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World Brain

World Brain

2015 1h 13mDocumentaryScience Fiction

"World Brain" is an essayistic trans-media project by French artists Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin. The feature film as well as the interactive website takes the visitors on a dive through the physical shoals of the internet. World Brain explores the utopian dreams and ideologies connected to the development of collective intelligence and the idea of a worldwide network. "World Brain" follows the wanderings of a group of researchers who try to survive in the forest using Wikipedia, aiming at nothing less than the creation of an alternative project securing the survival of manhood.

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"World Brain" is an essayistic trans-media project by French artists Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin. The feature film as well as the interactive website takes the visitors on a dive through the physical shoals of the internet. World Brain explores the utopian dreams and ideologies connected to the development of collective intelligence and the idea of a worldwide network. "World Brain" follows the wanderings of a group of researchers who try to survive in the forest using Wikipedia, aiming at nothing less than the creation of an alternative project securing the survival of manhood.

Behind it

Stéphane DegoutinDirectorGwenola WagonDirector

Cast

Olivier BossonDirector Laboratory Schizophrenia
Stéphane PiveteauHimself
Philippe Durand
Catherine HargreavesHerself

Director

Stéphane Degoutin, Gwenola Wagon

Writers

Stéphane Degoutin, Gwenola Wagon

Release date

30 Jan 2015

Runtime

1h 13m

Studio

Arte Creative, Irreverence Films

Language

French

Country

France

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