Long Pham

2026

The title “Lingua Automata” is a rough Latin translation of “language of the automata" or “the tongue of the machine”. “Automata” denotes machinic devices able to act of their own will, self-propelled yet still obeying a predetermined concatenation of courses. If “Machinima”, the portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema”, is used to describe a strand of virtual puppetry performed by humans, then “lingua automata” could be the vernacular through which only machine-to-machine, automaton-to-automaton communication is conducted in a closed loop. This film is composed of images made entirely within the Roblox game engine.

Long Pham
Vietnam, USA
2026
19 min
World premiere

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Long Pham is an artist and experimental filmmaker originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, currently based in Syracuse, New York. After relocating to the United States, they studied cinema at Binghamton University, where they developed a practice in experimental video and filmmaking. Their work is deeply guided by the confluences of micro- and macrospaces with colonial histories, the transfiguration of form, and the phenomenology of the screen.

Long's films have been screened and awarded at many festivals, including the Cindependent Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, and Celluloid Now.