“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN brings it up in threads about captchas, bots and AI agents as an excellent short film about being a robot.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2025 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec jjbinx007 · 2026-08 · on “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". [this video] Well worth a watch.
Recommends Aachen · 2025-03 · on “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: [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 :)
Cites falcor84 · 2025-07 · on “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] [this video]
Cites tanseydavid · 2025-07 · on “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: [this video]