The women in this short film wander through a bright, luxurious NYC penthouse—thinking, smoking, dreaming, simply being—while their drones follow like graceful extensions of their beauty. Created through the Posthuman Feminine Gaze I developed with my machine, these women do not pose for the camera; they exist on their own terms. They cross glass bridges with ease. Their ceilings were shattered a long time ago.
High above the city, something becomes unmistakably clear:
altitude creates clarity.
Clarity about themselves.
Clarity about the narratives that once tried to shape them.
Clarity about the myth they have escaped.
Because what weighs on them is not the past—it’s the realisation that suburbia was never a place. It was a psychological construct engineered to domesticate the feminine. A white picket script sold to women as safety, aspiration, and good behaviour.
These women reject that entirely.
DRONE DRIVER — LIMITED EDITION CINEMA PRINTS
She lifts a drone where a phone once hung...
Six Films. One City. Infinite Surveillance.
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"LES DRONES DE LA BANLIEUE"
"Miss AL Simpson’s "Les Drones de la Banlieue" is a spellbinding AI video artwork that captures a flowing, dreamlike journey through the suburbs and landmarks of Paris, as seen through an otherworldly lens."
SOTHEBY'S CATALOGUE, Feb 2025
