What is information?
Wonder about the foundations of language, its meaning and its forms... for men and machines.
This film is part of the transmedia project “The singularity” (www.la-singularite.com).
Why this movie ?
Poetic variation from a text of Jacques Lacan (the Seminar - Book II (1954-1955) - XXII - Where is talk ? Where is language ?
Text prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller - Editions du Seuil.
In 1955, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan asks about forms and functions of language, between humans, between humans and machines, and machines between machines. In my opinion, in a pre-conscience of the subject, he defines the foundations for a psychoanalysis of artificial intelligence.
The kaleidoscope, a figure made up of mirrored replications of the same image, offers a very “organic” vision of things. Like a visual metaphor for cell division, it opens up a realm of perceptions and emotions far beyond the mere decoration it might at first appear to embody. This figure, very rare in films, has always questioned me, which is why I’ve been exploring it in film for a long time.
It’s been a nice surprise to see animated kaleidoscopes flourishing on screens over the last four or five years, in film and series credits in particular. I invite you to read the manifesto text on the practice of animated kaleidoscopes, which I wrote ten years ago, in 2014: « Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image ».
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