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This is Ourselves: An AI actor lip flap remix

This video remixes Green screen Template (An increasingly heated & snarky dialogue) by Dayna McLeod and Colleen Laird, a video essay that uses AI actors reciting a script generated by AI (based on a prompt by Ariel Avissar) that stages 2 public video essay scholars in a debate about videographic criticism.

Remixing the Green screen Template with b-roll sourced from pexels.com, this video replaces the AI script with excerpts from Under Pressure, performed by Freddy Mercury and David Bowie, to play with lip flap and focus on the embodiment of the AI actors.

Credits:
Green screen Template (An increasingly heated & snarky dialogue) by Dayna McLeod & Colleen Laird, 2023, https://vimeo.com/783462410

AI actors: Colossyan

Under Pressure, Queen and David Bowie, 1981

Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice, 1990

High-Speed Photography of Colorful Ink Diffusion in Water by cottonbro studio (2021) via pexels.com

Close-Up Shot of Red Ink Diffusion in Water by cottonbro studio (2021) via pexels.com

Thunderstorm by Pixabay (2018) via pexels.com

Thunder and Flash of Lightning by Nathan Baldwin (2020) via pexels.com