Soft Rains

25 minutes
Soft Rains

A sort of neo-Genesis with an AI as a new Adam & Eve, Soft Rains is a post-apocalyptic vision of a digital world, and at the same time an exploration of human loneliness and the power of artistic creation through the lens of an artificial being. 

In a post-apocalyptic future, an archeologist attempts to reconstruct the accounts of an artificial intelligence that was locked into a computer simulation in a struggle between humans and machines.

The film's title refers to There Will Come Soft Rains, a short poem by Sara Teasdale published in reaction to WWI and the 1918 Flu Pandemic about nature's establishment of a new peaceful order that will be indifferent to the outcome of the war or mankind's extinction.

This program is free of charge and runs continuously during the opening hours of the library.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

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Soft Rains

Soft Rains

  • Johannes Duncker
  • Germany, 2021
  • 24 min.

SOFT RAINS is an exploration of human loneliness and the power of artistic creation through the lens of artificial being.

In a post-apocalyptic future, an archaeologist attempts to reconstruct the accounts of an artificial
intelligence that was locked into a computer simulation in a struggle between humans and
machines.