When I dreamed of Electric Sheep

A film By Diana Kim

Attend a Premiere:

Dance canvas on film Screening

3.21.26 4:30PM
Atlanta, Georgia
Rialto Center for the Arts

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Seattle family and Friends Screening

4.18.26 2:00PM
Seattle, Washington
Central Cinema

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Meet the Cast

  • Gabby Bilka

    The clown.

    Gabby spends her days "mitigating risk" of artificial intelligence in society's widest reaching products, spends her nights dancing and laughing to cope with it. So grateful to join this cast in bringing this film and vision to light.

  • Julia Lilly

    The Sheep.

  • Kristina Banh

    bonnie line & Employee of the month

    Kristina Banh (she/her) is a dancer based in Seattle. She loves to learn, wiggle, and challenge her brain, things that AI cannot achieve. Outside of the dance world, she is a tech sheep who likes to knit and explore all of the milk tea in existence.

  • CJ Close

    Shee j wool

    CJ Close (she/her) is a creative in the Seattle area. As a dancer, designer, writer, and music-lover, she strongly advocates for human-produced art in a time of AI overconsumption. When she’s not expressing her creative passions, CJ is just another cog in the corporate machine.

  • Mallory Killan

    Moovin t needle

    Mallory is a Seattle-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer with 10+ years of performing and teaching movement in the area. Their work blends technical discipline with expressive choreography, and they’re passionate about creating art that pushes boundaries and connects people through movement.

  • Callan Moore

    Baaarbra Sheep

    Callan is a dance artist & choreographer from Seattle, WA. She has a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts and is the director of a Seattle-based dance collective called Eleven:Eleven.

  • Adri Polyak

    a-aron wool

    An Arizona baby, beginning their dance journey at two years old, Adri trained in all styles in both the competitive world and a recreational setting. Continuing to dance in college on their college dance team, they also taught tap master classes all over Phoenix, including at the Step Up to Dance Convention. Now living in WA, their main focus is tap, however they are performing with numerous contemporary based dance companies. Adri also hosts monthly donation-based workshops, building their own tap company called Project T.A.P. and producing their own tap show and festival this summer. (feel free to change anything!!)ion goes here

  • Angela Wipfler

    Fleece Witherspoon

  • Rachel Good

    The boss.

    Rachel Good (she/her) is a Seattle-based dancer and choreographer. When she is not dancing, she is actually a corporate boss sheep working on the Starlink program. She is honored to be a part of this relateable, smart, absurd, and deeply important film.

  • Natalie Bell

    Sharon holder

About the Director

Diana Kim is an Atlanta-Born, SEATTLE-based creative who lives a double life working in the tech industry. Studying Machine Learning in undergrad, and working in AI safety and ethics post-grad, Diana has had a unique experience seeing both sides of the AI narrative.

Diana is staunchly against the use of ai, and isolates us from the things that make us human.

There is nothing more important in this world than art. Art transcends verbal communication and allows us to share that which cannot be spoken.

To create is to seek to be understood, and to watch is to understand.

About The Film

“I JUsT had hoped this time it would turn out differently”

In the age of tech giants, parasocial relationships, and AI over people, we have to sit back and wonder, “we have seen this story unfold before. Why does it never seem to end differently?” Time and time again, we make the same ethical quandaries with science and technology. From Frankenstein’s Monster to Oppenheimer, we have already explored divorcing ethics from technology and watching as inventors reckon with the consequences of their creations. 

But despite knowing how the story ends, we keep following their paths, lockstep.

Dolly the Sheep is often the first time kids learn about the importance of ethical science. Before this point in your education, science, math, and technology are treated as rigid disciplines with right answers and wrong answers. Black and white, no shades of grey. Dolly, however, teaches us that science is grey, and humans’ meddling with the nature of the universe has consequences. When we try to play god, there is no right answer.

when i dreamed of electric sheep is an uncanny, comical exploration of the ridiculousness of continuing to try to change a story that has already been written.

Why Sheep?

The Sheep is our stand in for AI. I selected a sheep as the non-human face of AI because of the reference to the philIP K. dick novel, “Do androids dream of electric sheep”, but also because of its additional metaphorical connections. Of course there is Dolly the Sheep being a pivotal topic when it comes to ethical science.ironically, one of the first widespread successful image generation AI models is called Dall-e (pronounced the same). Beyond this we see Sheep as metaphors for weakness, lack of independence, and an inability to critically think. As AI is being used to replace more and more human jobs and is being placed in positions to create artiFicIally, we can't help but wonder how much of our active thoughT process is still used in these decisions.