'Meander' Experimental Sci-Fi Film Screening
Berea College Planetarium (At the Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building, Berea College)
271 N Main St, Berea, KY 40403 , Berea, Kentucky 40404
6:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
Meander, a new film by Lexi Bass, representing 15 years of collaboration with Kentucky talent, and funded in part by a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, screens on September 16 @6:30pm at the Berea College Planetarium in Berea, KY.
As artificial intelligence replaces workers in our increasingly elderly global population, companies engineering AI race robots amidst human inequities and emerging problems of AI sentience. The sum spells disaster for the human race in the dystopian world of Meander, which evokes both ancient Greek mythology and near-future science fiction. Meander finds herself destitute in the Underworld with no way to finance escape other than offering her biological potential for surrogate pregnancy up to dubious experimentation in an underground facility. Meanwhile, filmmaker/narrator, Lexi Bass, recounts her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood at the precipice of age 40 and the loss of her own mother shortly after, questioning the future of humanity at the precipice of Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super-Intelligence.