The Luxury
of Being Obsolete
The film
Under the shade of an inflatable plastic palm tree, the day passes lazily across sunlit plains.
The characters that populate them are subtly infiltrated by a force that shapes social interactions, redefines leisure activities, and relentlessly harvests the data they create: the internet is feeding on them. With the looming rise of generative AI, it seems closer than ever to swallow them whole.
But what happens when the dream they helped inflate no longer needs them to sustain itself?
Still made by humans.
- Written & directed by
- Rinus Bot
- Producer & co-director
- Eva van Dée
- Generative art
- Sabrina Verhage
- Sound design
- Obanza Banini
- Colourist
- Martin Sinkgraven
- Associate producer
- Elze Vermaas
- Motion capture performer
- Piotr Migdal
- Production
- Plastic Palm Tree Productions
- Starring
- Gunnar de Jong · Anne Hofstra · Shreya de Souza · Alexander Gierholz · Thomas Steigenga · Maya de Bresser · Lucia Slot · Chris Bergstresser