EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to documentary So Unreal, narrated by singer Debbie Harry.
Heralding from filmmaker Amanda Kramer (By Design), the “visible essay” explores a wave of sci-fi motion pictures between 1981 to 2001 that reckoned with synthetic intelligence, our on-line world, and digital actuality—movies together with Tron, Videodrome, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Hackers, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, and extra.
The movie, which options an electro soundtrack, excavates the “technophobic fantasies and digital needs that outlined a era’s fears and hopes for the longer term”. Pageant stops have included Rotterdam, CPH: DOX, Incredible Fest, and extra.
The deal was negotiated between Altered Innocence and the filmmakers. The corporate plans a theatrical and residential ent launch this fall. Worldwide gross sales are dealt with by Yellow Veil.
Kramer’s newest movie By Design, starring Juliette Lewis, debuted at this yr’s Sundance Movie Pageant.
“We’ve been big followers of Amanda Kramer’s work for a while now,” mentioned Frank Jaffe at Altered Innocence. “Her distinctive imaginative and prescient on this medium is completely trippy and value looking for out!”
Kramer added: “Frank at Altered Innocence is daring cinematic style supreme. We’re within the firm of true aesthetes; how dreamy for So Unreal to hang around on the cabinets with all of the AI jewels.”
