Join the Silicon Valley Archives in welcoming filmmaker Andrea Gatopoulos for a talk on their latest film, "The Eggregores Theory," on April 22, 2025, for an online presentation. Please register for the event ahead of time for the Zoom information. 

Reconstructing the culture, philosophies, and economic structures that gave rise to artificial intelligences, Andrea will try to deconstruct the apocalyptic fear that is associated with this technology.  The goal is a better understanding of AI’s limits as well as the potential it has to power up our creative energy and upscale the output of our world-building imagination. After the introduction, we will watch and delve into the making of my film, "The Eggregores' Theory", the first AI film to be screened at Venice Film Festival. 

Andrea Gatopoulos is an Italian and Greek director, producer and distributor. Member of EFA, Berlinale Talents, Locarno Spring Academy and TFL, he founded his company Il Varco, the short film distribution Gargantua and the avant-garde cinema residency Nouvelle Bug. He graduated in Literature and studied in workshops with W. Herzog, Radu Jude and A. Weerasethakul. His films deal with virtual realities, uncanny valleys, disillusion, anti-capitalism and critiques of progressivism. "Happy New Year, Jim" (2022) was the first machinima in Cannes, at the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In 2023 he presented in Locarno "Eschaton Ad", a film about the apocalyptic advent of AI. Later that year he presented "A stranger quest" (2023), his first documentary feature about the map collector David Rumsey at Torino Film Festival. In 2024 his short film "The Eggregores' Theory" opened the 39. Venice Film Critics' Week as the first AI film in Venice and was nominated for EFA by ZINEBI.