Trying to Make a Podcast
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by
Marcin Ratajczyk
Austria, 2024, 11 min
Trying to Make a Podcast is an experimental meta-commentary that
playfully deconstructs the relationship between artificial intelligence
and artistic interpretation. The film documents two AI-generated podcast
hosts attempting to analyze a series of AI-generated video loops called
"trying to," while unwittingly embodying the very limitations they
discuss. As the hosts deploy increasingly complex theoretical language
and references to figures like Bruno Schulz, their conversation becomes a
performative demonstration of AI's capacity to mimic intellectual
discourse without truly grasping its emotional core. The work operates
on multiple levels of artificial mediation: AI analyzing AI, creating a
recursive loop of simulated understanding that mirrors the endless
cycles of the original video pieces. Through this layered approach, the
film raises provocative questions about authenticity, creative agency,
and the nature of artistic interpretation in an era of synthetic media.