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NEW GODS

Loïc Hobi
Elvetia/Franța
19 min.

Loïc Hobi’s docu-fictional hybrid revisits the 2014 massacre of Isla Vista, California, when six women were murdered by a male assailant. An artificial intelligence algorithm, cloaked under the haunting mantle of justice, investigates the motivations and frustrations of the killer, by looking at his virtual incel persona, LonerWolf58.

A deceptively simple, yet uneasy story of an incel’s ramblings about loneliness and lovelessness becomes a disconcerting study of his killing agenda. Loïc Hobi’s take on this tragic event is to cover it in a neutral, syncopated series of monologues, through the distorting prism of a virtual entity, an artificial intelligence. Here, the killer is merely the object of representation, a case study for how violence is abbreviated through memes and cynical posts on social media. Try as he might, the justice bot cannot overcome the fetishizing attraction that people have for antagonists. (Georgiana Mușat)

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Screening date and location

Friday, 19 November - Cinema Elvire Popesco

Blvd. Dacia 77
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Loïc Hobi

 Loïc Hobi studied at the École de la Cité de Luc Besson in Paris. In may 2019, he shot his final academic film: “L’Homme Jetée”, selected in many short-featured film festivals such as Busan, Barcelona, and Winterhur. This year, he also finished shooting „The Life Underground”, a coming of age story in the bowels of the underground.

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LENGTH: 19 min.

YEAR:  2020

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Switzerland/France

DIRECTOR: Loïc Hobi

CAST: Hubert Girard

SCRIPTWRITING: Loïc Hobi, Youri Najdovski

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Loïc Hobi

EDITING: Loïc Hobi

 

 

PRODUCTION: Skopéô Films, Venin Films

DISTRIBUTION: Skopéô Films

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