“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
What it is
Victoria Warmerdam's Oscar-winning Dutch short film in which a woman fails a series of Captcha tests and is plunged into a strange new reality. It is a dark, Black Mirror-like sci-fi comedy.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN brings it up in threads about captchas, bots and AI agents as an excellent short film about being a robot.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2025, last 2026
What HN commenters said
“there is an excellent short movie online called "I'm not a Robot".”
Excellent short movie about being a robot
jjbinx007, 2026-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human”
“well, that was certainly special.”
Dutch sci-fi short, special and Black Mirror-like
Aachen, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies”
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Topics: short film, captcha, science fiction, ai identity, academy award
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