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36 movies and shows

Another Body

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

A college student searches for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

BlackBerry

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

General Magic

Thu, 09 May 2019

A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Silicon Valley", changed the lives of billions.

Dump Yard

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Amidst the chaos of planning his son's birthday, Sandesh's phone, crucial for an investor call, gets accidentally thrown away. In his quest to retrieve it, he discovers unexpected emotional depths.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Wed, 08 Apr 1970

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Eternal You

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.

Art Never Sleeps

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Acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, with the help of a passionate team of film students with a shared dream for the artistic potential of live digital cinema, work towards realising the director's 'Distant Visions' live-cinema experiment.

Hyperland

Fri, 21 Sep 1990

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.

The Click Trap

Sun, 05 May 2024

Digital advertising algorithms curate content precisely for users. Major tech firms claim to restrict disinformation yet still profit from harmful content, raising ethical concerns about democracy and online capitalism.

Movies by Machine - AI and Cinema

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

As artificial intelligence becomes ever more sophisticated, the film industry is split between enthusiasm at what the technology can achieve and concern over the future for human workers in the industry. Will actors and actresses be replaced by machines? An overview on the coming wave of AI in cinema.

Memory Run

Fri, 16 Jun 1995

The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining the most basic aspect of life: that Mind, Body, and Soul must be one, Those who benefit from this new technology will wake up to a new and youthful beginning - the rest of humankind must live a bad dream and wake up to a living nightmare that goes beyond life, beyond death, and beyond redemption.

Melody for a Soul

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

A lonely elderly man travels through the suburbs to find someone who can play an old vinyl with a song by his late wife. In an emotional journey full of rediscoveries, the short film explores a relationship of true love and the need to preserve the most important memories of your life.

Två kokta i ett bröd

Tue, 05 Jan 1999

About the arrival of new technology to the village where the IT-technician and the farmer get in a conflict.

Immortalité, Dernière Frontière

Tue, 12 Apr 2016

Immortality and eternal life: Will this great human dream come true? In any case, cryonics is making ever greater progress, human cloning no longer seems impossible and research is being carried out into the digital reproduction of the brain. Taking stock in the USA, Canada, Europe and Russia. The documentary delves into a world in which all-too-human people refuse to simply be wiped out by death. It shows how difficult it is to resist the promises of eternal life and also highlights the economic interests behind such endeavors. Google's push is just one sign of a possible two-tier society of the future: on the one hand, the rich who have access to such "offers", on the other, the rest of society.

The Moon Also Rises

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins.

REM

Sun, 04 Aug 2019

"REM" is an Afrikaans Sci-Fi Drama about a grief-stricken father, Dehan, who becomes obsessed with the memory of his late wife, Lena, through the use of a high-tech, dream-altering device, the REM. This unhealthy obsession leads to Dehan struggling to reconnect with his young son, Erich, who survived the car accident that caused Lena's death. Dehan must decide to face and to confront his grief, reconnecting with his son, or to become so immersed in his fantasy dream-world that he loses touch with reality, and Erich, altogether.