Berlin Remix – A Computationally Generative “City Film” Artwork

2020 
Berlin Remix is a computationally generative artwork that creates and presents a series of short films re-edited and re-mixed from the archetypal “City Film” documentary Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttman 1927). The “City Film” is an historical documentary genre. These City films thrived in the late 20s and 30s, and continue to this day. Each of them documented the daily life of an individual city. The central film in the development of this genre is Ruttman’s Berlin. Berlin Remix is a generative artwork that re-mixes the individual shots of the original film into a series of shorter films. Each of these shorter films differs from the others in specific content, cinematic style, or both. Each of the derived films shows a single facet or theme contained within the larger film. The final form of the artwork will run completely autonomously, generating the series of shorter films in real time. The artwork as exhibited at CSDH/SCHN 2019 required a moderate amount of human intervention to join the system’s output segments into short films. Resume Le Berlin Remix est une oeuvre d’art informatiquement generative qui cree et presente une serie de films courts remodifies et remixes venant du documentaire de l’archetype « film de ville » (City Film) qui s’appelle Berlin : Symphony of a Great City (Ruttman 1927). Le « film de ville » est un genre documentaire historique. Ces films de ville s’epanouissaient pendant la fin des annees 1920 et 1930, et aujourd’hui encore. Le film central du developpement de ce genre est celui de Ruttman, nomme Berlin. Le Berlin Remix est une oeuvre d’art generative qui remixe les images individuelles du film original en serie de films plus courts. Chacun de ces films plus courts varie l’un des autres selon le contexte specifique, selon le style cinematographique, ou selon les deux a la fois. Chacun des films derives montre une facette ou un theme unique, confine dans le film entier. La forme finale de cette oeuvre d’art fonctionnera de facon autonome, generant la serie de films plus courts en temps reel. L’oeuvre d’art, comme expose a CSDH/SCHN 2019, a exige une quantite moderee d’intervention humaine afin de transformer la production de sequences du systeme en films courts. Mots cles: art video; art generative; esthetics; cinematographique, film documentaire; media numerique
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