Most films want their audiences to suspend disbelief. “About a Hero” would prefer they keep it close at hand. “Viewers are advised to exercise caution in trusting its visual and auditory components,” runs an onscreen disclaimer near the beginning of Polish filmmaker Piotr Winiewicz‘s irreverent exercise in AI-enabled storytelling — a knowingly contentious opening film for this year’s IDFA documentary festival, not least since many wouldn’t classify it as a documentary at all. Wrapping an imagined (and blithely incoherent) murder mystery around a talking-heads discussion of artificial intelligence and its implications for humanity, this seemingly hybrid exercise offers nothing to assure viewers that any one of its components is
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