2025
Premiered at Tribeca Immersive Film Festival
The Innocence of Unknowing investigates news media coverage of mass shootings in the United States since the 1960s. This immersive essay film - performed live by Ryat Yezbick, Milo Talwani, and the AI humanities scholar they built - takes viewers back in time to examine how we have arrived at the horrific reality of rampant gun violence in America today. Created from an archive of news media footage sourced by the artists, The Innocence of Unknowing examines our role as spectators of mass shootings while illustrating the history of the evolving media landscape — from TV to phones to social media — through which we make sense of the violence. This project is the first of its kind to examine our historical relationship to eyewitness news through the lens of AI.
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The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
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Workers Fleeing the Factory in MIMESIS Magazine
grip at other others // rehearsals in the skin at Human Resources
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
Recent
Workers Fleeing the Factory in MIMESIS Magazine
grip at other others // rehearsals in the skin at Human Resources
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.