Compressed Cinema presents the complete works from Reas’ acclaimed, Untitled Film Stills and is accompanied by a companion text generated in response to the images by Allison Parrish.

“Each Untitled Film Still image is a frame from an imagined film,” REAS says. “The idea is to reveal another reality within the original film, something that has the character of the original work, but is transformed into something else. A film is a perspective from which to view the world, and a set of Untitled Film Still images are a unique view of the original film that produces a new and alternate reality in an unexpected way.”

Untitled Films Stills were created with Deep Convolutional GANs (DCGAN) and Progressive Growing of GANs (PGAN). The text by Allison Parrish consists of ekphrastic unravelings of Casey’s images, produced through a conceptual inversion of his process. Parrish first composes dense, minimalist descriptions of each image spread, and then used the mask-filling functionality of Facebook AI’s BART model to iteratively “uncompress” those descriptions.