The Language of Others

“Die Sprache der Anderen” (The Language of Others) is a speculative film about how artificial intelligence might communicate if it developed emotions and forms of perception beyond human language.

The project imagines a system of hard and soft sound waves: high, sharp frequencies transmit rational information, while lower, softer frequencies carry emotional content. Because an AI could learn and process this language autonomously, communication would take place both audibly and visually — and at a speed inaccessible to humans.

By treating language as a sensory system rather than a set of words, the film examines how artificial intelligence could reshape ideas of expression, consciousness and mutual understanding.