Tagged technology

This week sees the release of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – a documentary about the Hollywood icon whose contributions to communication technology have been largely overlooked. Louis B. Mayer may have...

Death by Design is a hard-hitting documentary about the global implications of our consumption of technology. From the appalling human and environmental effects in the creation of technology to their dangerous...

https://vimeo.com/127949242 This confident and atmospheric short may not be flashy, but its ambling, observational pace and detailed soundscape piques the curiosity. With charmingly stylised visuals...

For modern audiences, there is something delightful about the technology of the ‘80s and ‘90s on film. Whether it’s a brick-sized mobile phone or impossible operating systems, the mix of scorn and...

Maybeland is a new feature exploring all the Brave New Worlds of cinema, a look at the various visions of the future – utopic, dystopic and in-between – that all have their own style, predictions and ideas...

Which is worse: a bad film or a disappointing one? Transcendence manages to be both at the same time. Wally Pfister’s directorial debut is a fractured crazy pavement, cementing together thick slabs of...

The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...

Whether you view Her as a vision of dystopia or utopia rather depends on your relationship with technology. To Theodore (Phoenix) it is at once the reason and remedy for his loneliness. He is struggling to...