I am (not) a Monster Credits
Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Produced by: Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. & I am (not) a Monster Ltd.
Executive Producers:Nelly Ben Hayoun at Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, Christopher Hird at Dartmouth Films
Director of Photography: Fiona Braillon
Visual Effects: Bob Weisz
Production Managers: Monika Baran,Chloe McClellan
Production Manager (Japan) Marie Otsuka
Soundtracks: RVNG Intl. and Pussy Riot
R&D phase co-produced by Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd., UK
I am (not) a Monster Ltd. , UK
Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Dartmouth Films, UK
Project partners
The SETI Institute
Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College
London Premiere presented by BFI Southbank in collaboration with 4:3 Boiler Room
Interviewees for I am (not) a monster include:
Noam Chomsky - Philosopher and Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona. Nadezhda Andreyevna
Tolokonnikova - Activist, Pussy Riot
Magid Magid - Lord Mayor of Sheffield
Arjun Appadurai - Hannah Arendt’s Student and Professor of Anthropology Efrem Amare - Director of The National Museum of Ethiopia
Neil Harbisson - Cyborg Artist
Tosa Novmichi - Maywa Denki, Nonsense Artist
Hisa Uzawa - Noh Theatre Lead Performer, Japan’s Living, National Treasure
Richard Bernstein - Hannah Arendt’s Student and Professor, The New School
Roger Berkowitz - Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College Hiroshi Ishiguro - Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Leon Botstein - Hannah Arendt’s Student and President of Bard College
Shishido Hiroyuki - Shinto Priest and Rapper
Brewster Kahle - Director of the Internet Archive
Metasebia Endalamaw - Curator of The National Museum of Ethiopia
Kanjuro Kiritake II - Bunraku Puppetry Master, Japan’s Living National Treasure
Adrienn Almásy - Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum Allan McRobie - Professor in Engineering, Cambridge University
Samantha Hill - Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Erica - Humanoid
Hiroshi Ishiguro - Humanoid
Sarah Steele - VR Program Manager at Google
Zachary Lieberman - Founder of the School for Poetic Computation Takako Furukawa - Hypnotherapist
And many more...