Nearest Neighbor is an essay film that explores the relationships and intersections between humans, birds and artificial intelligence.
Playfully intertwining associated experiments in image and sound generation using AI, the film focuses particularly on language acquisition and mimicry between humans, birds and machines, asking fundamental questions about consciousness, learning and understanding.
2023 · 22:58 · HD · Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin
Clever Hans Studio. Distributed by Video Data Bank and Light Cone.
Selected Screenings
- April 2023 — Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland (world premiere)
- 2023 — Göteborg Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
- November 2023 — Artifacts, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois (with Lossless #3, Detour de Force, and Artifact #1)
- Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure, Italy
- Artificial Atmospheres and Unexpected Media, Lisbon, Portugal
- Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA
- ATA, San Francisco, USA
- ICDOCS 2024, Iowa City, USA
- MUFF 2024, Milwaukee, USA
- San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, USA
- BAMPFA, Berkeley, USA
- Curtocircuto, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- October 2025 — Unfolding Visions, REDCAT, Los Angeles
- February 2026 — The Films of Rebecca Baron, La Lumière Collective, Montreal
- May 2026 — Seeing and Believing: Caltech Artists-in-Residence Screening, Pasadena