2 HN users recommended this video2 months2025–2026score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN brings it up in threads about captchas, bots and AI agents as an excellent short film about being a robot.
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.
“there is an excellent short movie online called "I'm not a Robot".” (HN, 2026)
Oh my, a Dutch film that actually sounds good?! I get to watch a movie that's originally in my native language for perhaps the second time in my life, thanks for linking this :D Edit: and it's on YouTube in full! Was wondering which streaming service I'd have to buy for this niche genre of Dutch sci-fi but that makes life easy: [this video] Final update: well, that was certainly special. Favorite moment was 10:26–10:36 ^^. Don't think that comes fully across in the baked-in subtitles in English though. Overall it could have been an episode of Dark Mirror, just shorter. Thanks again for the tip :)
Next, I'm sure, you'll be telling me you're not a bot, Mr Marshall? [this video] Previously (6 months ago but didn't trend, perhaps due for a repost?): [link]
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