Manuel Flurin Hendry is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, academic researcher and university lecturer born and based in Zurich, Switzerland.
His movie work reaches across genres and formats, from political drama to family entertainment. As a researcher, he investigates the impact of artificial «intelligence» on self-perception, visual education and artistic practice in ongoing collaborations with ETH Zurich, HKAPA Hongkong and the international association of film and media schools CILECT, funded by the Swiss National Foundation SNF and the Zurich Digitization Initiative DIZH.
Hendry teaches Critical Computation at ETH Zurich and screen acting & directing at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the International Film School Cologne (IFS). With his art & science group «Silicon Stories», he hosts workshops, lectures and festivals on computation and society. He is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and represented by the talent agency Betti Berlin.
Festival Head. A 10-day festival exploring computation. Funds raised: €200k. Produced by Silicon Stories.
Creative Programming for the Stage. Hosted by Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin.
Screen Acting in the Digital Age. Zurich University of the Arts.
Zurich University of the Arts. Co-Organizer: Dr. Gunter Loesel.
University of Zurich. Co-Organizer: Dr. Hiloko Kato. Funded by DSI.
Examining the impacts of professional screenwriters' use of LLMs on creative practice, authenticity, and artistic identity.
AI-assisted interactive multimedia database of craft knowledge in professional filmmaking. Funding: DIZH.
Conference publications and AI-generated art piece with Google DeepMind. Funding: Ernst Göhner Foundation, Mobiliar.
Studies in Adversarial AI interactions. Funded by BIAL Foundation.
A Think-and-Do-Tank for responsible AI development.
Leveraging AI for creativity-driven innovation in Europe.
Zurich Film Foundation.
Based on "Verschlüsselt" by Res Strehle. Funded by Swiss Federal Office for Culture.