LAPSIS
By Noah Hutton, USA
May 9th - May 15th

Online

In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the scheme, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers, or to get rich and get out.

Accompanying our free screening of Lapsis (2020), check out 'Controller of the Universe?' a reading list by Julian Posada exploring widespread applications of Artificial Intelligence, the expansion of the gig economy, and how technology effects⁠—and may affect⁠—migration

Runtime: 108 minutes
Language: English, English captions

NOAH HUTTON

Noah Hutton is a writer and director of documentary and narrative films. He was nominated for a 2021 Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Lapsis, a sci-fi feature he wrote, directed, scored, and edited, which premiered in the narrative feature competition at SXSW 2020 and was released by Film Movement in 2021. In 2020 he completed In Silico, a ten-year documentary begun in 2009 and supported by Sandbox Films and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation about a ten-year project to simulate the human brain on supercomputers. Previously he directed the documentary features Deep Time (SXSW 2015) and Crude Independence (SXSW 2009).