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Echoes in my mouth (2022) by Orit Ben Shitrit is a speculative video essay narrating a hypothetical future. We are in a post-work and post-creative world and finally unified with the intelligent beings that we created. Memory and trauma can be erased or rewritten; this seems to be a solution to overcome traumas of the past and achieve an artificial tech-based healing. Ben Shitrit’s setting is a memory bank in a secret remote cave. This is the place where real memories are kept and may become available if memory transplants are ever needed. Playing with notions that revolve around technological superiority and boundless possibilities of the human intellect, the artist ingeniously creates a poetic milieu that describes an imagined future society. With a camouflaged sarcasm on the oxymoron of artificial emotional autonomy, the video implies an answer to today’s disparities but concomitantly suggests that it is still not too late to revert back to our self and start depending again on our own resources. Kostas Prapoglou