The Very Near Future – (or How AI Will Really Take Over)

Do you worry about artificial intelligence taking over? Do you think that we already live in The Matrix? Or are you one of those people who believe that we will all be destroyed by a Judgement Day kind of event, accompanied by a couple of million robots who look like an old Austrian?  Well, think again.

We’re all going to live, apparently.  Yet AI is going to make our lives such a living hell that we might as well be dead.  Take Joey (played by Marcel Romeijn) as an example.  All he wants to do is to order a luscious, chewy, mouth-watering but completely unhealthy XXL Triple Cheese Pizza online.  However, his AI assistant has other ideas.  Joey’s supper turns into some serious trouble.

The Very Near Future“ was written, shot and post-produced within 36 hours at Kinokabaret in Hamburg, Germany.  It was written and directed by Sebastian Egert. Without any irony whatsoever, the voice of Joey’s AI assistant is played by a human, Julia Casper – a very well-known video game voiceover artist.  The fight back begins…