Your phone isn't the machine controlling you—your own mind is.
The film tackles the theme of the invasion of machines around us. With the advent of artificial intelligence, people are concerned about the increasing autonomous capabilities of technology. Have we passed the tipping point, and have machines become too powerful to be controlled by humans? While legitimate, these fears conceal the real danger. Beyond technological objects, the machine has infiltrated our very being, our way of thinking and seeing the world.
Direction
Asselin's methodical unravelling of comfortable assumptions.
Writing
Philosophical precision that cuts deeper than tech-bro panic.
Director
Olivier D. Asselin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Asselin extends the French philosophical tradition of technocritique from Ellul to contemporary AI discourse.
The film's core argument—that we've been mechanized since the Enlightenment—reframes current AI panic as distraction from deeper colonization.
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