A videocall. Three men struggling to understand each other. A glance from above or maybe from somewhere else; a computer turning into the Tower of Babel. A journey into the rotten flesh of images, looking for their creator. Straining to discover something intimate about themselves in a place where bodies appear for what they are. Then, suddenly — him.

HARIEL is an Italian collective of AI filmmakers. Founded by Pietro Lafiandra, Flavio Pizzorno, and Andrea Rossini, HARIEL explores the new aesthetics informed by closed-source e open-source generative models. Their humanist manifesto for an AI-generated cinema, published on 1 April 2025, constitutes the first attempt to formalise a cultorological approach to algorithmic images.