Meander Film Screening (Lyric Shorts Series)

As artificial intelligence replaces health care (and other) workers in our increasingly elderly global population, companies engineering AI continue to put profits above human suffering, extreme wealth inequality and emerging problems of AI sentience. The sum spells disaster for the human race in the dystopian world of Meander, which evokes both ancient Greek mythology and near-future science fiction. Meander finds herself destitute in the Underworld with no way to finance escape other than offering her biological potential for surrogate pregnancy up to dubious experimentation in an underground facility. Meanwhile, filmmaker/narrator, Lexi Bass recounts her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood at the precipice of age 40 and the loss of her own mother shortly after, questioning the future of humanity at the precipice of Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super-Intelligence.

As part of the Lyric Shorts Series – If you are interested in showing your short film/documentary, please send an email to Christian@lexingtonlyric.com