Friday Night Film Screening: Posthumans

The Business, Science and Technology Department invites you to join us for our Friday Night Film Screening Series.

The Business, Science and Technology Department invites you to join us for our Friday Night Film Screening Series. In June, we will be screening . The following is a summary from the National Film Board:

Director Dominique Leclerc spent years depending on medical devices for her survival. Then, looking for alternative solutions, she entered the world of emerging technologies, where cyborgs, biohackers and transhumanists work to outsmart illness, aging—and even death.

Over time, through her conversations with them, Leclerc finds herself wavering between hope and wariness.

In Posthumans, she looks at issues like what happens if our physical and cognitive “enhancements” are driven by the tech giants, and raises critically important social, ethical and political questions.

The film’s auteur and avant-garde aesthetic is further enriched by composer Frannie Holder’s spellbinding soundtrack.

Posthumans forms part of Dominique Leclerc’s multidisciplinary exploration of these issues and themes, which she’s previously grappled with in sensitive and nuanced works for the theatre such as Post Humains and i/O.

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