Wednesday 9 June, 18:30

Special Screening: Ex Machina

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

Rue de Berne 63
Photo Credit: L’agence Empire Design
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Photo Credit: L’agence Empire Design

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An intimate retrospective devoted to director Patricia Plattner, presenting a selection of her films alongside a reading-performance and a small exhibition. Plattner’s cinema favors close human encounters and observational compositions, blending subtle humour with poignant emotional truth. The programme highlights her attentive direction and narrative economy, tracing recurring themes of identity, everyday intimacy and the passage of time. Screenings offer a chance to rediscover the quiet intensity and warm, lyrical realism of her work. An event presented by the association Le Bazar de la Sirène in collaboration with Luna Films and the City of Carouge.

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– An inaugural staged reading on September 5, at the Théâtre des Amis
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3 September – 10 October

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