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Hoping for some exciting sci-fi before “Dune” arrives? Try this selection of overlooked nuggets.

On Sept. 10 the Norman Film Festival will be hosting its fifth film screening.

1 min Lesezeit 11.07.2021, 02:02 Uhr In Neuenburg ist am Abend die 20. Ausgabe des Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival zu Ende gegangen. Wegen der Corona-Pandemie fand die Ausgabe teilweise vor Ort, teilweise digital statt. Insgesamt hätten sich 34’000 Personen die Filme angeschaut, teilt das Festival mit. Als bester Film ausgezeichnet wurde die US-Produktion «Lapsis». Darin geht es um einen jungen Mann, der einen seltsamen, aber lukrativen Job übernimmt: Er verlegt kilomete...

Le NIFFF et sa formule inédite ont ravi un nombreux public à Neuchâtel Le NIFFF et sa formule inédite ont ravi un nombreux public à Neuchâtel / Le Journal horaire / 1 min. / aujourdhui à 09:00 Avec 29000 spectateurs, dont 2000 en ligne, le NIFFF, festival neuchâtelois du film fantastique, a tenu toutes ses promesses, se félicitent les organisateurs. Le prix Narcisse H.R.Giger a été décerné à "Lapsis" de l’Américain Noah Hutton et le prix du public à "Tides" du Bâlois Tim Fehl...

Barry Healy reviews Lapsis, a sci-fi film in which gig economy workers are manipulated into competing with each other — and with robots — to make a living.

Spotlight Report Lapsis is a rare pleasure of a film: low budget science fiction that’s well made, thoughtful and funny. Directed by Noah Hutton, with a great, fun performance by Dean Imperial, this is a Kaufman-esque satire that takes a hearty swing at the modern gig economy. Set in some sort of parallel world, the corporation CBLR offers rewards to cable-runners for laying optical fibre through the woods to facilitate quantum computing. Ray (Imperial) is a working class schlub f...

In Silico doesn't look slick, but it is a sharply scripted documentary about an ambitious, billion-euro project to model the intricacies of the human brain – and in just 10 years, says Simon Ings

It’s one thing to participate in guerilla filmmaking and another to clandestinely shoot a film that could land you in jail or worse.

Spotlight Report Noah Hutton’s 1 of 5 Double passes to see the film! About the film Set in an alternative New York, the quantum computing revolution has begun, and investors are lining their pockets. However, building the network requires miles of infrastructure to be laid between huge magnetic cubes by “cablers”, a group of unprotected gig workers who have to compete against robots to pull wires over rough terrain.   Delivery man Ray Tincelli ( Dean Imperial) is both scepti...

Credit: eNeuro 2021 eNeuro is publishing a special collection of commentaries on April 30, 2021 on the neuroscience documentary In Silico. The collection, titled "Epistemological Lessons from the Blue and Human Brain Projects," features reactions to the documentary from leading neuroscientists as well as a discussion on brain modelling and massive research collaborations in general. Noah Huttons In Silico follows neuroscientist Henry Markram and his attempt to develop a computer model of the ...