Awase Kagami(合わせ鏡, “paired mirrors”) is a short film made for a Speculative Design course.
Theme
A meditation on apocalypse and cosmology, folding mirror imagery, self-recognition, and the futures AI envisions into one frame. When the image in the mirror shows up as “the future” or “the other,” what are we actually looking at?
Production
- 3:45 total runtime
- Machine-learning visualizations, mirror self-recognition experiment footage, and AI-generated future imagery, edited and recombined from Wikimedia Commons material
- Original material © 2026 Shohei Yoshida. Source material follows its respective licenses (CC0 / CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0)
※ Full source attributions are listed in the Vimeo description.