Congo Mercs
Made with Paolo Cirio:
generated video standing in as evidence for something that has no footage.
Cirio works on power, privacy, and which images get to count as documentation. The project uses AI-generated video to reconstruct what was never filmed, and asks what that reconstruction is worth.
We built the generation pipeline and produced the video work.
Generated sequences from the project.
Making synthetic footage for an artist who investigates evidence is an uncomfortable position, deliberately.
The work does not try to pass. It stays visibly generated, because the argument only holds if you can see the seam.