Each Untitled Film Still is a frame from an imagined film. A film is a perspective from which to view the world, and a set of Untitled Film Still images is a unique view into alternate reality. This work was generated in 2019 using custom-trained GANs, and it was finished in 2023.

Untitled Film Stills by Casey REAS

Compressed Cinema is the series title for five audiovisual works completing in 2020. The images were created by Casey REAS, and each work has a stereo audio track composed by Jan St. Werner. The Compressed Cinema digital videos were created in the tradition of experimental films that use existing films as raw materials. The Compressed Cinema videos are an inversion of Ken Jacobs 1969 film Tom, Tom, the Pipers Son, which expanded the short 1905 film of the same name from 8 to 115 minutes through meticulous rephotography, repetition, and editing. In contrast, each Compressed Cinema video distills a feature-length film into a work of less than ten minutes. A Compressed Cinema video is a complete reimaging of a film through a process of transformation and editing. The collection of five videos created to date are the result of over three years of experimentation and developing new techniques for creating cinematic media with generative adversarial networks (GANs).