Soviet scientists taught machines to find Leonardo hiding in his own paintings. The results? Unhinged.
A history of cybernetics from first machines to mankind's aspirations to create a being in its image, and about the computing power of machines that were able to detect Leonardo da Vinci's figure among the characters of his own paintings.
Direction
Zagryazhsky treats punch cards with the reverence most films reserve for sunsets.
Production
Glorious 1970s hardware porn—reels, whirring tapes, rooms-sized brains.
Director
Boris Zagryazhsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brezhnev's stagnation era, when Soviet cybernetics became state-approved ideology after being suppressed as 'bourgeois pseudoscience' under Stalin. The rehabilitation is palpable.
The Leonardo recognition experiments referenced were real 1974 research at Moscow State University, attempting early computer vision—results were... generously interpreted.
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