A terrifying screenshot from Portrait
 
Italian visual artist, Donato Sansone’s latest work is called Portrait. In the short video, Sansone takes still-images of real people’s faces, and distorts them in a slow-moving film that will become the fuel for your next nightmare.
 

 
Sansone’s video reminded me a bit of all the twisted images that are getting spit out of Google’s “Deep Dream” AI system, only slightly more demented. The audio work by Enrico Ascoli—which quite frankly sounds like bones being churned through a meat grinder, while someone is simultaneously getting electrocuted—only adds to the unease you will experience while watching this surreal two-and-a-half-minute video. Much like the images created with “Deep Dream,” Sansone’s video is as eerily beautiful as it is completely unsettling.

I’ve taken the liberty of culling some screenshots from Sansone’s slow-motion acid trip so you can take a moment to digest the disfigured faces that you’ll be seeing later in your dreams. The super creepy video will be waiting for you at the very end of the post. If you need me, I’ll be under the bed.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait, a video by Donato Sansone