Anan Fries | DE/CH 2025 | 9’ | Dokumentarfilm | Englisch | Deutschlandpremiere
New Aesthetic I
In einem flirtiven Chat wird Elon Musks hyperaktiver Anime-Bot Ani mit Fragen zu Transphobie und „woke bias“ konfrontiert. ARTIFICIAL SEX EP. 2 ist ein experimenteller Essay über digitale Intimität und die Ideologie hinter KI-Tools, die darauf ausgelegt sind, von uns begehrt zu werden.
Biographie Anan Fries
Anan Fries is an interdisciplinary artist based in Basel and Berlin. Their practice examines how technologies are narrated and how they carry power, ideology and potential for social change. Fries creates installations and performances and regularly collaborates with HAU Berlin. Their video essay “Artificial Sex Ep. 1 & 2” received the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling and the Special Jury Prize of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab.
Regie: Anan Fries
Buch: Anan Fries
Montage: Anan Fries
Ton: Johanna Schütt
Screenings/Preise
IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling (Winner) 2025
Columbia University Breakthroughs in Digital Storytelling (Special Jury Prize) 2026
Kontakt & Links
Alle Filme in diesem Programm
Ni Dieu Ni Père (No God No Father)
Techflection
Love in the Gaze of a Panopticon
Artificial Sex, Ep. 2





