AI and death: Sundance films grapple with our digital afterlife

AI and death: Sundance films grapple with our digital afterlife

Sundance documentary ‘Love Machina’ follows eccentric SiriusXM founder Martine Rothblatt as she builds an AI-powered humanoid robot of her partner Bina – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Neilson Barnard Andrew MARSZAL Artificial intelligence promises to […]

‘Maybe we should let me go’: Christopher Reeve documentary brings tears to Sundance | Sundance 2024

Man wearing blue leotard and red cape flies in front of a bridge and over water.

A powerful new documentary about the life and work of Christopher Reeve has premiered to tears and applause at this year’s Sundance film festival. Met with a rousing standing ovation, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story […]

Brian Eno on AI (he’s a fan) and the Sundance doc about him

An image of a man's face is multiplied in several frames.

Part practical problem-solver and part esoteric theoretician, Brian Eno has been involved as a musician and producer on some of the most influential music of the past 50 years, a daunting list of collaborators that […]

What’s going to pop big at Sundance? We have thoughts

A man and woman drive in a car in the documentary "Will & Harper."

Jordan Peele had trudged through the waist-deep snow to the Park City Library for a “secret” midnight screening of his directorial debut, “Get Out,” a secret in name only, as everyone sitting in the theater […]

Sundance diaries: C.J. Obasi on ‘Mami Wata’ Oscar submission

Sundance diaries: C.J. Obasi on 'Mami Wata' Oscar submission

COTONOU, Benin —  As part of our yearlong series on Sundance filmmakers, The Independents, we asked participants to keep a diary of their working life and submit an accompanying self-portrait. Today’s diary is from C.J. Obasi […]