They were joined by Alan Greenspan who had also been a disciple of Ayn Rand. They believed that the new computer networks would allow the creation of a society where everyone could follow their own desires, yet there would not be anarchy. Many of them were also disciples of Ayn Rand. The other is the global utopia that digital entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley set out to create in the 1990s. They saw themselves as a prototype for a future society where everyone could follow their own selfish desires. One is the small group of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s. The film tells the story of two perfect worlds. They would also abolish political power and create a new kind of democracy through the internet where millions of individuals would be connected as nodes in cybernetic systems - without hierarchy. They would bring about a new kind global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. Crowd financed via Kickstarter, the project was born in 2011 with the idea to become a feature and in 2014, even before completed, it was used at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes Exhibition during the OCULUS RIFT happening: wearing the visor has made possible the frame exploration from different point of views (it should have been quite impressive).A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Several directors use short films as a training ground, other ones as a bait to be noticed by a studio and to be able to make the big leap. The cast includes Anton Yelchin ( Green Room, Burying the Ex, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation) and Rufus Sewell ( Gods of Egypt, Eleventh Hour, The Illusionist). The story has been written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton ( Saw franchise and Feast trilogy). Karlak is not new in the sci-fi scene, as he has worked as a visual effect supervisor in two feature films, The Collector and The Collection, and as a digital artist in Feast. Mankind turns out to be discouraging, anthropocentric till the extreme consequences, uncapable to enjoy diversity, even if it’s born in a silicon core against any chance. We’re settled in a limbo/purgatory where men and machines are both suffering because of deafness and blindness of few. We’re a step beyond the new-age “promise land” mood of Automata and a step before the turbolent apocalypse of Terminator. We’re talking about something Biblical, as in the Ancient Testament with a cruel and vengeful God, who’s trying to destroy his own creature once it’s become self-aware. Rise is a flawless short and, even if it’s just 5 minutes long, provides interesting narrative subtexts. Robots risk extinction but someone struggles for the suvival of its own species.ĭirector David Karlak is aware you can’t empatize with a toaster and maybe this is the reason why the machines have a human face. This unexpected event scares humanity, which reacts as a frightened child and instead of recognizing the others, chooses genocide. In a not so far future, robots develop feelings.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |