Mother Arkah

A Cinematic Allegory about the Rise and Fall of Ideologies

Place

OKP-Ferstel-Trakt

1st floor, B 4
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

Department

Graphic Design

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Head of Department: Oliver Kartak
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“Mother Arkah” is a short animated film exploring a speculative climate apocalypse scenario and the hypothesis of the posthumanist ideology of “bio-technoism.” The project investigates concepts of prohibiting the “religion of growth,” future power structures shaped within the “posthuman convergence,” AI-driven symbiogenetic evolution, and autopoietic architectures. The film serves as an allegory on the mechanisms behind political belief systems, while posing questions about how deep the “urge for innovation” is rooted within us humans and, consequently, how much humanness our planet can take.

AAA (Angewandte Abschluss Arbeiten)

Andreas Palfinger