Bots
2025 · 14m · Canada
Directed by Rich Williamson
A unit of dedicated bots scheme chaos and divisiveness from their office desks in Rich Williamson’s wickedly humorous and sharp satirical take on the absurd amount of power relinquished to the unhinged forces steering world politics.
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Office-comedy bot farm — the metaphor is so on-the-nose it could be a Twitter thread. TIFF will love it; I find it the kind of satire that confuses naming the problem with critiquing it.
Williamson literalizes the bot farm as banal workplace comedy — a TIFF50 pitch for a series, and you can feel that. The premise lands but the form is sketch-extended; better as proof-of-concept than discrete film.
Williamson finds the most chilling possible framing for disinformation — not as shadowy conspiracy but as tedious office work — and the banality is exactly what makes it land.