{"id":1419,"date":"2024-04-11T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","slug":"is-a-i-really-going-to-take-over-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/is-a-i-really-going-to-take-over-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A.i. Really Going to Take Over Cinema?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do AI portrayals in film predict a future of robotic overlords or simply offer a chance to innovate cinema?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Artificial Intelligence in cinema goes way back. Spanning from Fritz Lang\u2019s 1927 Metropolis and robot Maria, to the iconic Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, our tech obsession runs deep in film. But why is it all so dystopian?<br>What now seems to be a serious technological shift, we discuss how A.I. could impact cinema and what film depictions of sentient machines might tell us of what&#8217;s to come<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Come watch 2001: A Space Odyssey with us as part of our first ever Celebrating Cinema Film Club &#8211; book your tickets \u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/celebrating-cinema-film-club-2001-a-space-odyssey-incl-introduction\/\">here\u2060<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/celebratingcinema\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\"><strong>Subscribe to our podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/whats-at-stake-for-cinema-with-a-i\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\"><strong>Cold Open<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Is A.I. Really Going to Take Over Cinema?\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/36Ifd5pSLIhalLadiojW2Z?si=f8bf7254254f45c3&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XQr4Xklqzw8?si=oLugcSHUka6-vsC3\">AI Will Smith eating spaghetti pasta (AI footage and audio)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rjR582Dn4SM?si=trYxCLeRknZRerxd\">The Best Movie About A.I. | Thomas Flight<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oxXpB9pSETo?si=L33orjHsMRGI1dBZ\">This Is Not Morgan Freeman &#8211; A Deepfake Singularity | Diep Niep<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HK6y8DAPN_0?si=zLUgEFgjpKz7ETho\">Introducing Sora &#8211; OpenAI&#8217;s text-to-video model | OpenAI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@pcmw\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films mentioned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(click on the links for tickets to screenings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/\">LAB111<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/civil-war\/\">Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/alex-garland-ex-machina\/\">Ex Machina&nbsp;(Alex Garland, 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miami Vice: TV Series (Anthony Yerkovich, 1988-90)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/dune-part-two\/\">Dune: Part Two&nbsp;(Denis Villeneuve, 2024)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/dune-part-one\/\">Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prisoners&nbsp;(Denis Villeneuve, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Balcony Movie (Pawe\u0142 \u0141ozi\u0144ski, 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tishe! (Victor Kossakovsky, 2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daguerr\u00e9otypes&nbsp;(Agn\u00e8s Varda, 1975)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spiderman: Across the Spider Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metropolis&nbsp;(Fritz Lang, 1927)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/hiep-hoi-hoyte-her-10th-anniversary\/\">Her (Spike Jonez, 2013)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/celebrating-cinema-film-club-2001-a-space-odyssey-incl-introduction\/\">2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Matrix (Lily &amp; Lana Wachowski, 1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Westworld (Jonathan Nolan &amp; Lisa Joy, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, 1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wall-e (Andrew Stanton, 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inventing the Future (Isiah Medina, 2020)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped 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768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-1140x1140.png 1140w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-700x700.png 700w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Kiriko-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" data-id=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot.png 1600w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Elliot-1140x1140.png 1140w, 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An episode that takes the question seriously rather than resolving it too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}