Alex Garland’s precise, provocative film examines consciousness and control through a confined, high-stakes experiment. A young programmer is invited to assess an eerily lifelike artificial intelligence, and the film watches how testing becomes manipulation and seduction without ever revealing answers. Garland’s clean, clinical framing and cool, luminous surfaces heighten the moral ambiguity: identity, agency and empathy are interrogated in measured rhythms. Tense, intellectually charged and visually restrained, the film lingers on power dynamics between creator, subject and viewer.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French
