Movies: Technology

A video directed by Josh Begley shows the preposterous effort that would be required to build a border wall....

THE 414s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983 when they broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a classi...

Two brothers embark on a road trip home for their grandmother's funeral. But on a highway rest stop, David Stern finds out no one's told his younger brother Andy - they're not headed home for Grandma Vern's birthday anymore. Now David must confront h...

A young girl living in the slums of a futuristic world makes a startling discovery....

The ChipTune Story focuses on 8-bit music and the C64 SID chip. Featuring interviews with games 8-bit music composers Rob Hubbard, Chris Huelsbeck, Ben Daglish, Mark Knight. We look at the history of ChipTune from 8-bit to 16-bit sampling....

While helping the CIA to develop a deadly computer virus, a computer engineer finds himself as the target of an assassination....

What does it mean to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent? Can machines really see? Based on an interview with a professor in artificial intelligence, this short experimental documentary uses analog technique...

In Zaatari, Jordan – one of the world’s biggest refugee camps – Maamun owns a little shop: a small white container aligned in a seemingly endless row of identical containers. There he repairs mobile phones of the numerous Syrian refugees. They are an...

Focusing on the vulnerability of digital data, Digital Amnesia ponders the sustainability of modern artifacts that have no material state. Notable archivists share their perspectives on the Digital Age and whether it poses great promise or threat to ...

A lonely, old man tries to improve his luck by buying a VR flirt simulator....

When ‘M.I.N.D.’, a human and AI hybrid infiltrates the screens of the public, enforcing its vision of what the world should be, Dr Malcolm is tasked with stopping the rebellion. She must choose between protecting what she holds most dear or saving h...

In a near future, human DNA has been modified to receive internet signals, and by law, everyone must remain connected. Celeste is on the verge of collapse; the constant hyperconnectivity is suffocating her. But when a mysterious AI, housed in a phone...

Wired for What? visits four very different elementary schools grappling with computerization to find out if technology is helping to change our schools for the better or if it is dulling students’ creativity and draining precious resources from other...

A man struggles to verify his humanity....

A sketch comedy short where a family gets together for a typical dinner. With an unexpected guest who knows too much....

Jack adheres strictly to his routine, as dictated by his phone. When a friend at work tries to free him, his phone fights back....

An experimental short on technology and organic life...

Finley and his wife rely on the microchips in their neck to live their lives but they can never kiss again. When Finley openly voices criticism of the world that technology has given them, he loses his wife to the very malevolent tech company that im...

More than 400 electronics, computer and chip companies in Silicon Valley can trace their genealogy back to the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. Through interviews with historians and surviving fo...

A documentary about the past, present and potential future of the Digital Compact Cassette. Very few people know the true story about, the Digital Compact Cassette or DCC. Was DCC's audio compression the grandfather of all compressed audio formats to...