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A.rtificial I.mmortality Review: Surveying New Technologies to Cheat Death Ann Shin s documentary looks at emerging AI means of preserving the self, particularly her own. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Courtesy of Hot Docs “A.rtificial I.mmortality” provides a diverting if superficial survey of how fast-evolving technology might be able to extend our lives or at least some of our memories and characteristics. Featured as Hot Docs’ opening night selection, this Canadian documentary from director Ann Shin presents once-fantastical ideas now edging toward reality in a form palatable to broadcast viewers looking more for casual entertainment value than weighty investigation. But the film is weakened by its gratuitously first-person perspective, chosen for no obvious reason beyond the director evidently wanting to “star” in her own movie. ....
A.rtificial I.mmortality Director Ann Shin Aims for the Horizon (EXCLUSIVE) Jennie Punter, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Toronto-based Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of “A.rtificial I.mmortality,” which explores advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech through close encounters with neuroscientists, AI developers, transhumanists, robot-creators, and visionaries who are pointing the way toward post-biological life. Variety about her new film one of 13 features in the festival’s Canadian Spectrum juried competition and chatted up the next projects of Fathom Film Group, the female-led production company she founded in Toronto in 2006, and which is now represented by APA in the U.S. ....