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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
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: COLD COMFORT (PROGRAMME 1) 12.40
BLUE MOON 15.40
BUGONIA 13.20 (Digital)
HORSESHOE 13.00
IFI YOUTH PANEL: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN 18.00
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 18.10
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 13.00
PILLION 18.00
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 15.50
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 15.00
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