The Prediction Machine
The Prediction Machine
October - 2017
Duration 15 minutes
Director/ Producer: Marleine van der Werf
Camera: Remko Schnorr
Geluid: Abel Heijkamp
Editor: Jos Meijers
Sounddesign: Henke Jelle de Groot
Inititated & Produced by:
Radboud University & Inscience
SCREENINGS:
Inscience filmfestival, Nijmegen
Imagine science filmfestival, New York
Parisscience
Science filmfestival Abu Dhabi
+ winner scientist Award
NEST studio for the Arts, University of Colorado
Cinema Obscura, Enschede
Science communication conference, Portland, USA
The National Autonomous University of Mexico City
Sci-Art space State Studio, Berlin
Art Science Museum, Singapore
This screening has received funding through a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation
The short documentary is a collaboration between filmmaker Marleine van der Werf and Professor Floris de Lange who both research perception in their work. Both were invited and selected for this collaboration by the Radboud University and the Inscience filmfestival
The Prediction Machine, Short documentary
'The Prediction Machine’ focuses on the research of acclaimed Dutch neuroscientist Floris de Lange. In his 'Predictive brain lab’ he explores what expectations do with our perception. Inspired by the film 'Robocop' in his teens, De Lange became interested in the human brain and the question of whether you could reproduce it. But when he realized that no one has ever succeeded to create artificial intelligence that can perceive as well as humans do, this became his first step in his research to understand our brain.
DUTCH REVIEW by NEMO:
"The Prediction Machine is een mooie samensmelting van vorm en inhoud. De gebruikte lenzen, camerastandpunten en montage zorgen soms voor een bijna misselijkmakende ervaring, maar doordringen de kijker tegelijkertijd wel van de chaos aan informatie waarvan je brein de hele dag door maar chocola moet zien te maken. Dit ondersteunt heel beeldend het wetenschappelijke én persoonlijke verhaal dat Floris de Lange ondertussen vertelt. Na het zien van deze film is je ontzag voor je brein weer een beetje gegroeid."
English Interview with VOX about the film:
Rather than seeking definitive answers, the Dis_embodied Project stages experiential inquiries. Through artistic research-driven experiments, we create spaces where participants confront the instability of embodiment and reconsider the foundations of identity. If believing one does not exist can alter who one is, then the body is not merely a vessel but an active co-creator of selfhood. By investigating the limits and thresholds of embodiment, we aim to expand existing knowledge and invite new forms of dialogue between art, science, and lived experience—before the question of living without a body becomes no longer speculative, but real.