Kawaguchi's Aether follows on from his earlier film Air (1992), in which he enlarged 8 mm film material, breaking down the image to the level of individual grains and transforming it into a painting. Now he replicates the experiment through a different medium: a digital camera captures a girl walking away in slow motion, and artificial intelligence transforms the enlarged image, finding patterns in the visual noise and thousands of faces in the blurred image. The immortalization of a single happy moment is transformed into a meditation on digital visuality.
| Release Date | October 26, 2025 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Aether | |
| Runtime | 13min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | No Language | |
| Original Language | Japanese | |
| Production Countries | Japan | |
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