Sundance Imagines the Future Where Babies Are Grown in Pods

Debuting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival 'The Pod Generation' is a social satire about both our dependence on the synthetic and about male and female attitudes toward parenthood.

The act of biologically giving birth is a burden from which women must be—and are—liberated in, Sophie Barthes’ film about a future marked by a high-tech service that lets humans have babies in smooth, glistening app-controlled eggs known as pods.

Rachel is a thriving employee of a company that makes Alexa-like products—the latest being a small one that, like her computer shrink , boasts a single roving, blinking eye—and she embraces the mecha-frontier she’s helping to pioneer with confident enthusiasm. No matter their bedrock differences, Alvy and Rachel both want to have children. Yet despite routinely dreaming of staring into a mirror and walking along the beach while pregnant and/or cradling an infant, Rachel is far more open-minded than her spouse is about the Womb Center, a corporate facility that, for a hefty price, lets men and women conceive through artificial insemination and incubation in a shiny pod.

As it turns out, he’s not technically needed for the procedure; if the couple covets a girl, she can be created solely from Rachel’s genetic material.

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