Mindgamers Promises To Bend Audience Brains

One of the most popular ideas in cinema has been captured in films like Chappie, Transendence, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and several other titles. The topic of artificial intelligence has long been pondered by filmmakers as the possibilities become more and more probable in reality.

However, the idea of mind control and connecting through computers is something which is dealt with more rarely, despite appearing to be a closer step for humans.

Hitting theaters in less than two weeks, the upcoming Andrew Goth-directed Mindgamers film promises to explore such a topic quite bravely. With The Walking Dead's Tom Payne leading the way, Mindgamers sets out to explore what one might experience given the ability to connect with minds of icons such Lebron James, Beyone, world leaders, or any human on planet Earth.

On March 28 in Los Angeles and New York City, the team behind the film will offer movie goers a very similar experience. The neuroscience team, Qusp, and its chief neurologist, Tim Mullen, will be conducting a neural experiment at the March 28 screening of Mindgamers, putting the cognitive experience of the collective audience on display for everyone to see how their reactions to a film are shared with those around them.

Mindgamers will follow a set of students at a quantum academy attempting to create a collective consciousness, only to discover they are part of a grander experiment. While the film will take the cinematic liberties of exaggerating science into fiction, its concept is based in reality, having worked closely with several scientists to truly grasp the neurological concepts. However, there will nothing fictional about the event taking place at the end of the month!

While this live event takes place, 1,000 people from the movie theater audience will participate in the experiment by wearing a cognition headband. These headbands will enable scientists to capture the cognition state of the participants simultaneously via cloud technology and collect data in real time. The result will be a world-first image of a mass-mind state (the likes and scale of which has never been attempted), which could drive our research into the nature of human cognition for years to come.

"We wanted to delve into a world which is going to happen," Mindgamers director Andrew Goth said. "These sort of connective aspects started growing so we decided to keep that theme and the connectivity of what it would be like if we, as humans, start to connect more with the Web, with the Cloud. What does that mean for us? Where does that mean we're going to go next? Where does the ego end."

"All of the young actors were very much a part of this world and they use the technolog," Goth said. "They know the technology is moving exponentially."

The event will open with introductory talks from Tim Mullen and Mikey Siegel, both leaders in the fields of technology, neuroscience and the collective consciousness. A screening of MindGamers will follow. The event will conclude with a live Q&A and revealing of the first image of a mass-connected mind.

"This is truly a new experience for cinema audiences," Fathom Events CEO John Rubey said. "To present live data from a collective conscious of moviegoers will be a fascinating and incredible feat, and we are thrilled to help bring this content to the big screen!"

For more information about Mindgamers' neurological experiment experience in New York City and Los Angeles, head to mindgamersmovie.com/#/join.

Mindgamers hits theaters March 28.