Settlers is a 2021 British-South African mystery & thriller/Sci-fi drama film written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller starring Sofia Boutella and Ismael Cruz-Córdova.
Tag: robot
1866 – LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: VOLUME 2 (2021)
1845 – The Animatrix (2003)
timespace coordinates: The Second Renaissance and Machine War – 2090s / around 2199 or perhaps 500 years later. (relative timeline of The Matrix series)
The Animatrix (Japanese: アニマトリックス, Hepburn: Animatorikkusu) is a 2003 animated science fiction anthology film produced by the Wachowskis. It is a compilation of nine animated short films based on The Matrix trilogy.
The film details the backstory of The Matrix series, including the original war between humankind and machines which led to the creation of the titular Matrix. (wiki)
1838 – The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
timespace coordinates: 2019 robot uprising / cross-country road trip Michigan > West Coast
The Mitchells vs the Machines (formerly called Connected) is a 2021 American computer-animated road science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The film was directed by Mike Rianda (in his feature directorial debut), co-directed by Jeff Rowe, and written by Rianda and Rowe.
1823 – Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
timespace coordinates: 2024. Skull Island, Antarctica, Florida, Hong Kong, the Pacific Ocean, Philadelphia, Tasman Sea / Hollow Earth
Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard. A sequel to both Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Kong: Skull Island (2017), it is the fourth film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. It is also the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 12th film in the King Kong franchise, and the fourth Godzilla film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio. (wiki)
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Machine in the ghost
Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world (read on aeon)
“… With some exceptions, this conception of automata and biotechne preceded the actual construction of robots, with legends about artificial life existing centuries before the accomplishments of a Renaissance engineer such as Turriano. Still, automata and artificial intelligence couldn’t help but have certain religious implications, whereby the ‘magical and mechanical often overlap in stories of artificial life that were expressed in mythic language’.
Even while simple mechanical beings were constructed in Ancient Greece (and the Islamic and Chinese worlds as well), legends about artificial life proliferated across cultures and centuries, and inevitably had a theological gloss to them. Kevin LaGrandeur, a professor of technology and culture, has written that ‘modern cybernetics is at least partially the product of a very old archetypal drive that pits human ingenuity against nature via artificial proxies.’ Witness medieval legends about constructed men, such as homunculi or the golem. In such stories, the emergence of an artificial intelligence allows for the exploration of creation more generally, where we can ask how unique the human mind is and in what way our cleverness can act as a surrogate for the divine.”
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