Tarmac GPT Blues
2025 · 1m · Unknown
Directed by bobie
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A video poem threading fragmented footage from European towns into an existential meditation on humanity's coexistence with technology.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
76 seconds of video-poem about AI anxiety in fading European cities — at least it's honest about being a mood piece. Marker would have made it longer; this is fine for what it is.
The Marker-via-blues-progression conceit — wandering European cities haunted by the AI question — is precisely the small-scale essayistic form video poems do best. At seventy-six seconds the form is exactingly compressed; that compression earns my attention.
1:16 video poem of European cities and natural sound mixed into an AI-anxiety blues — at that runtime the structural-blues conceit has to land in eight bars or it doesn't land. The synopsis is more developed than the page evidence, so I'm rating the pitch.