World Brain

World Brain

73 mins | Documentary, Science Fiction | Jan. 30, 2015

"World Brain" is an essayistic trans-media project by French artists Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin. The feature film as well as the interactive website takes the visitors on a dive through the physical shoals of the internet. World Brain explores the utopian dreams and ideologies connected to the development of collective intelligence and the idea of a worldwide network. "World Brain" follows the wanderings of a group of researchers who try to survive in the forest using Wikipedia, aiming at nothing less than the creation of an alternative project securing the survival of manhood.

World Brain

73 mins | Documentary, Science Fiction | Jan. 30, 2015

World Brain
"World Brain" is an essayistic trans-media project by French artists Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin. The feature film as well as the interactive website takes the visitors on a dive through the physical shoals of the internet. World Brain explores the utopian dreams and ideologies connected to the development of collective intelligence and the idea of a worldwide network. "World Brain" follows the wanderings of a group of researchers who try to survive in the forest using Wikipedia, aiming at nothing less than the creation of an alternative project securing the survival of manhood.
Producers Irreverence Films, Arte Creative
Original title World Brain
Directors Gwenola Wagon, Stéphane Degoutin
Writers Gwenola Wagon, Stéphane Degoutin

Cast

Olivier Bosson

as Director Laboratory Schizophrenia

Stéphane Piveteau

as Himself