Screening @ Yale: ETERNAL YOU (2024) followed by Q&A with Co-Director! April 9 @ 5pm - HQ L01
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection (2024)
“★★★★★” – The Guardian
Free and open to the public!
Q&A with co-director Moritz Riesewieck!
In conversation with Neta Alexander (Yale Film and Media Studies)
Description: What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions and more while examining one of the latest major breakthroughs in AI technology – open language models that enable realistic conversations with virtual reality avatars built using characteristics of the deceased. In essence, bringing the dead to digital life. Through interviews with end-users, tech experts, journalists, programmers and psychologists, a broad and analytical account unfolds to reveal the far-reaching and often disturbing implications of this new technology. “A sprawling portrait of the emerging business that is digital afterlife technology,” (Rolling Stone), ETERNAL YOU both glimpses what the future of death in capitalism holds and examines what the human costs might be.
2024 | Directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck | Germany and USA | 87 minutes
Presented by the Yale Film and Media Studies