Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Marjorie Prime Michael Almereyda, Trailer

In the near future—a time of artificial intelligence—86-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?

CREDITS

Writer and director: Michael Almereyda
Producer: Uri Singer
Editor: Kathryn J. Schubert
Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams
Production designer: Javiera Varas
Composer: Mica Levi
Principal cast: Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, Tim Robbins

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Technology

AWARDS

2017, Sundance Institute: Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.