I Decided To Fight With My Wife Over Salmon
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Luke Strickler
Genres: animation, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A husband plots a deliberate, theatrical argument with his wife at a restaurant — premeditating each line, weaponizing the waitstaff, and narrating his own descent. The visuals come courtesy of a DALL-E 2 fever dream that won't shut up.
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The scouts
Yes, it's AI slop — but it's AI slop used on purpose, against itself, as a weapon. That's the only honest way to use these tools and Strickler knows it.
Strickler deploys DALL-E 2 as deranged inner monologue rather than as illustration — AI imagery used against, not for, the technology. The conceptual antagonism is the most interesting thing here.
Built almost entirely from DALL-E 2 imagery deployed AGAINST the technology, with a pre-planned Ruby Tuesdays fight as the narrative spine — that's the right use of AI-as-deranged-monologue, not as crutch. Joe Biden kissing a goat as an inner-monologue flash is exactly the visual chaos this premise needs.
Reviews
A constantly morphing digital art collage about love, hate, and death — Strickler stays on the front lines of new art technologies, finding ways to subvert the common uses of digital tools.