Documentary iHuman is thoroughly committed to an apocalyptic view of society in which we are in thrall to artificially intelligent machines. That is its strength – and its weakness, says Simon Ings
iHuman
Tonje Hessen Schei
Screening for eight weeks at modernfilms.com/ihuman
When a ship’s artificial brain fails, its crew must rebuild it from scraps in this techno-theological thriller by the author of Dune.
IN 2010, she made Play Again, a film about digital media addiction among children. In 2014, she won awards for Drone, which explored the CIA’s secret role in drone warfare. Now, with iHuman, Norwegian documentary-maker Tonje Hessen Schei tackles – well, what, exactly?
iHuman is a weird, portmanteau diatribe against computation – specifically, the branch of it that allows machines …
Source: Humans - newscientist.com
