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18th Forum Expanded

Program 4: AI: African Intelligence

Still from the film "AI: African Intelligence" by Manthia Diawara. Drummers and a group of colourfully dressed dancers in a village square.

Sat 18.02.
17:00

  • Director

    Manthia Diawara

  • Portugal, Senegal, Belgium / 2022
    110 min. / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    English, French, Wolof

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu dem Kalender

Manthia Diawara’s latest essay film, AI: AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE, explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence for such improbable algorithms?

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media