AI: African Intelligence (2023)
AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence for such improbable algorithms?
Director: Manthia Diawara
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Marymata Seck as Self |
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Diyé Dia as Self |
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Raoul Frese as Self |
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Makhou Lebougui as Self |
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Jean-Paul Colleyn as Self |
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Hadja Dramé as Self |
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Marieme Seck as Self |
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Oulimata Ndoye as Self |
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Awa Diop as Self |
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Mamadou Diouf as Self |
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Manthia Diawara as Self |
| Directing | Manthia Diawara | Director |
| Camera | James Newitt | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Mohamed Al Mubarak | Editor |
| Sound | Bernardo Theriaga | Sound |
| Directing | Daman Diawara | Assistant Director |
| Production | Carlos Alberto Carrilho | Production Manager |
| Production | Jürgen Bock | Producer |