Kuona is an immersive film script that reimagines screenwriting as a multimedia storytelling experience, blending historical science fiction with Afro-futurism. Told from the perspective of an AI algorithm trained on data from Gullah cosmology and non-linear spacetime. Seven interwoven narratives function as distinct matrices feeding into the AI model, each encoding fragments of memory, history, and cultural knowledge.
Set in a distant midtopia, Kuona traverses data interpretations that blur the boundaries between human and machine intelligence. The script weaves together the ancestral histories of the Gullah people of the Sea Islands, African American cultural legacies, and the mechanics of AI training—crafting a speculative vision of technology shaped by ancestral wisdom rather than detached computation.