"The Silo Epoch" is an experimental film that combines AI-generated video with real-life footage. Initiating in Karamay, an industrial city that rose to prominence due to oil extraction, the film explores the archaeology of industrial history and extends it into a sci-fi vision of the future. Shot in the city, the wind-eroded mountains of the Gobi Desert, the underwater spaces of marble mines, and industrial factories, the film draws on the metaphor of the "underground silo" from Hugh Howey's "Wool" to construct a geographical environment intertwined with historical remnants and futuristic visions.

 

In the film, rats, cattle, dogs, and microorganisms gradually become the guides of the narrative. They respond to the environment with their own rhythms and orders, symbolising an alternative time and order emerging on the margins. The AI-generated images are not simply tools, but rather "relatives" that parallel these organisms. Together with animals and microorganisms, they form a transspecies and cross-media perceptual network, responding to and extending a dimension of existence that defies the linearity of human history. From this perspective of "Making Kin with the Machine", "The Silo Epoch" interweaves humans, nature and technology in the same network, and imagines possible symbiosis and transformation in the future in the tension between confinement and openness. 

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