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Directors Tilda Swinton and Bartek Dziadosz’s documentary asks an essential question: how will humans harness technology and nature to learn in the years to come? Swinton and Dziadosz travel through the cultures of several regions—the U.K., Bangladesh, West Africa and North America—to interview scientists, educators, intellectuals, and students to observe their learning practices. But this is no by-the-books documentary; their ambitious narrative bends time, imagining a future in 2042 to search for the bounds and limits of artificial intelligence as a teaching tool. Swinton and Dziadosz’s film is a fractal, sensorial experience with a creative form, evocative score and overwhelming vision. Miraculously, they manage the trick of connecting the art of basket weaving to Alice in Wonderland to the shape of beehives to the evolving understanding of the human mind. (Telluride Film Festival)
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