FILM

White Cloud mines the fecund fields of AI-generated video, NPC girlfriends, and the military training apparatus of deep learning to discuss rare-earth mining. Life is conditionally reacting to the potentialities of electronic systems. Van der Auwera looks into the deep underbelly of these technologies and the rarely spoken relationship between the earth’s bowels and humanity’s outer space dreams. The film has an uncanny, slightly grotesque feel as emerging AI technologies show their own flaws. While questions related to geopolitics, ecology, capitalism, conspiracy and future scenarios circulate around the film, at the core is the testimony of a lonely miner attempting to embrace a dark and desolate landscape in search of a better tomorrow.