Statement:

I’ve been reflecting on the gap between big-data archives and the raw essence of our humanity that often gets overlooked. Today, surveillance technologies gather vast amounts of information, creating detailed records of our lives. Yet, they miss the fleeting, intimate moments within our communities —those transient conversations that truly define our human experience. I’m drawn to the idea of capturing these ephemeral interactions and giving them tangible form. The film I’m working on is a sentimental counter-practice, preserving these intimate personal archives that reveal who we are. 


I started recording these conversations during my time at university to help with my clinical memory loss. Over time, the project expanded, and I couldn’t keep up with reviewing the material, resulting in a vast archive of conversations spanning hundreds of hours. It wasn’t until a residency in New York last year that I began to dive into these recordings, using AI to transcribe conversations that had faded from memory. After transcribing and printing these dialogues, I began calling them ‘scripts of life’ as they appeared to be a strange blend of documentary material wrapped up in the formal structures of a script created by the AI software. I realised that, due to the nature of fleeting recollections, generative AI was the perfect fit for this project of memory reconstruction. 


Even though this is an AI-driven project, its heart remains deeply human. It reflects a distinct, diverse, geographically and chronologically varied community—of queers, yet not only. Strangely, it is a community of queers also in the original sense of the word, since none of these people really met, either in time or in space, but only in my memory. With this work, I aim to highlight the essence of what constitutes a community, exploring how it is framed and formed, and, most importantly, how it is maintained and cared for.