fried eggs
and rockets
Experimental Response Cinema
Hyperreal Film Club, Austin, TX
Sept 17, 2025
Hyperreal Film Club, Austin, TX
Sept 17, 2025
Fried Eggs and Rockets, 2025, 6:45 minutes, HD video, courtesy the artist
Working from a home office, a woman is programmed to either talk to an AI about eggs and rockets, or look out the window where she sees a deer dying in childbirth in a hot landscape. So, she talks to the AI. She says…
Fried Eggs and Rockets reflects on the futures we are programming into being, and the fragile lives that hang in the balance. Inspired by a SpaceX rocket launch, the dialog is an edited version of a long-term conversation with ChatGPT. In this work, AI is a tool of production and a concept. An experimental film created with 3D modeling, CGI, and generative AI tools, this video explores fragile ecologies, technological mythologies, and the relationship between care and destruction.
Fried Eggs and Rockets reflects on the futures we are programming into being, and the fragile lives that hang in the balance. Inspired by a SpaceX rocket launch, the dialog is an edited version of a long-term conversation with ChatGPT. In this work, AI is a tool of production and a concept. An experimental film created with 3D modeling, CGI, and generative AI tools, this video explores fragile ecologies, technological mythologies, and the relationship between care and destruction.