Artificial Intelligence for Governance: Al the Kitty

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Films in Competition 12
Main Theater - Michigan Theater Sat, Mar 25, 2017 7:30 PM
Eight short films including recent experimental, documentary, and animated works. Features an 80-year-old woman's recollections of her life and loss during migration, an elusive point of stillness, reminiscences of early childhood, somebody-nobody-anyone, a radio journalist investigating water shortage, a rumination on the movement of people in one city, and the exploration of a single frame from a black and white 16mm film through an electron microscope.
Films in Competition 7: Animation
Main Theater - Michigan Theater Fri, Mar 24, 2017 9:30 PM

Ten recent animated films from near and far, featuring an artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten, memories of the "birds and the bees" talk, a suburban woman who can't stop growing fingers, a mother's alcohol addiction, the most notorious women's prison in East Germany, broken dolls and boiling stew, screen obsession and more.

Film Info
Event Type:Films in Competition 7: Animation
New Media
Sci-Fi
Films in Competition 12
Shorts in Competition
Animation
Release Year:2016
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Pinar Yoldas

Description

It is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free zone with a network of Artificial Intelligences. She lives in mobile devices of the citizens and can love up to 3 Million people.