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Original Film Title: Lost In Iteration: The Dream That Dreams
Director’s Name: Esther Gronenborn
Writer’s Name: Esther Gronenborn
Producer: Esther Gronenborn
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 5 minutes
Film Description:
Lost in Iteration I: The Dream That Dreams is a 4K video installation exploring how perception, authorship and the collective mind transform under the influence of generative AI.
The video unfolds as a visual hallucination: The images flicker through an endless loop of transformations. Faces multiply, blur, and dissolve; bodies twist into impossible forms.
A woman, perhaps many, appear, dissolving and reappearing in glitch-ridden loops. Her body becomes a mutable surface, shaped by systems that remember and forget. A man’s voice interjects-not with certainty, but with questions: Who dreams these images? Whose desire do they reflect?
The visual language is marked by algorithmic errors, digital textures, and distortions that undermine clarity. The installation offers no clear resolution. Instead, it presents a space of perpetual transition, a moment caught between observation and a feverish nightmare, between projection and reality. A dreamlike inquiry into how art is defined in a time when AI might develop its own „intent“. Does artistic meaning shift from creation to reception? Is generative AI a vast ocean of our collective subconscious, surfacing visions that blur the line between private memory and shared cultural dreams? Perhaps, in the near future, we won’t merely dream images, they might begin to dream us.
The piece will be displayed on a large flat-screen monitor in a white, minimalist room reminiscent of a hospital waiting area- white walls, sparse white furniture, and a sterile atmosphere. This setting sharpens the viewer’s sense of dislocation and frees the work as both intimate and clinical observation.