and the Slovenian Cinematheque in the framework of the V-F-X Ljubljana – Festival of Experimental Audiovisual Practices.