Between fiction and memory lies a space of speculation, where fables and science fiction pose questions without seeking answers. It is within this field of inquiry that past, present, and future converge, coexisting in a temporal tension that blurs the boundaries between the individual and the collective through stories and myths.
The short films gathered in this program explore, through diverse cinematic languages, the relationship between identity, technology, memory, and desire. Erasure approaches the voice as a political territory, examining the intersection of gender identity and AI technologies, along with their ethical implications. More Than Happy unfolds as a meditative animation drifting between dream and reality, reflecting on intimacy and memory through dissolving imagery.
Le prime volte (The First Times) revisits and reappropriates the archive from a collective perspective, rewriting past and present experiences of women through gestures, gazes, and imaginaries. In Erogenesis, speculative fiction envisions worlds freed from reproductive labor, opening space for new forms of sexuality and non-genital desire. From a mythological and sensory perspective, My Name is Lilith creates an enigmatic animation that embraces nocturnal creatures, techno rhythms, and submerged worlds, while Black Fairytale offers a poetic, dreamlike universe where water, memory, and collective dreams flow across time and space. Together, the program forms a journey between the intimate and the speculative, inviting viewers to inhabit images that do not seek closure, but expansion.
Content notes: physical and sexist violence, flash lights and strobosopic effects
Babylon Kreuzberg
29.05.2026 – 18:30
ERASURE is an audiovisual piece that explores the entangled relationship between voice, identity, and technology. Drawing inspiration from the language and format of music videos, the work blends aesthetic experimentation with critical inquiry.
ERASURE integrates generative AI tools into the creative process, pushing the boundaries of how music and voice can be composed. Through techniques such as AI voice model training and voice cloning, ERASURE merges human and digital voices to reveal how artificial systems encode and reproduce social biases. In most of the piece, the human vocalists never actually spoke the words being heard, yet the AI replicates their voices so precisely that it becomes nearly impossible to discern the difference.
By training AI on a group of queer and trans vocalists, the piece celebrates the fluidity and multiplicity of identity while exposing the ethical and technical tensions surrounding representation, authorship, agency, and deepfake technologies. It asks: Who gets to be represented? Who controls a voice? What happens when technology can replicate or alter someone’s identity? By foregrounding the political and poetic dimensions of the voice, the work exposes both the promise and the peril of AI’s attempt to emulate what is most human.
Director: Fá Maria
Country: Germany/UK, 2025
Language: English, spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16:31 min
In a queer utopia, two couples sit in conversation at a restaurant, waiting for service that will never arrive. As hunger grows, they talk about time and happiness. One dreams of a mother’s blessing, another of ghosts in the past. Not wanting to wait forever, they decide to leave.
Director: Wei Keong Tan
Writer: Wei Keong Tan
Country: Singapore, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 06’58” min
Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?
Director: Giulia Cosentino and Perla Sardella
Writer: Giulia Cosentino, Perla Sardella
Country: Italy/Spain, 2025
Language: Italian
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16 min
In the aftermath of a mysterious disaster, the few humans left find themselves unable to reproduce the species. All hope lies in the hands of five women who have developed the technology to create human life outside the body.
Director: Xandra Popescu
Writer: Xandra Popescu, Clara Puhlmann
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: German
Duration: 15 min
My name is Lilith. I am the first woman, created alongside Adam. My encounter with Eve will shatter every stereotype that we’ve been trapped in.
Director: Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur
Country: Belgium, France, 2025
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration: 14 min
We follow the day of princess, who lives deep under the sea and is called by cauri shells to travel across time and space. On their journey they become a witness of possibilities of black resistance and existence. In three worlds they encounter three figures, each sharing a glimpse of their story, making different black experiences and forms of knowledge visible. All encounters are materialized in a small object that Princess archives and cares for with their community.
Director: Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi and Mariama Sow
Writer: Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi and Mariama Sow
Country: Austria, Germany, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, 2026
Language: English, German, French
Subtitle: English
Duration: 23 min