Post-documentary cinema
The space between the real and its fabrication.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis — Artist & Filmmaker
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis — Artist & Filmmaker
A young man created over a hundred online personas from his bedroom in Florida. He was simultaneously a white supremacist, a radical Islamist, a feminist blogger, a GamerGate troll. The FBI arrested him in 2015.
Joshua is the first inhabitant of latent space.
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A woman survives a bombing but remembers nothing. The film reconstructs fragmented memory through point clouds and absence.
Online violence filmed inside video game engines. The wireframe as documentary tool.
People who cannot be filmed. Making images bleed to represent the invisible.
Generative AI documentary. One hundred personas, one room, one screen.
"It does not document the real. It documents the space between the real and its fabrication — using the same tools of fabrication as its formal grammar."
Research, writing, shooting, and editing happen simultaneously and contaminate each other. They are not stages. They are states of a continuous flow.
AI is not a tool. It is a force of productive friction — alteration rather than augmentation.
The latent space is a documentary territory.
A foundational text on the practice of making documentary films after the collapse of photographic evidence.
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