Movies: Technology

An ambitious member of a movie-piracy ring attempts to steal a hot new film and winds up with much more than he bargained for....

A grandson shows his grandmother how to navigate an iPad 2 full of clues for solving a puzzle. Over a phone call, she recites an email she wrote seven years prior....

Three emotionally damaged adults, drawn together by their life-threatening allergy to digital devices, move into an isolated cabin to begin anew without screens. But avoiding modern technology proves more difficult than expected....

Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so...

An old film exhibitor struggles to keep his cinema from being demolished. Meanwhile, his relationship with his immoral son deteriorates....

Jenni has an ordinary life of simple patterns revolving around family and work. Her daily routine is seemingly unremarkable yet is of great interest to someone she doesn’t know—but who knows everything about her. Harvest is a thrilling and inventive ...

While trying to impress a girl he just met, Will joins a small but eccentric business club at his university. Partnering with Dusty and Terri, senior members who are eager to maintain their title as club champions, the trio enroll in an intense onlin...

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 musical documentary and tribute to Hugh Le Caine. The story of early electronic instruments, and the nearly forgotten Canadian music pioneer who created the first synthesizers. As told through interviews with three modern-day modular synth musician...

What if, before rushing headfront into technology progress, we think twice about it ? As our societies bet on technology outbids, some chose to invest on sobriety : the "low tech"....

A.I. guru Ben Goertzel grew up in a hippie community in Oregon during the Vietnam War. Inspired by science fiction, he imagined a perfect rational world that would transcend 1970s’ America. Ben has dedicated his life to developing OpenCog, a software...

The growth of the tech industry in the Bay Area is a hot button issue right now. Let Julie Armstrong, host of "In Your Own Backyard," show you how some citizens are taking the local tech growth into their own hands....

"Origins" takes a journey through the biological roots of where we have come from and where we have gone. Using fire as a metaphor for technology, the film looks at the advances of our civilization and how the recklessness of unchecked technology is ...

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we shouldn't let this spook us. He reveals the story of the pursuit of AI, the emergence of machine learning and ...

Documentary looking at the ways which computer on-line services and the Internet have evolved, how they have been applied and the problems they can cause....

A look at the destruction that follows the breaking of long-neglected dikes and the measures being taken to prevent future problems....

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A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia....

Performed live on September 15th, 1985 on the SONY JumboTRON at Tsukuba Expo, Tukuba, Japan...