More Human than Human

The robots are coming! And the algorithms and AIs. Welcome to the Frankenstein era. How human will humans still be in the future, and can you build a robot to replace a film director?

More Human than Human explores what it means to live in an era of intelligent machines. In a personal, playful and sometimes dramatic way, the filmmaker examines what is at stake regarding creativity and human values, when he builds a robot to see if it can replace him as a film director. Will artificial intelligence, infinitely smarter, better connected and possibly self-aware, eventually render humans obsolete? Introducing futurists and sceptics, including roboticist Daniel H. Wilson, author of science-fiction book Robopocalypse, Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human, Garry Kasparov, the world’s best chess player who was beaten by a computer, psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein and robot designer David Hanson.

Credits

Director

Tommy Pallotta
Femke Wolting

Producer

Femke Wolting
Bruno Felix
Tommy Pallotta

Co-producer

Bart Van Langendonck

Executive producer

Janneke van de Kerkhof

Camera

Guido van Gennep, NSC

Set geluid

Sound editing

Sound Design

Visual Effects

Montage

: Muziek
Harry Waters
Production company
Submarine
Co-production company
Savage Film
SubLA
TV company
VPRO
Distributor NL
Periscoop Film
Visual Effects
ONESIZE
Postproduction company
Filmmore

Title: More Human than Human
Year: 2018
Duration : 1 hour, 19 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2018

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