ETERNAL YOU

By Hans BLOCK, Moritz RIESEWIECK

DOGWOOF - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2024

If you had the chance to talk to a loved one who died, would you take it?
ETERNAL YOU delves into the world of startups using AI to create avatars of the deceased. A film about what might become one of the greatest human experiments of our time.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2024
World Cinema Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, USA, NETHERLANDS
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hans BLOCK, Moritz RIESEWIECK
    • Synopsis
    • ETERNAL YOU accompanies people from around the globe who use artificial intelligence (AI) to “connect with the dead”. Joshua chats day and night with the digital clone of his deceased first love and lets her take part in his everyday life. Christi just wants confirmation that her late best friend is doing well in heaven, but has a harrowing experience with his AI likeness. Jang Ji-Sung meets the VR clone of her deceased 7-yr-old daughter. The inventors of the services deny any responsibility for the profound psychological consequences of those experiences. Numerous competitors hope for a lucrative market, as religious and collective forms of mourning are losing relevance. Is this the beginning of the end of finitude?