AI: African Intelligence

Senegalese healing rituals become the center of philosophical questions: If technological development continues to advance and algorithms will soon be involved in determining procedures of the world, will this be accompanied by a growing need for spirituality and bodily forms of knowledge? Manthia Diawara doesn’t know the answers, so he sits down in front of the camera to discuss them with guests. An essay film that is classic in the best possible sense, unpretentious and patient, carried by an infectious desire to think and discuss, free and light-footed like a dance. (Dennis Vetter)