Thanks to Martine Verhoeven's unprejudiced vision, the film RoboCop (1987) became the icon of science fiction of the eighties and still survives as such. Without her vision, the film might have never been shot. Jon Davison, producer of the project, had contacted all talented directors he knew, but without exception they rejected the offer because they did not want such an apparently simple science fiction story to tarnish their film careers. Its title was, above [...]
The Enlightenment was an exciting time in which the unprejudiced progress of science and thought allowed new wonders to cause great sensation in society. One of them was the manufacture of automata, thanks to the perseverance, creativity and technical and physiological knowledge of its creators, mimicked living beings. Such is the case of the flute player created by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), a lifesize shepherd presented to the French Academy [...]
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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