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 …
Overnight, and in advance of an election in 2018, the only reliable news source for citizens of the Muscogee Nation, the fourth largest Native American tribe, became state-censored media. Out of 574 federally recognized tribes, the Muscogee Nation was one of only five to establish a free and independent press, until the tribe’s legislative branch …
Robin is pregnant but doesn’t want to be a mother. Katerina and Gaia are single but want a child. Kiki suffers from an incurable disease and wants her life to end with dignity. The procedure they hope to get access to – abortion, IVF and euthanasia – is available and legal in neighboring countries but …
In Zenica, a medium-sized Bosnian town, frequent occurrences of cancers, childhood diabetes, and respiratory disease have become the norm. Air pollution, in general, is high in Bosnia, but the citizens look with suspicion towards a giant steel and coking plant which occupies a quarter of the city and is the largest employer in the area. …
Frustrated by the dearth of women and people of color in the media, as well as all the white men dominating newsrooms, in 2020 a motivated group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists banded together to buck the status quo and launch The 19th* News. Based in Austin, Texas, the digital news start-up is named after …