A.D.A.M.

Synopsis

The fall of an asteroid mining device named A.D.A.M. (Autonomous Drone for Asteroid Mining) causes the strengthening of its cognitive processes and activation of the autonomous mode. This leads to its refusal of communication with the satellite company operators. An atlas of intensive empty landscapes, urban megastructures and lost horizons immersed in a cacophony of languages, codes and communication networks forms the basis of this metafiction about the relationship between man and machine. Their joint trajectory toward overload starts with the act of leaving the sea, continues by passing through mythic ambients and finally ends with the arrival in the unstable and saturated space of contemporary hyperurbanism. Efficient solution algorithm: Non-existent.

Director Biography

Vladislav Knežević (1967) studied at the Academy of Drama Arts (TV and Film Direction Dept.) in Zagreb and De Vrije Academie (Audio-visual Dept.) in Den Haag. Professionally works as a freelance director for TV and various productions since 1993. He is into experimental film, video and sound processing since 1988. He has also initiated and organized several film programmes and presentations (Reference to Difference, Videodrome TV edition, 25 FPS International Experimental Film Festival).