AI’s Silent Omissions
Title
AI's Silent Omissions
Materials
FHD video(24'28)
Director
KUBOTA Nozomu
Cinematography
KUROKAWA Yuki
Edit
KUROKAWA Yuki/Minami
Featuring
ASAHARA Yuki
Featuring
OOTSUKA Yuu
Featuring
Slime(Influencer,Split-Hand/Foot Malformation)
Featuring
KAWABATA Hidehiko(Director, Minami Osaka Rehabilitation Hospital for Children)
SPECIAL THANKS
Professor NAKAMURA Masato (Tokyo University of the Arts)
SPECIAL THANKS
Professor FURUKAWA Kiyoshi (Tokyo University of the Arts)
SPECIAL THANKS
Project Associate Professor KURIBARA Yoshiaki (Tokyo University of the Arts)
SPECIAL THANKS
Assistant NAGASHIMA Yui (Tokyo University of the Arts)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
SHAKIMEN
SYNOPSIS
In generative AI, hands that do not appear with five fingers are often treated as technical errors to be corrected. Engineers spend vast computational resources and energy refining models to produce “proper” hands. But can this really be described as mere error correction? Behind what AI calls an error, I began to sense the lives of minorities being excluded. This documentary film was made through conversations with people with cleft hands, their families, and medical professionals.
Award
2025 Best Humanity Film Award, ICP Entertainment Film Festival (USA)
2025 Best Short Documentary Award, Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition (USA)
2025 Best Documentary, 14th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival (India)
2026 Best Director – Short Documentary, Berlin Indie Film Festival (Germany)
2026 Best Short Film, Kaia International Film Festival (Turkey)
2026 Silver Remi Award, Shorts Documentary, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (USA)
Screening / Exhibition History
2025 CENRETA Art Award 2025 – Central Chidlom, Bangkok, Thailand
2025 14th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-25 – Tivoli Grand Resort Hotel, New Delhi, India
2025 Golden Gate International Film Festival – AMC Saratoga 14, San Jose, USA
2025 International Film Arts and Hearts Film Festival – Regal L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles, USA
2025 ICP Entertainment Film Festival – Producers Club Theater, New York, USA
2025 Tokyo Documentary Film Festival – K’s Cinema, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2026 London Lift-Off Film Festival – Genesis Cinema, London, United Kingdom
2026 Luleå International Film Festival – Folkets Bio Royal Luleå, Luleå, Sweden
2026 Berlin Indie Film Festival – Babylon, Berlin, Germany
2026 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival – Memorial City Cinemark Theatres, Houston, Texas, USA
