MegatrashwannabebigstarXD

An interview session that keeps going off track. In MegatrashwannabebigstarxD, a person asks questions, but the answers come from a language model trained on five years of private chats. It sounds intimate and strange at the same time: as if your own self is talking back to you in the language of the Internet. Two synthetic voices adopt persona, defence and attack; in between, text-to-image and image-to-video fragments flicker in the style of non-linear short-form aesthetics. Expectations, sexism and stereotypes are embedded in the data and in the performance; everything is both pose and risk. The film asks what becomes of the “self”’ when it is reconstructed from chats: appropriation of your own material or normative projection? And who claims authorship when the machine always gets to have a say? (Ariana Dongus)

Ava Leandra Kleber, born 1997 in Mannheim, studies art and media at the HfG Offenbach and works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Using AI systems, she reveals their inherent, systemic and socially oppressive structures – distorted representations of bodies and role models – in works shown at the B3 Biennale, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba (CUB), Erratum Gallery in Brussels (BE) and Berlin, Tbilisi (GEO), Valinhos (BRA), as well as in research and organised activism, in publications, panels and talks.

Elisa Deutloff, born 1998 in Lich, is an art student in Offenbach. She explores themes such as identity, surveillance and media representation. Her work has been exhibited at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba (CU), the MAK Frankfurt, the Martin Asbæk Gallery (DK), the saasfee* pavillon (GER) and the Sisters Room (GEO), among others. She has also collaborated on three AI research projects at the HfG Offenbach, where she currently works as a tutor in the field of electronic media.

Directors Ava Leandra Kleber, Elisa Deutloff. Editing Elisa Deutloff, Ava Leandra Kleber. Music Elisa Deutloff. Sound Design Elisa Deutloff, Ava Leandra Kleber. Producers Ava Leandra Kleber, Elisa Deutloff.

Films

Ava Leandra Kleber: 2023: Hosts of a Scraped Pulse (short film). 2024: W in the Wild (short film), FleshFest (short film), The Tale of Burnt Skin (short film). 2025: it’s plastic, bro (short film), Wie es dieser Kuh wohl geht? (short film), Women and Mold grow in the Dark (short film), Ecolala wants to talk about the Beauty of Nature (short film). 2026: MegatrashwannabebigstarXD.

Elisa Deutloff: 2026: MegatrashwannabebigstarXD.