Trailer
Year
2024
Length
87 min
Directors
Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck
Eternal You
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
Synopsis
ETERNAL YOU accompanies people from around the globe who use artificial intelligence (AI) to “connect with the dead”. Joshua chats day and night with the digital clone of his deceased first love and lets her take part in his everyday life. Christi just wants confirmation that her late best friend is doing well in heaven, but has a harrowing experience with his AI likeness. Jang Ji-Sung meets the VR clone of her deceased 7-yr-old daughter. The inventors of the services deny any responsibility for the profound psychological consequences of those experiences. Numerous competitors hope for a lucrative market, as religious and collective forms of mourning are losing relevance. Is this the beginning of the end of finitude?
Credits
Directors
Hans Block
Moritz Riesewieck
Producers
Christian Beetz
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Executive Producers
Kathrin Isberner
Christopher Clements
Julie Goldman
Anna Godas
Oli Harbottle
Lizzie Fox
Davis Guggenheim
Jenny Raskin
Kelsey Koenig
Co-Executive Producer
Meryl Metni
Co-Producer
Patrick M. Müller
Producer
Lena Raith
Zora Nessl
Editors
Anne Jünemann
Lisa Zoe Geretschläger
Directors of Photography
Tom Bergmann
Konrad Waldmann
Music
Gregor Keienburg
Raffael Seyfried
Sound Design
Jonathan Schorr
Dialogue Editor
Robert Keilbar
Re-Recording Mixer
Tobias Fleig
Commissioning editors
Christiane Hinz, Jutta Krug – WDR/arte
Dirk Neuhoff, Barbara Biemann – NDR
Matthias Leybrand, Carlos Gerstenhauer – BR
Mirjam Dolderer – SWR
Rolf Bergmann – rbb
Urs Augstburger – SRF
Sven Wälti – SRG SSR
Barbara Truyen – VPRO
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
- Press photos
