After eight months of research, three investigative journalists have succeeded in identifying the perpetrators responsible for destroying the Nord Stream pipelines. With this film, the team is going public for the first time to present their evidence.
Andromeda – Who destroyed Nord Stream?
Mockumentary
2023
6 min.
German, Englisch ST
In 2022, the hype surrounding image-generating AI sparked public debate. Words were now able to wash photorealistic representations from the depths of latent space onto our surface. The emergence of “AI photos” was often portrayed as a threat to photography. AI-generated images were blamed for the potential loss of authenticity in photographic images.
The film deals with the relationship between image and authenticity. The focus is not on the loss of authenticity in photography due to AI images, but on the question of whether photographs can be authentic at all. This exploration led to a fictional documentary that reproduces narrative and aesthetic conventions in an exemplary manner in order to argue that images do not speak but are read.
Festivals
IM KASTEN – Short Film Festival Lüneburg. Germany, 2024.
20minmax – International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt. Germany, 2024.
44. European Film Festival Göttingen. Germany, 2023.
SHORTS – Trinational Film Festival Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. Germany, 2023.
Credits
The characters, plot and facts in this film are inspired by real events, but are fictional.
A film by Niklas Poweleit
Narrator Imme Beccard
Anita Schreiner Alicja Boß
Lara Jansen Friederike Luithle
Markus Neumann Niklas Mehne
Fictional neighbours Frieda Theiss (anonymised), Joey Lose
Fictional arrest Ben Ambrosius, Paul Maurer (anonymised), Andreas Maiwald, Niklas Poweleit
Prompt Engineering Chris Knall, Lenard Requate, Niklas Poweleit
Fictional 3D scans Blender 3.6.1 LTS
Manuel G Stable-Diffusion-V1-5-Pruned.Saftensors, NP-KI-Model_Niklas-Mix_V1.Lora, Niklas Poweleit
Fictional evidence pictures Stable-Diffusion-V1-5-Pruned.Saftensors, Kswx-Underwater_V2.CKPT, Adobe Photoshop
Sound Mix + Master Yannic Poweleit
Props Johanna Schäfers, Maren Becker, Ansgar Alber, Friederike Luithle
Subtitles Anis Balliel
Thank you Digital Video Klasse, Filmzirkel Hannover, Luca Menze, Gabriel Dörner
Other works
Niklas Poweleit