AI: African Intelligence

1h 50m
Documentary
10

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?

Cast

Marymata Seck
Self
Diyé Dia
Self
Raoul Frese
Self
Makhou Lebougui
Self
Jean-Paul Colleyn
Self
Hadja Dramé
Self
Marieme Seck
Self
Oulimata Ndoye
Self
Awa Diop
Self
Mamadou Diouf
Self
Manthia Diawara
Self

Crew

Manthia Diawara
Director
Mohamed Al Mubarak
Editor
James Newitt
Director of Photography
Daman Diawara
Assistant Director
Jürgen Bock
Producer
Bernardo Theriaga
Sound
Carlos Alberto Carrilho
Production Manager

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