Thursday, August 13, 2015

Ex Machina (UK: Alex Garland, 2015)




Ex Machina (UK: Alex Garland, 2015: 108 mins)

Alpert, Roger. "Alex Garland’s Ex Machina: The gender of artificial intelligence and the triumph of enlightenment." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)

---. "A.I. at the Movies and the Second Coming." Senses of Cinema #88 (October 2018)

Bluegrass Film Society Responses to Ex Machina (August 2015)

Booker, M. Keith. "EX MACHINA (2014, Director Alex Garland)." Comments on Culture (ND)

De Fren, Allison. "The Human Machine in Ex Machina." Keyframe (March 16, 2016)

Ex Machina. Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)

"Ex Machina." The Film Stage #139 (April 27, 2015)

Fitzpatrick, Veronica. "'Can I Fuck This?': Alex Garland’s Ex Machina." cléo 5.1 (2017)

Like Stories of Old. "The Problem of Other Minds – How Cinema Explores Consciousness." (Posted on Youtube: May 31, 2018) ["How have films engaged the problem of other minds? In this video essay, I discuss cinematic explorations into consciousness in the context of the cognitive revolution that has challenged many of the basic assumptions about what was for a long time believed to be a uniquely human trait." Uses Frans de Waal's book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?: "Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition--in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos--to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal--and human--intelligence."]

Lyttleton, Oliver. "Alex Garland's Gripping, Brilliant, And Sensational Ex Machina." The Playlist (January 21, 2015)

Peaceful Stoner. "Ex Machina." Letterboxd (August 13, 2015)

Romney, Jonathan. "Inside Your Head: Conceptual Science Fiction." Sight and Sound (February 24, 2015)

Tucker, Michael. "Ex Machina: The Control of Information." (Posted on Youtube: December 20, 2016)

Von Appen, Joe, Erik McClanahan, and Rodrigo Perez. "A Spoiler Heavy Talk About Alex Garland's Ex Machina." The Playlist (May 4, 2015)

Watercutter, Angela. "Ex Machina has a Serious Fembot Problem." Wired (April 9, 2015)





























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