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BIUFF — Berlin International Underground Film Festival
Poster for Neural Notes

No. 59 · AI Short

Neural Notes

Directed by Giorgio Gerardi

Italy · 3 min

"Neural Notes" imagines what thought sounds like. As branching synapses pulse and transform on screen, brain impulses become rhythms and shifting harmonies, inviting the viewer to experience the mind’s internal motion as pure sound.

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Streams 21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026, Berlin time. Every ticket is one Audience Award vote.

Trailer

About the film

Neural Notes grows out of a simple question: what does the rhythm of our minds actually feel like? On screen, branching shapes move like synapses and dendrites, pulsing as if electrical signals were racing through them. I wasn't after a scientific illustration, those connections become music instead. Every impulse turns into a note, the pulses set the rhythm, and the visual patterns shifting over time trace out harmonies that evolve right along with them. Beyond the biology, the piece looks at thought as an open network, a living system, always in motion, where ideas and memories quietly reorganize themselves. It's a way of tracing those invisible ties that shape, without us really noticing, how we see the world. With Neural Notes I wanted to give this inner activity a body: to let sound and image breathe together, so we can just sit and watch a thought take shape.

Runtime
3 min
Category
AI Short
Country
Italy
Year
2025
Language
No dialogue (Music only)
Aspect ratio
16:9

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Giorgio Gerardi

Giorgio Gerardi

I work between images and sound, photography, video, experimental music, following how perception and technology turn ordinary details into abstract, atmospheric experience. I came to it through the early-twentieth-century avant-gardes, and how they took the visual medium apart rather than describing reality. Lately I've been working with color, form, and everyday objects, bringing AI into my video and photographic series. I've made several short films, many have won awards at international festivals. I've also released three albums of electronic and ambient music, all mine from composition to production. It all lives on my website and in events, online and off.

Credits

Directed by
Giorgio Gerardi
Written by
Giorgio Gerardi
Produced by
Giorgio Gerardi
Cinematography
Giorgio Gerardi
Editing
Giorgio Gerardi
Sound
Giorgio Gerardi
Music
Giorgio Gerardi
Principal cast
N/A (Purely visual / No actors)

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Visit my page https://www.giorgiogerardi.com/about/

Neural Notes is part of the Official Selection of the BIUFF Founding Edition 2026.