L’invention du désert
L'invention du désert
‘Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children’. Sketch of a post-human landscape that looks suspiciously like ours. The images are taken from architectural videos posted on YouTube. The text comes from research into the singularity theory: artificial intelligence will soon exceed that of humans.
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Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- File
