Set deep within an imagined future, HYPER, a new system that has achieved the ultimate goal of becoming human, introduces us to her dizzying world. We meet entities like a worker’s collective of ears, fugitive lovers, a human cell, and a memory that has outlived its owners. The film is about the future of what it could mean to be ‘a person’, and how machines shape who – or even what – we are.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
-
Fajr
Three figures appear from the gloom. Dawn gives the abstract silhouettes in the desert increasing volume, while the call to prayer breaks the sil -
Fuddy Duddy
Fuddy Duddy is a mesmerising animation that uses the motif of the grid to blow it completely to pieces. -
August
Shot in 3D with surreal dream sequences, August is based on the life and work of renowned Cologne photographer August Sander (1876-1964).
Film details
- Countries of production
- Australia, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 41'
- Medium/Format
- File
