Synopsis
No God No Father is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving, to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than a simple search engine, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual.
A word from Tënk
The filmmaker belongs to Generation Z, that liminal generation, witness to the democratization of computers, the rise of the Internet, and more recently, artificial intelligences. I, too, grew up during the boom of web culture and social media—those virtual, compensatory spaces that emerged in the early 2000s and have since become deeply embedded in our lives.
In this digital chamber, filmmaker Paul Kermarec scrolls through web applications, moving from Google searches to an intimate conversation with ChatGPT. Artificial intelligences are created and recreated from replicas of replicas, revealing less a true autonomy than a disquieting mirror of our gaps and inheritances. On the other hand, forums and web cultures lay the foundations for new forms of knowledge, where individual stories gradually merge into a collective memory: that of the “children of the Internet,” to which the director explicitly refers. The film interrogates the anthropomorphization of AI, which simulates human language to reproduce a normality shaped by texts on the web, reflecting the complex relationships we maintain with technological innovations and the illusory comfort we seek in them.
Morgane Ferrero
Programmer of REGARD
