Credits
Director, Animator, Editor, Scriptwriter: Veneta Androva
Music: Nadia D’Alò & Benedikt Frey
Voice: Vivienne Pettitt
Supported by the Bulgarian Fund for Women
AIVA is the winner of the following awards
2022
Willi Münzenberg Forum – 1st prize in category “film”
2021
Golden Horseman For Animated Film In International Competition, 33. Filmfest Dresden
LUCA Gender Diversity Film Award In International And National Competition, 33. Filmfest Dresden
Prix Ars Electronica, Award Of Distinction in category ‘Computer Animation’, International Competition of CyberArts
Synopsis
Meet AIVA – the female humanoid artist. She is in her mid-thirties, young and beautiful. But not only that, she is also unbelievably creative. This female AI artist, who was designed by a cis-male engineering team, has the task of contributing more diversity to the art world and to offer a female perspective.
AIVA is studying the male nude, preparing preliminary sketches for her next masterpiece. Exploring different postures in male nude painting, she is examining masculinity in its diverse forms and shapes.
The film has been screened and exhibited at the following:
2022
65. DOK Leipzig, part of the program ‘Animation Perspectives’ (DE)
15. Filmzeit | Das Allgäuer Autorenfilmfestival (DE)
Exhibition/Award Ceremony, Willi Münzenberg Forum Berlin (DE)
KÜNSTLICH Short film program, curated by FILMFEST DRESDEN, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (DE)
Image + Bias. Filmic Explorations Short film program, curated by Goethe Institute San Francisco, part of IMAGE + BIAS project
2021
25. PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights And Film Festival Official Selection for the Shorts Alternatives program (EE)
EthicAI=FORUM 2021, Goethe-Institutes in Athens, Bucharest, Ankara, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb.
38. Kassel Documentary Film And Video Festival Official Selection (DE)
15. Short Film Festival Cologne Official Selection, German Competition (DE)
29. Blicke Filmfestival Des Ruhrgebiets Official Selection, German Competition (DE)
31. Message To Man | International Film Festival selected for the curated program ‘In Memory of the Future’ (RU)
5th Visionär Filmfestival Berlin Official Selection (DE)
17th International Experimental Film And Video Festival 25 FPS Official Selection, Competition (HR)
Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2021 – A New Digital Deal (AT)
CyberArts 2021 Exhibition (AT)
FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival Official Selection, Balkan Competition program (SVN)
LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation And Media Art Festival Official Selection, non competitive experimental animation program (UKR)
FILMFEST DRESDEN International Short Film Festival Official Selection International Short Film Competition (DE)
VIDEOABEND Kurze Emotionen, Motorenhalle Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden (DE)
Short Waves Festival selected for the program Focus:Mirror Mirror, (PL)
Short Film Festival Hamburg Official Selection German Competition (DE)
Facing B group exhibition, curated by Stephan Koal at Espacio Minimo Gallery, Madrid (ES)
FLATPACK Festival, Official Selection Short Film Competition (UK)
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen Official Selection European Competition (NL)
Sofia International Film Festival, Official Selection Bulgarian Short Film Competition (BG)
Hungry Eyes Festival, Official Selection, Gießen (DE)
2020
63. DOK Leipzig, Official Selection German Competition Short Film (DE)
Everything Is Just Fine (With Us), Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia (BG)