Sunday Sauce
Matt Campanella
2025, 14 mins.
Guess who’s cumming to dinner
It’s far too rare that over a very brief runtime, a filmmaker (Campanella also writer and star) is able to make seemingly endless points (here ranging from religion, infidelity, guilt, lust and, er, just desserts) employing the seemingly innocent device of an Italian family’s Sunday dinner with unexpected guests–one of whom raises much more than mild interest.
With some items apparently needing more salt (in both Italian and English), the regulation tomato sauce threatening to explode and—best of all—a covey of lobster claws that suddenly become far more erotic than even a barely anonymous cellphone Daddy/son encounter, the repeated line, “It’ll lessen your load” speaks metaphoric volumes about what is still to cum.
Do enjoy the wit and hilarity but then hope that Campanella will land a feature assignment with who knows what might be on offer for his next menu! JWR
Turing Test
Jaschar Marktanner
2025, 7 mins.
How smart is your hard drive?
The Turing test: a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human
Looking ahead to the near future, it is not difficult to believe when AI programs are not just ubiquitous in all computers but may actually take human forms (robots already well on the way to that goal). Just like fake images, memes and news, the real challenge continues to be recognizing fiction from fact.
Focussing mainly on a bot-to-bot Q&A, Marktanner lets viewers decide for themselves whether or not a Turing test will truly be able to tell the human truth from the one resting in the huge confines of LLM.
Wee bit confused? No worries, merely click the “restart” button when no one is looking, then ponder just what Beethoven’s “Moonlight” sonata has to do with the narrative. JWR