Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Grief and tech collide in uneasily brilliant sci-fi film The Remotes Shown at the New York Film Festival, John Torres’s film The Remotes tells of a mysterious app that seems to be controlling drivers' bodies, causing them to crash. It is challenging but worth it, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan Drivers use an app that tells them how to drive in The Remotes The promise of much modern technology is that it will make our lives easier and take some burdens off our shoulders.
An AI chatbot can tweak your emails; a delivery service can spare you the walk to a restaurant. But when does wanting to let go of something burdensome cross into giving up control? In John Torres’s _The Remotes_, grief, control and technology ominously intertwine on dark roads near Manila in the Philippines.
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