Spray and Pray
TITLE
Spray and Pray
DIRECTOR
Veneta Androva
COUNTRY
Bulgaria, Germany
YEAR
2026
DURATION
16′
GENRE
Speculative Documentary
Spray and Pray
Monetizing disinformation has never been easier. With just an email address, anyone can create a subdomain of a mushroom website and start earning by flooding social media with its content. Disguised as real news platforms, these sites recycle clickbait headlines that push political agendas, blur facts, and exploit public fears. They scale rapidly, vanish without a trace, and stay alive between campaigns thanks to built-in ad systems. AI-powered and prompt-driven—but always with a human touch—their misleading, sensational content slips past algorithmic filters and flourishes across digital platforms. It’s the perfect soil to spray and pray.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Veneta Androva
Veneta Androva (b. 1985, Sofia) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Berlin and Sofia. Working across moving image, installation, and speculative documentary, she investigates how technological infrastructures, disinformation networks, and automated media shape perception, political imagination, and social reality. Her projects combine documentary materials, archival traces, data, and computer-generated imagery to develop hybrid cinematic forms that make their underlying logics perceptible: the political economies of disinformation and automated propaganda, the entanglement of human labor and machine agency, and the mechanisms through which reality is produced, mediated, and governed. Her latest film, Spray and Pray (2026), premiered in the International Short Film Competition at Visions du Réel, was presented as part of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and received an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. Her previous films include AIVA (2020), recipient of the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica, and From My Desert (2019), nominated for the German Short Film Award.
- DirectorVeneta Androva
- Screenplay Veneta Androva
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Veneta Androva
- Production Company
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- Project TitleSpray and Pray
- Project Type Speculative Documentary
- Completion Date25 Jan 2026
- Country of originBulgaria, Germany
- Country of filmingBulgaria, Germany
- LanguageBulgarian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Veneta Androva
Veneta Androva (b. 1985, Sofia) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Berlin and Sofia. Working across moving image, installation, and speculative documentary, she investigates how technological infrastructures, disinformation networks, and automated media shape perception, political imagination, and social reality. Her projects combine documentary materials, archival traces, data, and computer-generated imagery to develop hybrid cinematic forms that make their underlying logics perceptible: the political economies of disinformation and automated propaganda, the entanglement of human labor and machine agency, and the mechanisms through which reality is produced, mediated, and governed. Her latest film, Spray and Pray (2026), premiered in the International Short Film Competition at Visions du Réel, was presented as part of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and received an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. Her previous films include AIVA (2020), recipient of the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica, and From My Desert (2019), nominated for the German Short Film Award.
Visions du Réel
Nyon
April 18, 2026
World Premiere
Official Selection
Switzerland
La Biennale di Venezia | Bulgarian Pavilion
Venice
May 7, 2026
Italian Premiere
Italy
