

The Computer Accent
Nominees and Awards
Synopsis
The film follows the independent pop group YACHT as they employ cutting-edge data analysis tools, machine learning, neural networks, sci-instruments, and generative composition strategies to create a new kind of human-machine album. The band, non-coders with a DIY background, struggle with complex new concepts and unintuitive tools as they attempt to find their own path through the brave new world of machine intelligence. By putting AI to the test in the name of art, YACHT asks probing questions about the future of music, and ultimately question their own roles in a future where software anticipates, generates, and synthesizes human work.
Team

Director
Riel ROCH-DECTER
Sebastian PARDO and Riel ROCH-DECTER founded MEMORY at the start of 2014 and together have produced and distributed award-winning fiction and non-fiction films. In 2016, MEMORY was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and in 2020 MEMORY was awarded the Cinereach Producing Award for their work in “shaping new ways of filmmaking”. MEMORY’s latest production, Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere, won a Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation at Sundance 2021.

Director
Sebastian PARDO
Sebastian PARDO and Riel ROCH-DECTER founded MEMORY at the start of 2014 and together have produced and distributed award-winning fiction and non-fiction films. In 2016, MEMORY was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and in 2020 MEMORY was awarded the Cinereach Producing Award for their work in “shaping new ways of filmmaking”. MEMORY’s latest production, Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere, won a Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation at Sundance 2021.