A machine learns to feel. You learn to cry. 19 minutes.
The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?
Acting
Giovanni Storti's gentle unraveling — he's teaching a wall and breaking your heart.
Direction
Clinical spaces that feel increasingly womb-like and wrong.
Director
Andrea Sbarbaro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The kindergarten setting weaponizes our cultural association between innocence and safety — making the AI's emotional awakening feel like corruption rather than growth.
Director Andrea Sbarbaro reportedly kept the 'child' AI's voice unscripted for final scenes, capturing genuine synthetic uncertainty.
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