The AI revolution has a new opposition, and it isn’t… whatever you’re thinking about right now. It consists of three indignant Indian uncles with an unconventional approach to reclaiming human jobs from machines.

Meet the revolutionaries of We Were Here, a delightfully absurd comedy short written and directed by Pranav Bhasin and produced by Yash Gonsai. It follows three retired men who take on the identities of everyday gadgets—a dish antenna, a car’s reverse camera and a microwave—in an increasingly elaborate attempt to make themselves useful in a world that no longer seems to need them. It’s less Silicon Valley disruption and more neighbourhood uncle uprising.

And now, this little film has found itself a rather enormous stage.

We Were Here has landed today on The New Yorker as part of its Screening Room, marking its global release after an extensive international festival run.

The film has screened at over 80 festivals and collected more than 20 awards, including the Audience Award for Best Narrative Short at SXSW, the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand, and both the Best Comedy Short and Best Live-Action Short (15 Minutes and Under) awards at Palm Springs ShortFest. The former Palm Springs ShortFest win also made it eligible for Academy Award consideration.

It has also attracted some very interesting company. Actor Andrew Scott, who first came on board as executive producer following the film’s SXSW success, is now joined by actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tony Award-winning playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) as executive producers.

Beneath the film’s wonderfully ridiculous premise, this comic mockumentary is a question that feels increasingly difficult to ignore: what happens when the things we’ve built to make our lives easier begin making human beings redundant? Bhasin tackles the subject without getting bogged down in dystopian doom and gloom, instead giving us a story about people who refuse to accept that their time is up.

The film’s Indian premiere took place last week, with DeadAnt Live as its media partner, marking its homecoming after a journey across the international festival circuit—because really home is where the dish antenna is.

The revolution, it turns out, is now streaming. And the uncles would like a word with your microwave.