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The screening room

Every finished film, in one room.

30 films29 minutes in allCaptions on every one

Imagined with AI The Century’s WorksNow showing · 2:00 Imagined with AI The trailerNow showing · 0:30

The American Works

Four films of two minutes

The exhibition
Play the film: The Century’s WorksOne American day, coast to coast · 2:00 Play the film: Near InfiniteWarmth, and answers · 2:00 Play the film: A Year in Our TownOne hillside, four seasons · 2:00 Play the film: The CommonsThe rooms inside · 2:00

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

The American Works

Four shorts

Made tall, for a phone. Under a minute each.

Play the film: Without / WithinThe anthem · 0:52 Play the film: ElementalHow it works · 0:36 Play the film: JanuaryThe night film · 0:44 Play the film: Your Town, Three FuturesThe building down the road · 0:47

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

The American Works

The Six

One film of twenty seconds for each movement: the outside, the door, the inside.

The six movements
Terraced round pools of pale blue water on a white structure above the clouds, with a tall plume of steam and small figures walking the rims at dawn. A plateau of warm pools. Play the film: 01 · 0:20Thermal A vast pale wall in pink dawn cloud with one tall glowing arched door, and a line of small figures walking toward it. A white wall, and one door. Play the film: 02 · 0:20The Sealed Order Clusters of slender white towers carrying two rings, with a glowing glass sphere held between them above the clouds, and small figures on a pale plaza. A lantern above the clouds. Play the film: 03 · 0:20Served & Servant A luminous ring roof on slender columns over a round plaza full of people, on a green hill in morning mist. A circle of light over the town. Play the film: 04 · 0:20Civic Green hills at dawn with a long glowing glass ridge along one crest, mist in the valleys, and a few small figures. Hills that are the building. Play the film: 05 · 0:20Landform A glass block in a city square at blue hour, filled with vertical tubes in blue, yellow, orange and green, with a crowd standing before it on wet paving. Everything in the open. Play the film: 06 · 0:20Expressed Plant

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectThe places and the buildings are imagined. What the films say, sourced

An earlier season

Made in an earlier voice

Before The American Works there was a serial about one invented town, and a series that checked one number at a time. They are shown here as they were made.

Fiction · made with AI

Cooper’s Mill · ten episodes

The exhibition
Play the film: The LetterEpisode 1 · 0:56 Play the film: MiltonEpisode 2 · 0:57 Play the film: The BillEpisode 3 · 1:23 Play the film: One GigawattEpisode 4 · 1:11 Play the film: The Quiet PartEpisode 5 · 1:15 Play the film: The Front DoorEpisode 6 · 1:18 Play the film: In WritingEpisode 7 · 1:10 Play the film: The RiskEpisode 8 · 1:21 Play the film: The VoteEpisode 9 · 1:12 Play the film: The RoofEpisode 10 · 1:32

Fiction, made with AI · the numbers are real, and each has a sourceEvery figure in the story, sourced

Made with AI

Check the Number · five numbers

The exhibition
Play the film: No. 1 1.4% 0:43The empty-buildings check Play the film: No. 2 50 0:43The jobs number, said proudly Play the film: No. 3 80.5¢ 0:49What the taxes did Play the film: No. 4 38–46% 0:47True against us, said anyway Play the film: No. 5 0.26 mL 0:37The water-bottle teardown

Made with AI: type on paper, and an AI voice · the numbers are real, and each has a sourceEvery number, sourced