The boundary-pushing pop group YACHT explores the intersection of art, technology, and human intuition in Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo’s documentary The Computer Accent.
The documentary which world premiered at CPH:DOX 2022, opens in theaters on October 21 – New York at Metrograph (With Live Performance), November 17 in San Francisco (Roxie Theater), and Los Angeles (LAEMMLE Theaters) including: Laemmle Noho, Laemmle Glendale, Laemmle Newhall, Laemmle Monica.
The Computer Accent is a documentary following the boundary-pushing pop group YACHT as they try something terrifying and new: handing over the reins of their entire creative process to artificial intelligence. Working with technologists and leading AI researchers, YACHT uses cutting-edge data analysis tools, machine learning, neural networks, sci-fi instruments, and generative composition strategies to create a new kind of human-machine album—music, lyrics, artwork, videos, and all. Putting AI to the test in the name of art, YACHT are guides through the brave new world of machine intelligence. Along the way, they’ll question their own roles in a future where software anticipates, generates, and synthesizes human work.
Watch a trailer clip from The Computer Accent
Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter founded MEMORY at the start of 2014 and together have produced and distributed award-winning fiction and non-fiction films. They have collaborated with multi-hyphenate filmmakers and artists to bring their debut films to fruition, such as: Celia Rowlson-Hall’s MA, Carson Mell’s Another Evil, Dean Fleischer-Camp’s FRAUD, Theo Anthony’s Rat Film, Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s Crestone and Zia Anger’s My First Film project. In 2016, MEMORY was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and in 2020 MEMORY was awarded the Cinereach Producing Award for their work in “shaping new ways of filmmaking.” MEMORY’s latest production, Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere won a Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation at Sundance 2021. The Computer Accent, which world premiered at CPH:DOX 2022, is their debut feature film as a directing team.
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