Sundance Film Festival 2024

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Being (the Digital Griot) Being (the Digital Griot)
Being (the Digital Griot) and Eno
Being (the Digital Griot) (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Rashaad Newsome (Lead Artist))
In this innovative participatory experience, Being, an artificial intelligence digital griot, asks the audience to engage in unifying and challenging discussions. It features a soundscape and movement informed by a dataset from Black communities, theorists, poets, and activists, including bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Dazié Grego-Sykes, and Cornel West.
Eno (Year: 2024; Director: Gary Hustwit)
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno - known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums - reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
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