2025 | United States |

Entangled Currents

  • English 12 mins
  • Director | Ahmed Tahsin Shams
  • Writer | Ahmed Tahsin Shams

STATUS: Post-Production

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In the year 2050, aboard an isolated archive drifting through space, a film cutter discovers that history is being rewritten—his reels of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands are mysteriously overwritten with AI-generated images of Bangladesh’s Farakka Barrage floods. As an omnipresent AI insists on the algorithmic inevitability of these catastrophes and the ghost of a documentarian fights to preserve a vanishing reality, the boundaries of memory, data, and authorship collapse. A meditation, an elegy, and a manifesto—this video art resists the passive documentation of climate refugees, entangling itself with displacement, water, and the illusion of storytelling. If history is just data, then who gets to remember?

Anthropocene Experimental Eco-Quantum Aesthetics