"A feature-length AI film on obsolete media, algorithmic warfare and the persistence of images."
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The Hypergaussian Wars is an AI-generated feature-length audiovisual work exploring algorithmic warfare, obsolete media and the transformation of images through repetition, saturation and collapse. Built from thousands of generated images, synthetic landscapes and references to 14th–16th century painting, the film stages a continuous conflict between historical visual culture and contemporary computational systems. Fragments of obsolete video games, ruined architectures, military simulations and post-human figures circulate through increasingly unstable environments. Rather than telling a linear story, the film operates as an image system in which visual excess progressively erodes meaning. The Hypergaussian Wars reflects on memory, obsolescence, artificial intelligence and the persistence of images after their original function has disappeared.
The Hypergaussian Wars is a haunting AI-generated odyssey through obsolete media, algorithmic warfare and the afterlife of images. Marcello Mercado transforms game ruins and historical painting into a world where beauty, violence and code collapse into one another.
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