A.I. At War

In A.I. AT WAR, Florent Marcie has a companion named Zota, which is a small and complicated robot that he acquired in Malaysia. Zota’s program uses a sophisticated algorithm to allow it to learn. The interaction between Marcie and Zota is almost unbelievable, because the latter’s learning (she has a woman’s voice) capacity is verified and because her eyes are also a camera. The reverse shots of Marcie are literally the robot’s subjective POV. CELE DOUA compares the documentary recording of firing squad execution of Marshal Ion Antonescu’s execution by firing squad on June 1, 1946, the dictator who ruled the country from 1940 to 1944, to a later fictionalized reconstruction of the same event in the 1990s.