Director: Manthia Diawara
Assistant Director:
Daman Diawara
Production: Jürgen Bock,
Lumiar Cité/Maumaus
Assistant Producer: Carlos Alberto Carrilho, Lumiar Cité/Maumaus
Camera: James Newitt
Sound: Bernardo Theriaga
Editing: Mohamed Al Mubarak
Country: Portugal
Year: 2022
Runtime: 110'
HD Video, colour, sound
Languages: English, French, Wolof
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Wolof

With Mère-Bi (Marymata Seck), Diyé Dia, Raoul Frese, Makhou Lebougui, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Mamadou Diouf, Hadja Dramé, Marieme Seck, Oulimata Ndoye, Awa Diop, Mame Yaame, Marieme Diallo.

Commissioned by Gluon, Brussels. Curated by Christophe de Jaeger.

Supported by Snowball, Creative Europe, Horizon 2020 S+T+ARTS Programme of the European Union, Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

Premiere:
Cinema Palace, Brussels, 28.11.2022

International premiere:
Berlin International Film Festival, 16.02.2023

Manthia Diawara’s latest essay film, AI: African Intelligence, explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession among traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technology 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 of such improbable algorithms?

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