Ex_Machina

Published: May 14, 2016, 12:38 p.m.

b"Dario returns to the School of Film and Television at Falmouth University to host a screening of Alex Garland's Sci-Fi drama Ex_Machina. He is joined on-stage by Dr Verena Von Eicken who selected the film and they discuss its potential to be read as a metaphorical critique of gendered power relations and the male gaze. Neil and Dario also discuss issues around the narrative structure of film, Alex Garland as a writer director and other recent examples of hard Sci-Fi such as Her (2013) and Under the Skin (2013).\\nShow Notes:\\xa0\\nLink to Laura Mulvey's seminal 1975 essay Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema\\nLink to Donna Haraway's 1983 essay The Cyborg Manifesto"