AI: African Intelligence

AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence for such improbable algorithms?

Cast

Marymata Seck

Self

Diyé Dia

Self

Raoul Frese

Self

Makhou Lebougui

Self

Jean-Paul Colleyn

Self

Hadja Dramé

Self

Marieme Seck

Self

Oulimata Ndoye

Self

Awa Diop

Self

Mamadou Diouf

Self

Crew

Manthia Diawara

Director

Jürgen Bock

Producer

Bernardo Theriaga

Sound

Daman Diawara

Assistant Director

Carlos Alberto Carrilho

Production Manager

James Newitt

Director of Photography

Mohamed Al Mubarak

Editor

Clips & Videos

AI: AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE de Manthia Diawara (2022) – trailer