Directed by John Carpenter • 1974 • United States
Starring Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm

John Carpenter made his feature debut with this gleefully gonzo science-fiction satire, which began life as a student film and went on to become a cult classic. Onboard the titular spaceship, a t...

Directed by Steve Barron • 1984 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield

This awesomely ’80s comedy puts a sci-fi spin on the classic love-triangle premise with the tale of a man who finds himself in a romantic rivalry with his PC. Nerdy archi...

Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2002 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak

Tilda Swinton plays four roles in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s feminist sci-fi brain-bender about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (SRAs), which she cloned from her own...

Directed by Ian Cheng • 2021 • United States
Starring Poonam Basu, Cherami Leigh, Dana Lee

In this innovative anime created by artist Ian Cheng in the Unity game engine, neural engineer Dr. Wong installs an experimental AI named BOB (“Bag of Beliefs”) into the nervous system of his ten-year-old ...

Directed by Chris Cunningham • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Björk

Two machine-manufactured automatons experience a moment of tenderness in the music video for the single from Björk’s album “Homogenic.”

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2013 • France
Starring Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah

With a cast featuring Edith Scob and Esther Garrel, this delirious espionage farce resembles what might have happened if ZERO DARK THIRTY had been written by Georges Bataille.

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2016 • Portugal
Starring Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda Nomacce

Taking Wittgenstein’s assertion that the most profound problems can only be discussed in the form of jokes as a starting point, OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAIS (“The Artificial Humors”) combines old-Hol...