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I Am

Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2021 / I Am / Germany 2021

Somewhere in the near future, withdrawn Noé is out in the forest one day and finds a motionless figure lying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, she discovers this isn’t a human being at all but a perfectly formed female android. Noé takes the robotic body home with her, she repairs it, charges its battery, and ELA comes to life. The coexistence of two different entities presents certain problems, even though the machine tries its best to solve them. For one thing, it starts to imitate Noé’s behaviour…

I Am I Am

Synopsis

Somewhere in the near future, withdrawn Noé is out in the forest one day and finds a motionless figure lying on the ground. She realises this isn’t a human being at all but a perfectly formed female android. Noé takes the robotic body home with her, she repairs it, charges its battery, and ELA comes to life. The coexistence of two different entities presents certain problems, even though the machine tries its best to solve them. For one thing, it starts to imitate Noé’s behaviour… A film that raises all sorts of questions which, in today’s world, might seem infinitely remote, yet also uncomfortably relevant. Can artificial intelligence replace human empathy? Can we understand others without being able to relate to them? Isn’t “now” that moment which separates the familiar present from the unexplored, perhaps terrifying future?

Anna Kořínek

About the film

27 min / Color, DCP

Director Jerry Hoffmann / Screenplay Florens Huhn / Dir. of Photography Lena Katharina Krause / Music Daniel Sus / Editor Julia Kovalenko / Art Director Iris Trescher / Producer Stella Flicker / Production Hamburg Media School / Coproduction Bayerischer Rundfunk / Cast Sheri Hagen, Melodie Wakivuamina / Sales Hamburg ShortFilm Agency / Contact German Films

About the director

Jerry Hoffmann

Jerry Hoffmann (1989, Hamburg). Selected filmography: Mall (2019, short), 90% (2020, short), I Am (2021, short).

Contacts

German Films
Herzog-Wilhelm- Str. 16, 80331, München
Germany
Phone: +49 895 997 870
E-mail: [email protected]

Hamburg ShortFilm Agency
Bodenstedtstr. 16, 22765, Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Jerry Hoffmann
Film Director

Stella Flicker
Producer

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