Alex Garland writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) a programmer at an internet-search giant wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company s brilliant and reclusive CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities and ultimately the consciousness of Nathan s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander) a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated-and more deceptive-than the two men could have imagined.