Sundance Bound ‘Eternal You,’ Exec Produced by Oscar Winner Davis Guggenheim, Explores AI as Comfort for the Living in First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck’s documentary “Eternal You,” which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the world cinema doc competition section on Saturday, explores ways that artificial intelligence is being used to comfort the bereaved.
The doc follows people from around the globe who are using AI to to create avatars of the deceased people to allow their loved ones to interact with them.
The 87-minute film features one subject who chats with the digital clone of his deceased first love and lets her take part in his everyday life.
Another subject meets the VR clone of her deceased seven year-old daughter. Block and Riesewieck, whose debut film, “The Cleaners,” made its world premiere at Sundance in 2018, also explore the moral responsibility of the startup companies that are using AI to create digital replicas of the dead. “Moritz and I discovered a void that hundreds of millions people feel,” says Block. “They can no longer believe in the promise of life after death with God, the religious rites of mourning have become meaningless to them.
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