Marjorie Prime

Director: Michael Almereyda
Screenwriters: Michael Almereyda

Institute History

Description

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

Sunday, January 29, 10:30 a.m., Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie’s “Prime” relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past.

Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast and shot with the intimate rhythm of mortality, Marjorie Prime shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with death. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almereyda’s poetic film forces us to face the question—If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?

— Toby Brooks

Screening Details

Sundance Film Festival Awards

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