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“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room

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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

  1. “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”

  2. “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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