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For seven years the award-winning film-maker Martha Fiennes — director of 1999’s Onegin, starring her brother, Ralph Fiennes — has been experimenting with digital films, utilising complex computer coding with post-production effects to create moving image artworks that self-generate perpetually in continuous, non-predictable cycles.

For her latest project, Yugen, Fiennes has fed layers of pre-recorded action sequences, musical scores and digital backgrounds into a custom-built gaming engine, which then uses artificial intelligence to composite layers and add effects such as weather and lighting. The result is a ‘moving image artwork’ which has no start, no finish, will never repeat itself, and is the result of the computer’s decision-making capabilities. Above is a Christie's exclusive trailer for the work.

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