FAC-TOTUM

Submitted By: Marko Zubak (YM)

FAC-TOTUM, from Latin, is "do everything" (Latin: fac totum). In English, it refers to an entity that does everything, someone capable or willing to do everything on their own, suitable for any task, a reliable one to whom any job can be entrusted. In an ironic sense, it can also describe someone who meddles in everything, imposes on others, and does everything according to their own agenda. The protagonists of the film are Mlibty Shadows. The film is in big part assembled from shorter video pieces from Mlibty Shadows series I was creating during the last two years, using various AI tools. Some of those videos are tokenized on SuperRare. Mlibty Shadows represent people in general, but also shadows behind the curtains, invisible inhabitants you never meet, but you feel their presence. Sometimes they are watching you, sometimes they smile, black and white. They have no hands and no legs, just black bodies with white faces. This video also vaguely deals with the idea of Alpha Inheritors, inhabitants of the post-MLIBTY-Shadows era governed by AI. The idea and text for this film come from the perception of the computer and cyborg era some sixty years ago (when such new words were coined) comparing it to AI now, and the idea of textual prompts dispersed as hieroglyphs all around latent space. The text got its final shape through the conversation with ChatGPT.