Manuel Flurin Hendry is an award-winning feature film director, screenwriter, lecturer and academic researcher born and based in Zurich, Switzerland. He teaches cinematic arts at the ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts and at the International Film School Cologne. At ETH Zurich, he lectures on AI, algorithmic literacy and the societal impact of Large Language Models. His research projects, supported by the SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation and the DIZH Zurich Digitization Initiative, investigate the pressures of digital systems on self-perception, visual education, labor relations and artistic practice in ongoing collaborations with Residenztheater Munich, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and CILECT International Association of Film and Television Schools. As a founding member of the art/science tank Silicon Stories and the Swiss Center for Responsible AI, Manuel promotes computational literacy and critique through workshops, art interventions and the festival «After The Algorithm». His book «The Feeling Machine» will be published by De Gruyter in 2026.