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Record W4413267341 · doi:10.32920/29660609

Struggling in Paradise

2025· preprint· en· W4413267341 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gerda Cammaer

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPleasureNothingHappinessArtParadiseShadow (psychology)AestheticsPsychologyArt historyVisual artsPsychoanalysisPhilosophySocial psychologyEpistemology

Abstract

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This is a found footage film about Paradise: a state of complete happiness. Amidst of information overload, communication overkill and mediated emotions, paradise is more and more a fleeting promise, a state of mind almost impossible to achieve. In a society fixated on achieving everything in an instant, being perfect all the time and having to experience everything, sense is lost, senses get blunted, and pleasure is only fake pleasure or even worse, a constant source of frustration. Some seek refuge in the creative process. Some stretch the use of the senses to its limits multiplying and enhancing "various emotions". Others just drive along on the road to paradise, thinking there is "nothing to worry about". Hidden behind all this is the profound knowledge that in the end, it is all about "the drive" and Hitchcock leads the way, both to and away of scary places. This found footage film is made with images from a faded instructional film about driving at night, and scraps of other films saved from trim bins (e.g. the head shots of Alfred Hitchcock). All these images were optically reprinted (frame by frame) to enhance or correct the color: e.g. the pink of the faded color images is made orange, a color that has the power to balance one's emotions. The sound-track was composed by Peter Lester. The film won the "most innovative film" award at the 2004 Afcoop Film Screening in Halifax. Most Innovative Production Award: Struggling in Paradise. ATLANTIC FILM MAKER’S COOPERATIVE (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, British Columbia) Leuven International Short Film Festival (Leuven, Belgium)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.191
Threshold uncertainty score0.640

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0110.003
Scholarly communication0.0080.008
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1910.061

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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