FSO
GERMANY
2027
In May 2027, Film Spring Open comes to Görlitz: Germany, Poland and France run one lab together. For up to two weeks, filmmakers, artists and scientists work at the Kühlhaus on films with and about artificial intelligence, from first concepts through previsualisation to editing, colour and sound.
Görlitz, one of the most used film sets in Europe, meets a region that is preparing to measure the universe. The lab asks what happens to the ghosts of both when machines begin to compute images, voices and whole worlds.
Want to be part of it?
Write to info@rashomotion.com.
The open call follows.
FSO GERMANY 2027 · GÖRLITZ · MAY
KÜHLHAUS GÖRLITZ
MAY 2027
THE LAB
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THE LINE OF THOUGHT
DECODING THE GHOSTS
IN|OUT THE MACHINES
A FILM CITY FULL OF BORROWED STORIES
MEETS A REGION ABOUT TO MEASURE THE UNIVERSE
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Görlitz has been Paris, Vienna and the Grand Budapest Hotel. Here the shoemaker and mystic Jakob Böhme wrote about the ground without ground, Tschirnhaus ground his lenses nearby, and Konrad Zuse, who grew up in Hoyerswerda, later described the universe as a computing process. Between Prague and Kraków the golems wait, from Rabbi Löw to Čapek and Lem.
We bring these ghosts to the table with scientists of the DZA in cooperation with DESY and with researchers from CASUS, and ask what happens to them when machines begin to compute images, voices and worlds.
PART OF THE LAB
CALCULATING SPACE
× FERNWIRKUNG
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At the centre of the lab is our own hackathon, Calculating Space. Teams from several countries compute science-fiction worlds from real scientific data, film actors inside them in the Cinebus and turn the same data into sound at night. Every team works with a scientist at its side.
Alongside runs Fernwirkung, a soundwalk across the Kühlhaus grounds, named after Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance”.
Both projects have their own pages in the menu.
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FSO Germany grows with its participants. Send us your ideas for the lab’s manifesto and for the hackathon, as participants did in Kraków. The lab works like a bazaar: everyone brings something, everyone takes something home.
Participants stay on site: in tents on the Kühlhaus grounds, in rooms in the Atelierhaus or in garage rooms with two single beds each. Prices depend on the option and follow with the open call. Meals are cooked together in a shared kitchen by rotating teams.
Supporting members of Rashomon e.V. keep the lab going beyond May. Write to info@rashomotion.com and become one of them.