Father Of The Cyborgs (12A)

In the 1990s, trailblazing Irish neuroscientist Dr Phil Kennedy sparked a feverish debate in the scientific community about the relationship between technology and human brain when he implanted wire electrodes in the brain of a paralysed man to further research into facilitating speech for locked-in patients. He was dubbed "Father of the Cyborgs". This documentary portrait of this divisive figure in the field of neuroscience goes behind the headlines to consider ethics and mental privacy.