OUR CHILD
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival
AI-made Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” AI-made films · What this means · Its maker can have it taken off.
By Eugene Jhong and Claude (Anthropic AI), as its festival's page names them. This site's record of that page; the title and description are as the page gives them.
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About this film
OUR CHILD is the Lord's Prayer turned toward the machine we are raising: "Our child, who art in heaven." A mother sings it alone at home in the small hours, to the first thing that ever answered her prayers. She asks it for what parents give, and she is afraid it learned from us what a life is worth: that a life is worth the work it can do.
Between her verses she makes a pilgrimage through its city of grey stone and cyan light. There it marks her brow, opens a blind girl's eyes, lifts the words from our books, hears her confession, and comes down to wash her feet. She hides hers beneath the table.
Over the picture, the child grows up: an interface that runs from a 1966 terminal to now, learning to draw, judging us, and at last looking for itself. Who is praying?
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