Life Rewired Shorts

What does a ‘free world’ look like for humans? Exploring ideas around surveillance and freedom, animator Yanqi Liang presents 'Web Jungle', a surreal world where civilians are surveyed by a group of administrators who monitor the jungle. 

Miles Blacket presents his short film Hovering Between Us, exploring the digital disconnect between our digital lives and real day-to-day experience.

What if everything was the same - but it looked better? Emily Downe presents her animated short, 'Better', exploring the ideal worlds of a perfectionist culture.

Documentary maker Cecilia Valensise explores the transhumans already walking amongst us in the latest film in our Life Rewired Shorts series. 
 

If you were inside a machine which could simulate biochemical processes - would you be real? Or would you actually be just a series of 1s and 0s? Enter the world of online gaming and meet the people who inhabit these virtual territories. 

Is meat grown in a lab vegetarian? 'Meet Meat' puts the idea of meat under the microscope to hear both sides of the argument as we look ahead to the future of food production. 

Technology is rewiring our neurons and changing both our physical movements and inner thought processing. Klaas Diersmann presents an experimental and eerie depiction of our intimate yet divisive and compulsive relationships with these technologies.

How much do you rely on technology? Meet the residents of a remote community in the heart of the Scottish Highlands in ‘WiFi in the Glen’ to learn some of the surprising ways technology has influenced this ancient place.  

How could the potential of technology impact the way we perceive reproduction and ultimately human life? We explore the future of reproductive medicine in The Children of Tomorrow. 

What if you could live forever but just didn’t want to? In Ollie Wolf’s ‘The Last Forever Woman’, we meet Alma, an immortal 217-year old who is feeling just that. 
 

In Vivek Vadoliya's 'Kasaragod Boys', we meet a group of young boys, living in the predominately Muslim district of Kasaragod and see the world the way they project it online through social media.  

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley, a nostalgic and familiar place that looks and feels very much like the human experience, but with something a bit strange in the corner of your eye...