weird to be human

A bureaucratic science-fiction short.

In the year 2194, transfers between the digital and physical worlds have become commonplace and bodies are cultivated for artificial intelligences seeking a human-like physical form. In one of these transference facilities, an immigration officer (Michal Balicki) from the Department of Embodiments arrives to interrogate a being (Agnieszka Rajda) in the midst of completing its transformation. Partially inspired by Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick, Jan Grabowski’s WEIRD TO BE HUMAN provocatively explores distanced dehumanization of the “other” in an unsettling manner that’s especially pertinent in today’s ICE age. – Mitch Davis