Overloaded

An AI video in the form of a fake documentary, on the information overload of contemporary life. It opens like a brain science documentary explaining neural hyperexcitability, but as it runs on, unnecessary information, unrelated images and distorted facts work their way in and pull down the logic it started with. A film that sets out to explain information overload falls into information overload itself, so the phenomenon is experienced as form rather than as content. The tone is retro, taken from the classic science documentaries of the 1990s and 2000s. Apart from a few live action shots, the people, the spaces and the moving images were made with generative AI including Kling and Hailuo, and the narration with ElevenLabs. Overloaded. AI video, 2min 53sec