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Director
David Burke
Credits
Producers: David Burke, Seán Ó Cualáin.
Cinematographer:JJ Rolfe
Principal Cast
Dr Phil Kennedy
Category
FeatureDocumentary
A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’. Travelling to South America in 2014, he made further headlines when tiny electrodes were implanted inside his brain in order to continue his research. This film examines the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where technology and human brains combine. Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland
90 minutes, Ireland, 2020, Colour
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 13.00
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND 13.40, 18.05
I’M STILL HERE 20.20
INGMAR BERGMAN: CRIES AND WHISPERS 18.30
MICKEY 17 15.10, 18.00, 20.30
THE BRUTALIST (70MM) 14.00
THE LAST SHOWGIRL 16.00
VERMIGLIO 20.50
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council