The Cognitive Era

  • 3'
  • USA
  • 2018
Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how. What does the future hold for a world where people are treated like objects, while online objects are being granted agency and becoming increasingly anthropomorphic?
Screens before AlphaGo. Also see Exile.
Director
Zoe Beloff
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
3'
Medium
File
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Zoe Beloff
Sales
Zoe Beloff
Website
http://www.zoebeloff.com
Director
Zoe Beloff
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
3'
Medium
File
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Zoe Beloff
Sales
Zoe Beloff
Website
http://www.zoebeloff.com

Programme IFFR 2018

Curtain Call

An invitation to reflect upon the lure of science and technology and our obsession with progress through a series of films and an exhibition.

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