Can a gun have a soul? This is the question Brad Bird wanted to answer when he embarked on the project of the animated film The Iron Giant, based on The Iron Man:A Children's Story in Five Nights (Faber and Faber, 1968), a children's novel with a pacifist approach written by the poet Ted Hughes. Warner Bros had about forty projects going on at that time and they gave the animation director the opportunity to [...]
El Caleidoscopio presents one of its most ambitious projects today, the ROS Film Festival, an online short film festival where the attention will be focused on robots, who have a leading role in all the works submitted to the competition. Following our philosophy of merging science and culture, we concentrate on robotics and cinema, two worlds wherethe boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred, allowing us to recreate and imagine future scenarios that are often [...]
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