OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS!
Tin cans with unknown contents, always surprising what flavour you'll get.
A fine collection of 'bot, droids and robot friends!
SHORTS PROGRAMME 2
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SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 - FRI 20 MAY, 5.00PM
PRECURSOR
(Dir: Marco Castiglione, 2021, Italy, Italian, 20mins) Gea is seeking her father but must keep away from the robot hunt.
SAINT ANDROID
(Dir: Lukas von Berg, 2021, Germany, English, 6mins) It’s the future, Norman’s wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance - but it’s not exactly what he hoped for.
MENTAL LOAD
(Dir: Benjamin MALHERBE, 2022, France, French, 5mins) An old inventor makes a new companion, a friend for life… Or maybe just a slave…
AFRO ALGORITHMS
(Dir: Anatola Araba, 2022, United States, English, 14mins) In a distant future, Aero becomes the world’s first AI leader. However, she soon finds that important worldviews are missing from her databank.
RED GAIA
(Dir: Udesh Chetty, 2022, United States, English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tibetan, 13mins) Alone on the dying red planet, among the ruins of human civilization, one last android desperately guards the last essence of life.
TEACHER
(Dir: Xiaoting Zhong, 2021, China, Yue Chinese (Cantonese), 18mins) A human survivor and a military robot meet in the ruins after the destruction of civilisation.
FIELDTRIP
(Dir: Soren Bendt, Paul Arion, 2022, United Kingdom, English, 21mins) A man in a robotic spacesuit, crashes into his own minefield and has to navigate through it.
