Alina Bardavid
ABOUT
Cuerpa Mostra is an experimental short film that subverts generative AI’s promise of a painless, optimized body. Operating as a synthographic somatheque, it uses a fine-tuned custom LoRA to mutate precarious materials and DIY prosthetics into a moving surface of perverted new forms, anchored by a raw soundscape of bodily exhaustion. This collision between the sterile digital gaze and the agonizing reality of chronic pain forges an impossible body, a visceral, synthetic monster that refuses to hide its scars.
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PROCESS
Handcrafted prosthetic bodies were assembled by using silicone membranes molded from cornstarch and makeup, hair, toy eyes and toy tongues, servo motors with clumsy, graceless movement. These constructions were then recorded, fed as data into open-source generative models (Stable Diffusion 1.5 and AnimateDiff) and run through a custom-trained LoRA. I used both t The resulting short film operates as a generative, longitudinal vomit, a “video-surface” where montage is not driven by traditional narrative cuts, but by the violent, direct transformation of textures, colors, and shapes. In this tactile, almost haptic film, the flicker of the AI acts as a sutured wound, interpolating between frames with a logic that constantly breaks and bleeds. One frame glues to the next to generate an uninterrupted, aberrant topography. An imploded body where hair turns into plastic, plastic melts into skin, and skin stiffens into cardboard.
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