Imitation Machines

| #10 The Violence of the Gaze
(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

CN: Suicide
The suicide rate in prisons is ten times higher than in the general population. Instead of improving prison conditions, politicians rely on solutions using modern technology. IMITATION MACHINES documents the training process of an artificial intelligence that is supposed to predict and prevent prisoner suicides in German prisons.

  • Duration: 7 Min.
  • Countries: Germany
  • Languages: German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2025
  • Premiere: World Premiere

  • Director: Alex Bartsch
  • Camera: Jonas Eisenschmidt
  • Editing: Alex Bartsch
  • Sound: Tobias Adam
  • Production: Constanze Wolpers