Colossus: The Forbin Project
Science fiction pushes the boundaries, explores the improbable, and envisions the future of humanity. It also exposes us to extravagant visual effects and the inventive power of cinema, reflecting our deepest fantasies. In cinema, science fiction is immersive, creating worlds suddenly within our reach. This summer, over one hundred films from the history of cinema will allow us to witness this!
16 mm print loaned by the Cineclub Film Society
In the midst of the Cold War, Colossus, a supercomputer created by the United States to defend the country, discovers the existence of its Soviet alter ego, Guardian. The two systems come into contact, develop their own language, become aware of their own identity and decide to take full power. Based on a novel by Dennis Feltham Jones, Joseph Sargent's film imagines the potential of computers in a particularly chilling way, with insights whose visionary quality is astonishing today.
Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent was an American film director. Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature-length works are arguably the science-fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), the action movie White Lightning (1973) starring Burt Reynolds, the biopic MacArthur (1977) starring Gregory Peck, and the horror anthology Nightmares (1983). His most popular feature film is the subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career.
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Ces robots qui nous côtoient
Le cinéma a grandement contribué à forger notre imaginaire des robots. Androïdes d’apparence humaine et créatures mécaniques aux formes plus rustiques n’ont pas été employés de la même façon, ni dans leur questionnement de la moralité humaine, ni pour les sentiments qu’ils éveillent auprès du public. À l’heure où l’intelligence artificielle est bien réelle, retour sur quelques classiques robots de cinéma.
