Free screening at Goethe-Institut New York, with director Moritz Riesewieck in attendance!
The German Film Office is pleased to present a free screening of Eternal You, Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck’s moving documentary on a troubling new use of AI: reanimating the dead. Q&A with Riesewieck to follow.
As the 2020s become defined by the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into our personal and working lives, some startups are using it to create avatars of the deceased. Eternal You explores this strange technological frontier and the complex emotions, motivations, and hopes of those pioneering it.
From the users of services like Project December and HereAfter AI—like Joshua, who spends day and night chatting with a simulation of his partner, or Ji-sung, who joins a reality TV show to meet an avatar of her 7-year-old daughter—to the developers who deny responsibility for the psychological consequences of their products, Eternal You probes the relationship between the living, the dead, and the uncanny in-between.
“Rigorous and informative... [Eternal You] muses on the abiding question of how we cope with loss.” —David Katz, Cineuropa, 04/25/2024.
Eternal You world premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, before screening at DOC NYC, Hot Docs, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Friday, 24, 19.00 - Friday, 24, 21.00 New York, NY _$25