Love Me

Love Me

Sloan Foundation Film

Release Date

2024

Director

  • Sam Zuchero
  • Andy Zuchero

Cast

  • Kristen Stewart
  • Steven Yeun

Awards

  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2024

Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love.

This wildly imaginative debut feature tells the love story of a smart buoy and an orbiting satellite that spans a billion years and probes the mysteries of being and consciousness using legit storytelling dexterity. Love Me's whimsically philosophical, shape-shifting structure ingeniously weaves together the real, the virtual, and the surreal. Its star-crossed, web-paired metallic protagonists — inhabited in different forms by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun — awkwardly navigate romance and companionship, equipped only with untold petabytes of archived web data, social media, and online videos. Awash in these mediated experiences and fabricated expressions of love and identity, they yearn to understand who they are, whether their feelings are real, and for that matter, whether they are real. — Sundance Film Festival

Possible Topics

  • Can AI recreate love?
  • How human is AI?
  • What constitutes human identity?