Feature Documentary: The Singularity

Doug Wolens / 57' / USA / 2012

Saturday 5.11.2016, 17:00 – 18:00
 

Official film website: www.thesingularityfilm.com Within the coming decades we’ll have the ability to create computers with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and redesign matter through nanotechnology, what will it mean to be human? Acclaimed as “a large-scale achievement in its documentation of futurist and counter-futurist ideas” and “the best documentary on the Singularity to date,” THE SINGULARITY is rich with insight, while remaining accessible to mainstream audiences. Some of the world’s leading thinkers, futurists and counter-futurists are interviewed, including Ray Kurzweil, Leon Panetta, Bill McKibben and Richard A. Clarke. THE SINGULARITY is an engaging tool for critical thinking about future technologies.

Synopsis

Within the coming decades, we’ll have the ability to create computers with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and redesign matter through nanotechnology.  How will these technologies change what it means to be human?

Production Credits

Director, Producer, Editor: Doug Wolens

Director's Bio

Doug Wolens is a Sundance-celebrated documentarian who came to filmmaking after practicing law in New York City. His first short, Happy Loving Couples, screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and his two other shorts, Reversal (1994) and In Frame (1995), also played at film festivals around the world, while his 1996 feature documentary, Weed, premiered at the International Documentary Film festival in Amsterdam.
In 2000, Wolens’ feature documentary Butterfly aired on PBS’s POV series and The Sundance Channel, and he successfully self-distributed Butterfly to more than 50 U.S. theatres.  Wolens lives in San Francisco with his wife Katie and son Theo.  He is currently in production on a documentary about New Urbanism.