CRAFT & ENCODE present: Her (2013)

About the film:

In collaboration with the research group CRAFT and the network ENCODE (both UiT), we invite you to a special screening of Spike Jonze's original and thought-provoking science-fiction film and romance, featuring a brilliant Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role.

From the creative mind of filmmaker Spike Jonze comes the romantic drama "Her" - a unique and original love story. The story takes place in near-future Los Angeles, where the protagonist, Theodore, makes a living writing personal letters for people who don't have the time or ability to write them themselves. He is heartbroken after the end of a long-term relationship, and only emerges from his shell when he becomes acquainted with the new, advanced AI-driven operating system "Samantha."

"Samantha" is an AI system, that communicates with Theodore through a lively, female voice. She is both sensitive and funny, and as she learns more and more about both the world and Theodore, their friendship grows into love. They will never be able to be intimate with one another. But does that mean they can't love each other? And can AI-driven system do anything other than simulating humnan feelings?

Introduction by Cornel Borit, UiT.

Announcement at VT and ticket information can be found here.

About the film series:

CRAFT & ENCODE present is a series of film screenings at Verdensteatret Cinematek on autonomous technologies, artificial intelligence, and changing relations between humans and machines arranged by the CRAFT-research group and the ENCODE network at UiT.

In the spring term of 2023 the CRAFT-research group (BFE/UiT) and the ENCODE-network (HSL/UiT) have started a series of film screenings in cooperation with Verdensteatret Cinematek. The initiative is aimed at facilitaing the dissemination of research results from associated projects such as AGiC (NordForsk 2020-22), AFO-JIGG (RCN 2021-24) or Futures4Fish (RCN 2023-26), and at improving recruitment to relevant study programmes at BFE and HSL.

Each semester, scholars associated with CRAFT and/or ENCODE will select three movies that take up pressing issues such as automation and the development of autonomous technical systems, the implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, the societal, political, cultural, and economic ramifications of digitization, and the changing relations between humans and machines. Each film will be introduced by a scholar associated with the groups. After the screenings there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues taken up in the movies.

The film series is organized by CRAFT (BFE) and ENCODE (ISK/HSL) and supported by Verdensteatret Cinematek.

CRAFT & ENCOCDE present Spike Jonze's film Her (2013)