August 2023 - Ex Machina
This Monday, August 21st we will be screening the 2020 sc-fi thriller Ex Machina, written and directed by Alex Garland. The film follows a young computer programmer who agrees to spend a week on a tech CEO's private island for an experiment with artificial intelligence. With AI dominating news cycles, it will be really interesting to discuss what this movie has to say about the topic.

Cinema Club meets in the Aspen Drive Library Meeting Room in Vernon Hills. No registration is required. Add it to your calendar so you don't forget!

Here's a few articles to skim beforehand...
A New York Times essay about AI by Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland. This was written in 2015, recently after the film's release, but feels as if it could have been written today.

Note: If you hit a paywall, the library provides free access to NYTimes for cardholders.

"So here is a counterargument, in favor of the machines. In very broad terms, human behavior is frightening when it is unreasonable. And reason might be precisely the area where artificial intelligence excels.
More thoughts from Alex Garland. This interview for The Verge has some interesting comments about how the way in which we relate to technology as human beings could betray us in the end.

“In some respects, I think we are complicit, and in others I think we’re helpless, because realistically we may not have a choice but to involve ourselves with these things.”
Next Movie: Time
September 18, 2023
Aspen Drive Library Meeting Room
6:30pm - Film screening followed by discussion.

2020 | Rated PG-13 | 1h 21min
Documentary film tracing the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.

With Sibil Fox Richardson, Robert G. Richardson, Mahlik Richardson.

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