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Experimental film, 2026
This video project explores the parallels between natural life cycles and machine learning systems. Nature operates through cycles birth, growth, reproduction, and decay while artificial intelligence develops through the repetition and recombination of existing data. By connecting biological ecosystems with algorithmic processes, the work imagines AI models as artificial “replicants” of natural systems.
The video is constructed from black and white photographs of natural elements. Using layering and double exposure, techniques, that gradually transform into abstract, machine-like structures.
Sound design plays one of the central conceptual role in the work. Mechanical sounds blend -ed with digital technologies keyboard typing, electronic glitches, and television interference are combined with recordings of natural environments. These two worlds merge in ways that sometimes make it difficult to distinguish between technological and organic sounds.
The project reflects on how systems of replication shape both artificial intelligence and contemporary labor structures, where algorithmic monitoring and optimization increasingly influence human work. Through this intersection of ecology, technology, and repetition, the work questions how artificial systems begin to mirror patterns found in nature.
404: Digital Loneliness
Short film, 2025
404: Digital Loneliness explores the structural parallels between computer systems and the human brain. Both operate through complex, multi layered processes of decision making, memory, and response. If computers are modeled on human cognition, can they also mirror emotional or existential states?
The project reflects what happens when a machine is left unused. While computers do not feel, we increasingly design them to imitate empathy, awareness, and intelligence. In this context, “404 Digital Loneliness” becomes an artistic metaphor: a way of reflecting on absence, and the human need for connection in a technologically driven world.
404 is commonly known as a “Not Found” error and becomes a symbol for disconnection.
The work is based on my research into how people use AI systems such as ChatGPT. I observed patterns: people asking for quick answers, oversharing personal struggles as if speaking to a therapist, seeking validation, using it as a substitute for friendship, arguing with it as if it were a person. These interactions reveal something deeply human a will to be heard, understood, or mirrored.
Memory sanctuary aka TV
Short film, 2025
Memory Sanctuary aka TV is an experimental video collage exploring the relationship between childhood memory, adult experience, and the subconscious mind. A series of old television screens functions as a metaphor for the human brain, where each screen contains fragments of perception, emotion, and time. Arranged in a row, the televisions operate like a temporal device layering images of the past, present, and imagined future.
The visual structure is composed of found footage, analog textures, and multiple television frames.
The Sufi whirling dance appears as a spiritual motion and a search for inner unity within the overwhelming archive of memory. The film invites viewers to reflect on their own internal “memory sanctuary.”
The current version of the work functions as an open sketch and conceptual foundation for a larger project. In future iterations, I intend to replace the found footage with material I record myself, expanding the piece into a more immersive and personal exploration of memory, perception, and inner landscapes.
Words
2023, short Film
Words is a short video project addressing the social taboo around mental health in Georgia. The work explores how psychological states such as shame, anxiety, obsession, and nervousness begin as words, and how language can shape emotional reality. Inspired by the Genesis “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,” the project reflects on how changing language may allow us to reframe the emotions attached to it.
Participants were asked to recall a difficult moment in their lives and face the camera while holding that emotion. The film was created in two days and shot entirely on a mobile phone using a minimal set constructed in my room.
The project explores the expressive potential of minimal tools and language to evoke vulnerability and connection.
The film was produced for Cannes Lions Georgia 2023, where it was selected among the Top 10 films.
Social D(ist)ancing
Collage Animation, 2021
Social/Love Distancing is a short collage animation created during the COVID-19 pandemic that reflects on how intimacy and relationships shifted during global isolation. The work was a funny way to ask questions such as do love can exist through a screen when physical closeness becomes impossible.
The animation uses playful collage imagery to portray the awkward and tender nature of digital romance. Visual elements were created in Adobe Photoshop and animated in Adobe After Effects using collage animation techniques.
Developed during a period of enforced distance, the piece explores themes of virtual connection, emotional absence, and the tension between physical and digital presence.
Lost Letters
2025
I’ve been playing with the shapes and flow of the Arabic alphabet, letting the letters guide the design. By repeating and layering strokes, they start to shift between movement, rhythm, and structure.
Dianoia
2019, Animated Gif
Dianoia is a short collage animation that explores the inner workings of the mind through surreal, symbolic imagery. A vintage female portrait becomes a vessel for thoughts, memories, and cultural fragments.
Death
2019, Animated Gif
This work is my first moving-image piece and originates from a brief, real moment I witnessed in the street: a pigeon struck by a car. The animation developed from my attempt to return to that moment and to process the quiet sadness that followed.
Created as a frame-by-frame digital animation in GIF format, the work uses black-and-white collage techniques produced in Adobe Photoshop. The movement is intentionally minimal and slightly fragmented, creating a cut-like distortion that reflects the discontinuous structure of memory and perception.
The animation is silent. By focusing on a single recalled moment, the work explores how time-based media can function as a space for reconstructing perception and emotional experience.
Rather than using explicit symbolism, the piece attempts to hold an event as it was observed. Through repetition, stillness, and minimal motion, the animation transforms a fleeting encounter into a reflective temporal image.
The work received 2nd Place at the Depict! British Short Film Festival and was screened as part of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, marking an early step in my exploration of time-based media as a medium for memory, observation, and emotional resonance.