Description
Premiere of the acclaimed documentary film Ghost in the Machine (2026, 95 min) directed by Valerie Veatch at Cinema Orion, with the film director joining for QA online.
Ghost in the Machine is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.
Rejecting the notion of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how myths of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas, revealing the ideological foundations beneath the systems now reshaping modern society.
Post-screening discussion with director Valerie Veatch, invited experts and audience QA, hosted by Dr. Nitin Sawhney, Docent at University of Helsinki & Uniarts Helsinki.
“Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race… tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” - Oliver Jones, The Observer
Cinema Orion
22.10.2026
17.15-19.30
Tickets 10/12,50€
Performed in English
Ghost in the Machine is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.
Rejecting the notion of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how myths of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas, revealing the ideological foundations beneath the systems now reshaping modern society.
Post-screening discussion with director Valerie Veatch, invited experts and audience QA, hosted by Dr. Nitin Sawhney, Docent at University of Helsinki & Uniarts Helsinki.
“Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race… tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” - Oliver Jones, The Observer
Cinema Orion
22.10.2026
17.15-19.30
Tickets 10/12,50€
Performed in English
Source: City of Helsinki, Linked Events (CC BY 4.0)
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When
22. October 2026, 17:15
Where
Cinema Orion
Eerikinkatu 15, Helsinki
Price
Cheap (<€20)
12,50€
Audience
All audiences
Organizer
Elokuvateatteri Orion
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