Film|Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong
Price$ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
Hi, AI
Director: Isabella Willinger
Germany | 2018 | 90 mins | In English, German, Japanese Italian, with English subtitles | DCP | Colour
*Professor Dr Gordon Cheng and Dr Derek Lam will attend the after-screening talk. Conducted in English.
Best Documentary, Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival 2019
Nominated for Best Documentary, German Film Awards 2019
Nominated for NEXT:WAVE Award and Politiken's Audience Award, CPH:DOX 2019
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam 2019
A robotic goal to love humans?
Humanoid robots are the new creatures. While scientists agonise over the philosophical questions surrounding artificial intelligence, robots are filling roles as receptionists, domestic workers, sex objects and others. In the US, Chuck is lonely and picks up a robot girlfriend, Harmony, who is programmed for empathy and compliments. In Japan, grandmother Sakurai is given the childlike robot, Pepper, by her son, so she is less alone.
While robotics is the future, Hi, AI provokes important moral and existential questions: How will we live together with machine learning and artificial intelligence? What will we win and what will we lose? And, who are the main characters in the new world? The interactions in the film bring about humorous moments, and many revealing hints too. We might come to realise that we can discover deeply human traits in the new artificial lifeforms.
