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

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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.

HN brings it up in threads about captchas, bots and AI agents as an excellent short film about being a robot.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@Aachen2025 · in “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies”

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: [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 :)

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@aspenmayer2025 · in “The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess”

Next, I'm sure, you'll be telling me you're not a bot, Mr Marshall? [VIDEO] Previously (6 months ago but didn't trend, perhaps due for a repost?): [LINK]

@falcor842025 · in “OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification”

As per the Oscar winning "I'm not a Robot" [0], you should also consider that you might in fact be a robot. [0] [VIDEO]

@tanseydavid2025 · in “OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification”

Seems like a mention of the 2025 Academy Award winner for Best Action Live-Action Short, called "I am not a Robot" is in order here: [VIDEO]

@jjbinx0072026 · in “Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human”

If anyone hasn't seen it yet there is an excellent short movie online called "I'm not a Robot". [VIDEO] Well worth a watch.

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