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  • Die Welt jenseits der Welt (1986)
  • Short | 44 min | Short
Die Welt jenseits der Welt (1986)
Short | 44 min | Short
The "World Beyond the World" is a cybernetics documentary. 'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But clashes with the 'real world' are...See moreThe "World Beyond the World" is a cybernetics documentary. 'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But clashes with the 'real world' are preprogrammed for these machines of flesh and blood. The film traces humankind's striving to discover itself again in its mechanical creations, from the effort to construct automatons in Switzerland some 200 years ago, to a pinnacle display of the 1980ies achievements: a robot playing Haydn's 'Genesis' at the World Expo in Japan. The film concludes with an interview between human being and computer, the latter issuing the final summation: "We are discussing you - not me". Is it only the internalized mechanization which separates us human beings from animals? Written by Oliver Herbrich See less
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Director
Oliver Herbrich
Producer
Oliver Herbrich
Composer
Laurie Anderson
Cinematographer
Ludolph Weyer
Editor
Romy Schumann
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