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About this submission
This film follows a woman using an AI chatbot to find closure with someone she lost. All of ChatGPT’s responses were unscripted, and on one hand, the film was an experiment in seeing how ChatGPT would respond in an emotionally volatile situation. But it was also a way for me to process my abrupt breakup with my queer platonic partner. In the film, the character realizes ChatGPT’s artificiality, and how closure can only come through human connection. Directing it, I realized that, if unchecked, art can become another artificiality too—a commodification of pain into product before really processing it.
Creator
J.K. Wang (she/they) is a trans and Taiwanese American multidisciplinary artist, dedicating herself to film, microtonal music, and writing poetry and prose. She has directed four self-funded feature films, along with shorts, experimental work, and video installations, and has screened at festivals worldwide, including Festival Angaelica and Midsummer Scream. She founded the VWC Film Collective and holds a BA in Film and Television Production from Loyola Marymount University. Wang is the editor at Bulletshrimp! Magazine, a queer, photo-illustrated short story anthology, and has published empirical research on Asian American internalized racism in a major psychology journal. She also works as the community engagement specialist at The TransLatin@ Coalition, an intersectional nonprofit advocating for the transgender community. Currently based in Los Angeles, Wang has moved eight times in her life: residing in places such as Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Taiwan. more...