Murmrr, Pressman Films & Circle Collective Present

About A Hero

NY Premiere

7 PM - Doors

8 PM - Screening

9:30 PM - Q&A with director Piotr Winiewicz and KASPAR, the artificial intelligence behind the About A Hero story. 

Join us for a special screening of ABOUT A HERO, Piotr Winiewicz’s genre-bending film created from a story generated by KASPAR, an AI trained - with Werner Herzog’s permission - on Herzog’s body of work.

Following the screening, Winiewicz will participate in a one-of-a-kind Q&A alongside KASPAR, exploring the film’s central questions around authorship, originality, consent, creativity and the limits of machine-made meaning. The conversation will offer audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from both the filmmaker and the AI system that helped generate the story behind the film. 

About A Hero

directed by Piotr Winiewicz

After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect. About a Hero is an adaptation of a script written by an AI trained on Herzog’s body of work. The fictional narrative it produced, ironically self-reflective, is intertwined with a series of ‘real’ interviews with artists, philosophers and scientists reflecting on the notion of originality, authenticity, immortality and soul in the age of AI.