Turkish arthouse distributor Baska Sinema has acquired domestic theatrical rights to “A Woman Asleep,” an experimental English-language AI feature directed by pioneering artist and filmmaker Vikki Bardot. Bardot is considered one of the early practitioners of photographic AI art and video art. She delivered a TEDx talk on AI and art in 2023, and her artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Rome and Miami.
Her AI short “Dreamt by Another” screened in more than 20 festivals and was recently acquired by Mubi for Turkey. That movie, in turn, was based on Perec’s novel “A Man Asleep.” In a rare occurrence, Bardot’s 80-minute AI drama that, according to the synopsis, examines contemporary alienation and numbness in today’s world of hyper-connectivity, is set for a spring 2027 release across 20 cities in Turkey via Baska Sinema. The narration for “A Woman Asleep” is generated using an AI voice clone trained on the director’s own voice.
Edited from a pool of 50,000 individual shots, the experimental film took two years to complete. It’s giving independent filmmakers the freedom to make personal, formally ambitious films that might otherwise never get financed,” the director added. Commented Baska Sinema director Armagan Lale: “What interests us is not the technology itself, but how filmmakers use new tools to expand the expressive possibilities of cinema.” “A Woman Asleep offers a distinctive, female-centred perspective on a society shaped by technological dependency and emotional disconnection,” he added.
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