Climate Control
A metafictional comedy about the intersection of the climate crisis and generative AI. A director making a documentary about the perils of fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story.
Made in collaboration with my Gen Z students, the film looks at generational responses to the climate crisis through an absurdist lens, connecting the extraction of natural resources to the extraction of our human data and the extraction of our attention in this post-information era. Through grant support from Cal Poly Humboldt, 30 students were hired at professional rates and occupied all production roles both in front of and behind the camera.
