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Myths We Call Bodies + Q&A
Institute of Contemporary Arts
ARIA 夢姬, dir. Yu Shien and Jin Keon, Taiwan/Canada 2025, 7mins

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ARIA 夢姬, dir. Yu Shien and Jin Keon, Taiwan/Canada 2025, 7mins
A female AI agent on the verge of being decommissioned shares a haunting final dialogue.

GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, dir. Charmaine Poh, Singapore 2023, 6mins
Revived through deepfake technology, the eternally twelve-year-old E-Ching returns to unsettle the gendered gaze that first scripted her.

Macho Mystic Meltdown: Oikouménē, dir. Natasha Tontey, Indonesia 2025, 6mins
This speculative anthology film navigates ancestral memory and technology-induced hallucinations.

War Dance, dir. Inhwa Yeom | South Korea | 2025 | 8mins
Korean myth and AI collide to question the systems shaping gendered bodies and social roles.

Ode to the Centaur, dir. Chenshuo Xu, China 2023, 7mins
Masculinities and their representation in ancient mythology are explored through experiments in 3D space.
 
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Thu, 14 May 2026
Cinema 1
06:30 pm
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