What do monsters look like in our time? Who’s talking about monsters today? Who asks about them and who answers? What answers can they give us? What does a book about some cinematic monsters look like? What do monsters outside the confines of cinema look like? And what do the monsters have to show us? This publication brings together responses to a set of such questions: texts written by humans and/or machines, monstrous representations of creatures that evade the public gaze but inhabit the collective imagination, processing of speculations from an interpretative point of view, but also by artificial intelligence. Sometimes in the first person plural and sometimes in the third person singular, a discourse on monsters emerges, more relevant than ever. The illustration of this publication was generated with the assistance of AI tools, and more specifically, through submitting a set of queries to ChatGPT regarding the films of the 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s main tribute We, the Monster.
