Science fiction as a genre has the ability to reveal intimate aspects of the human condition while also exploring fantastic stories set in far futures or distant worlds. While modern blockbusters tend to focus on the spectacle of the genre that is provided with the magic of visual effects, Kogonada's sophomore feature, After Yang, takes the genre at its most minimalistic and personal, using artificial humans to explore everything from memories, to identity, to culture, in the best movie about…

Absolute denial is a 2021 SF animation by Ryan Braund. It is about a programmer who wants to creates a super intelligent AI machine which is far superior to a human but in the ends becomes the victim of his own success.

Outline

A programmer, David, creates a super intelligent AI which is to learn from David's base code but a so-called absolute denial protocol is in place. As the computer learns it becomes more and more human.

At first…