SCREENINGS THURSDAY 16 NOVEMBERAT

LOVE, SEX AND ROBOTS, WITH THE PRESENTATION OF LIDIA NA

VIVA LA PEPA – PL. MÚSICO ÓSCAR TORDERA, ALICANTE

Skinjacker

Dan Horrigan, UNITED KINGDOM
(6:11)

After the evacuation it’s possible to go months without seeing another human being. So we turned to Pleasure Core ltd to keep us human – and being human has some dark surprises.

Doll

Paula Estrada, ECUADOR
(13:00)

“Make Your Doll” Corporation designs Dolls in order to be sold for male pleasure. Ana, one of them, decides to escape the fabric when she hears that Lourdes, the manager, wants to shut her down, because she is a defective product.

Nina and the robots

Cindy Coutant, FRANCE
(18:49)

The breath of the machine fills the air, where the singing can flow. Nina stands in front of the wiggling robot. The soft bodies measure up themselves, sometimes harmonize. The breaths dilate the organs, which swell and fold; transmute the synthetic movement into vital impetus and the vulva into mouth, which inflates until it spreads.

Disconnected

Feride Unal, TURKEY
(2:11)

Disconnected is student work which is a 3D animation that aims to show how technology, makes people more lonely, isolated and disconnects them from the real world as well as creates a fake sense of reality and delusion. It also sheds light on the concerning issue of oversexualization of women through modern technologies.

Take you there

Kesari Bhattacharya, AUSTRALIA
(5:03)

With the Advent of technology Human conversation has been replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Couples can now access each other’s thoughts with a pair of couplinks. With the conversation gone, so does the intimacy and the need to copulate, dwindling the human population and giving rise to the race to control the last couplinks.

Astronauts

Mark Benjamin, BRAZIL
(6:51)

Is solitude between a human and a machine possible? A couple meets in an unexpected way on a dating app. They live their love through a game of impossibilities.