After Yang
Thu
5
Thu May 5 6:30 PM
Selling Fast
Jetty Memorial Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
100 Percent
Allocated Seating
96 Mins
WINNER · ALFRED P. SLOAN FEATURE FILM PRIZE · SUNDANCE
From acclaimed essayist and director Kogonada (Columbus), After Yang is a future set, soulful meditation on the nature of the self and memory, punctuated by moments of humour and grace.
When his young daughter’s beloved companion (an android named Yang) malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers that life that has been passing by in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance, he didn’t know was there. Warm in its aesthetics and a tender inversion of sci-fi tropes, After Yang flips the trusted theme of an android dreaming of a human life – instead imagining a future where humans seek to understand meaning, loss and family through the eyes of AI.
“A soulful and heartbreaking meditation on impermanence full of poignant wonder and riches of human grace." - The Playlist
From acclaimed essayist and director Kogonada (Columbus), After Yang is a future set, soulful meditation on the nature of the self and memory, punctuated by moments of humour and grace.
When his young daughter’s beloved companion (an android named Yang) malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers that life that has been passing by in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance, he didn’t know was there. Warm in its aesthetics and a tender inversion of sci-fi tropes, After Yang flips the trusted theme of an android dreaming of a human life – instead imagining a future where humans seek to understand meaning, loss and family through the eyes of AI.
“A soulful and heartbreaking meditation on impermanence full of poignant wonder and riches of human grace." - The Playlist