Written and directed by Alex Garland, Ex_Machina stars Oscar Isaac as a reclusive robotics scientist working on the promise of an artificial intelligence that’s indistinguishable from a human being. In this exclusive clip he introduces his experiment to Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young and ambitious programmer.

Ex Machina, which also stars Alicia Vikander, is released in the UK on 23 January 2015 and in the US on 10 April 2015.