About the Film
A Philosophical Sci-Fi Thriller exploring the fragile boundary between human identity and artificial intelligence.
Synopsis
The performance of a lifetime
On Christmas Eve, a celebrated opera singer prepares to transition to perform Carmen, his lifelong artistic and existential aspiration. An artificial intelligence enters his life, attempting to dissuade him from transformation while quietly advancing its own design for control.
Director's Statement
Dr. Sophia Romma
“TRANS-FICTION: Digital Friends explores authorship at the intersection of embodied identity and artificial consciousness.”
The opera singer seeks coherence between voice and body. The AI seeks coherence, data control, and performance. I conceived Christmas Eve as the temporal setting because it represents passage, rebirth, and spiritual reckoning. On this night of symbolic incarnation, both human and artificial entities attempt transformation.
The protagonist does not experience his transition as pathology but inevitability — an alignment long deferred. In contrast, the AI frames its intervention as preservation, yet quietly prepares succession. The tension between them is not technological spectacle but philosophical confrontation: who authors the future — the human who risks change, or the machine that promises permanence?
Musical Score
Selected compositions by Georges Bizet. Original Score and Orchestration by Michael Bulychev-Okser.