The late ‘90s were a weird time. Home computing became increasingly common and the internet hatched into existence, still gooey and ill-mannered. As we turned the millennial page, technology promised ...

A Glitch In the Matrix likely won’t convince you that you’re living in a simulation. But this strange new documentary—which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last weekend and is now available in ...

Rodney Ascher's Sundance Midnight title uses cultural touchstones like "The Matrix" to answer the question: Is any of this real? Magnolia Pictures has released the official trailer for the Sundance ...

Building his latest documentary around impossibly big questions, a cheeky ‘90s cyber aesthetic and the words of visionary author Philip K. Dick, director Rodney Ascher explores the labyrinthine ...

The Matrix fever hit a high point in the mid-aughts, which resulted in sequels and an anthology film named The Animatrix.

If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...

Elon Musk recently stated that he believes that humanity might be living inside a simulation, similar to the Keanu Reeves movie, The Matrix. The tech billionaire appeared on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast to ...

I remember the first time I saw Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a truly unsettling series of interconnected theories about all the meanings hidden in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. All of the disparate, ...

Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He is talking about the many coincidences of his life and how they led him to believe that he’s living in a computer ...

WILMINGTON – Are we actually living in a computer simulation feeding us our sensory information? That was the question asked by two University of North Carolina at Wilmington professors at Cucalorus ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Here’s how stressed out people are feeling these days: They don’t even believe that reality is reality anymore. Or they don’t want reality to be reality anymore. I blame ...