The panel by Christine Reeh-Peters and Fee Altmann projects two entangled aspects of artistic handling with regard to 'Crisis Collective': the first one addresses how artistic thinking functions in the medium of film and how it materializes in cinematic practice. Here, ontological reflection becomes itself a sensing tool and an epistemic method of artistic research. In such reflection film is set as a medium of artificial intelligence – AI beyond the common sense of algorithmic computation. An AI which enquires sensibly into different fields of reality (matter as well as social processes). The second perspective builds on the first and aims to combine the provocative idea of artistic thinking as artificial intelligence with intervention practices in society through film procedures. It shows how filmic thinking is transformed into action and reflects on crises. 

Both parts take examples from own artistic and professional praxis in which the hypothesis of ‘film as AI’ evolves as a key concept for artistic processing of crises. These and other film references raise the artificial intelligent thinking as a sense in the context of complex systems: the sense of thinking becomes then able to palpate an environment of the unpredictable, to sense form by thinking, and, vice-versa, to enable form by thought. Film thus intra-actively creates its moving and machinic images as well as fabulation and narrative. This process of mediatization (of what the intelligent sense of thinking has found) enables epistemic insight through sensual perception as well as reflection on crises. Our reflection introduces the factors of social and emotional intelligence which should be apprehended in such context.