When a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, our narrator, Werner Herzog, travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect. ABOUT A HERO is an adaptation of a script written by an AI trained on Werner …
Disrupt. Dismantle. Decentralize. A film about the invisible operating system of the modern world. From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement. These radicals are confronting internet infrastructure and the unexpected …
Deep in the forests of West Virginia lies Green Bank, a remote town suspended in pre-digital silence. Home to the world’s largest radio telescope—so sensitive it could detect an iPhone on Mars—the area enforces a near-total ban on cell phones and electronic interference, though restrictions on WiFi have gradually eroded. Known as the Quiet Zone, …
Directed by Kate Stonehill (Phantom Parrot, 2023), this bold and unsettling work confronts the quiet dismantling of public discourse in a time of accelerating authoritarianism. Since Elon Musk assumed—and later departed—his role as head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, federal agencies have flagged and quietly removed hundreds of words from public websites, educational …
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If you can’t meet her, make her Chris, a thirty-something gas station employee, lives in North Carolina with his girlfriend Mimi, a live-sized ‘love doll’, who he communicates with through an AI app. A clear-eyed, open-hearted and fascinating take on machine learning and AI, the rising levels of loneliness, and the social implications for people …
My Vingren is a well-regarded, award-winning Swedish journalist. Deemed by the media as “the real-life ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,’” she is known for her in-depth investigations, especially into white supremacist networks. However, her latest journalistic pursuit is about to bring her into considerably dangerous territory. With the use of fake profiles, Vingren dives deep …