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manipulation

documentary

To unleash the demons of artificial intelligence

Tonje Hessen Schei: iHUMAN

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:: The film draws us into a dark and fascinating field of research. But are we convinced that the development of artificial intelligence is beyond our control?
Anders Dunk -
PHOTO

The explosive power of the snapshot

Maria Pasenau: Whit Kind Regrets

ABOUT THE PHOTO BOOK: An intense and ambiguous conversation in several layers about the photo book, which with its context premise elevates the snapshot.
Ellen Lande -
literature

Confined by their own family

Tara Westover, Katy Morgan-Davies: Educated / The Girl In the Shadows

CATCHED: In two autobiographies we get to know Tara Westover and Katy Morgan-Davies, respectively, who were both brainwashed, manipulated, abused and held captive by their own family – until they finally managed to escape.
Pinar Ciftci -
documentary

Indie pop sensation AURORA's creation

Benjamin Langeland, Stian Servoss: Once upon a time Aurora

MUSIC INDUSTRY: Once Aurora paints a picture of an industry that is willing to use the artist AURORA as a tool to promote her own ambitions instead of stimulating her own creative independence.
Carmen Gray -
literature

The finance elite's manipulation of reality

Arne de Boever: Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

THE PARADOX OF MONEY: Arne de Boever explores how the unstable reality of finances makes people psychotic – and pushes literary realism to its outer limits.
Anders Dunk -

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