2 minutes 40 seconds
United States
2026

Who Owns Fire? is an animated poetry film that explores the evolving equilibrium of finite resources between artificial intelligence and the fundamental needs of organic life. With the rapid advance of corporate machine learning, the film is a question of our species’ forced embrace of these new technologies and their impact on the Earth’s environmental sustainability. It is a study of the contrast between extrinsic control and the illusion of choice.

Director: Peter Whittenberger
Writer: Peter Whittenberger
Animation: Peter Whittenberger