"Imagine, we are all living inside of a cave. Unable to life our heads. To see. To feel, anything. Now watch, as we are set free." Is it technology setting us free, or are we freeing ourselves from technology? Nowadays the latter seems more important. This experimental short film titled Synthetic Pleasures is the creation of filmmaker Stuart Langfield. It was originally made as the main title film for Offf Barcelona 2024 held earlier in April - Offf is "global platform for the creative industry that sets the trends in design, art & post-digital culture." The short offers a different take on "the robot uprising, imagining a world in which our digital assistants like Siri and Alexa leave the confines of their devices and take some human bodies for a joyride, just to feel something, to be human for a minute." The result of this joyride is a selection of people dancing & moving in weird ways,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"What do you feel?" Can we ever perfectly recreate human emotions with a computer? That's the question at the core of this short film titled Loop made by filmmaker London-based filmmaker Stuart Langfield. Loop is a smart sci-fi short set in the middle of the 21st century, that centers around reclusive, retired tech company CEO David Hinton's attempts to teach A.I. how to experience and process true human emotions. "Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real." Starring Michael J.Rogers, Valeriia Polishchuk, and Tatenda Hatugari. This is similar in many ways to Alex Garland's Ex Machina, but not really derivative as much as it is an homage, with nods to Blade Runner and every other sci-fi involving Artificial Intelligence. The purity of telling the story this way with a conversation is what makes it so intriguing,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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