What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions and more while examining one of the latest major breakthroughs in AI technology – open language models that enable realistic conversations with virtual reality avatars built using characteristics of the deceased. In essence, bringing the dead to digital life. Through interviews with end users, tech experts, journalists, programmers and psychologists, a broad and analytical account unfolds to reveal the far-reaching and often disturbing implications of this new technology.

“A sprawling portrait of the emerging business that is digital afterlife technology” (Rolling Stone), ETERNAL YOU both glimpses what the future of death in capitalism holds and examines what the human costs might be.

“ETERNAL YOU isn’t really about overcoming death… It is about humans’ desperation to find meaning in life.” –The New York Times

DIRECTED BY HANS BLOCK & MORITZ RIESEWIECK
GERMANY, UNITED STATES | 2024 | ENGLISH, KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES