The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF (The Ultimate AI CoreCore Experience), Part One
2024 · 10m · Italy
Directed by Silvia Dal Dosso
Genres: experimental, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A post-post-post-truth AI-era collage where dead celebrities return from heaven, millionaires hide at the bottom of the Earth, and love is intercepted by emotional advertising and robots.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, someone making a film that *feels* like what happens when you let the internet dream while on stimulants — dead celebrities and underground billionaires colliding in a space where emotional ads hunt you like sentient parasites. This is the kind of premise that makes every other sci-fi short look like it was workshopped to death in a room full of people afraid of their own ideas.
Dal Dosso's collage aesthetic sits uneasily between post-internet maximalism and satire, which is precisely the tension the film needs — though the formal control required to keep this from dissolving into pure chaos feels inconsistent across the ten minutes, leaving the work somewhere between provocation and unfocused pastiche.
The decision to layer emotional advertising as both visual texture and narrative trap (rather than just background noise) is what keeps the surrealism tethered to something real — it's a single conceptual choice that transforms what could've been a scattershot meme-compilation into actual science fiction commentary.