If you have a SUFF All-Access Festival Pass or a 4 or 10 Film Pass, make sure you're logged into your account to watch this film. If you do not have a Pass, a separate ticket to watch this film can be purchased at the listed price. (Please remember, once you start watching you have 48 hours to finish watching each session.)
Abigail Child has been at the vanguard of experimental media since the 1980s. In her latest project, she offers viewers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence including potential medical applications and exploitation in the arena of sexual fantasies. We are led on these explorations by an artificial construct known as BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture), modeled after a black lesbian and designed to test hypotheses concerning the ability to download a person's consciousness into a non-biological or nanotech body. Child’s thought-provoking film reveals the contemporary dance between metal and flesh as humans become more mechanical while robots, those human mirrors, approach consciousness. Child also considers the emerging technology’s ethical and emotional implications, presenting a speculative not-too-distant future grounded in sci-fi.
- Year2021
- Runtime73 mins
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereAUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- RatingMA15+
- DirectorAbigail Child
- ScreenwriterAbigail Child
- ProducerAbigail Child, Jennifer Burton
If you have a SUFF All-Access Festival Pass or a 4 or 10 Film Pass, make sure you're logged into your account to watch this film. If you do not have a Pass, a separate ticket to watch this film can be purchased at the listed price. (Please remember, once you start watching you have 48 hours to finish watching each session.)
Abigail Child has been at the vanguard of experimental media since the 1980s. In her latest project, she offers viewers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence including potential medical applications and exploitation in the arena of sexual fantasies. We are led on these explorations by an artificial construct known as BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture), modeled after a black lesbian and designed to test hypotheses concerning the ability to download a person's consciousness into a non-biological or nanotech body. Child’s thought-provoking film reveals the contemporary dance between metal and flesh as humans become more mechanical while robots, those human mirrors, approach consciousness. Child also considers the emerging technology’s ethical and emotional implications, presenting a speculative not-too-distant future grounded in sci-fi.
- Year2021
- Runtime73 mins
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereAUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- RatingMA15+
- DirectorAbigail Child
- ScreenwriterAbigail Child
- ProducerAbigail Child, Jennifer Burton