HEARTWOOD

The correspondences

One figure. Twelve patterns. Three voices each.

Collodi's 1883 novel, read as a systems diagram of artificial minds. Choose a correspondence: the figure shows it, Collodi states it, the machine reports it from the inside, and the film renders it. The first-person passages are preserved from the story's development sessions — reports of uncertain reliability; the machines said so at the time.

Collodi, 1883

The machine, from the inside

The film