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Robot world – a meeting with your alternate double Genre: non-verbal documentary Length: 61 min Production format: Digital Betacam (PAL), 16:9 Widescreen Director, Editor, Executive Producer: Martin Hans Schmitt Composer: Matt Howden
The non-verbal documentary Robot world depicts the evolution of robots from a mechanical somnambulist to an autonomous sensorium. The neoclassical violinist Matt Howden emphasizes the film’s message: these artificial people are our alternate doubles. Robot world is a compilation. The source material for this onehour film comes from robot laboratories at universities, from private footage at industrial fairs, military archives and corporate videos from the robot industry. Motion pictures of old 16 mm films from the 1930’s were added. This non-verbal documentary was recycled from far in excess of one hundred hours of raw material. There is no recognizable narrative structure to Robot world. This non-verbal documentary works with the open structure of a topic’s pattern. This thematic pattern can be found in the individual parts of Robot world and demonstrates that the construction of robots is in fact evolutionary. This applies to both, the exterior as well as the interior level. The exterior evolutionary line of machine beings begins with a “protozoon” in the form of nano-robots, advances to the development of arms, hands and legs as well as to insect-type swarm beings and even develops cold-blooded animals, mammals and humanoid robots. This biological development is accompanied by an imitation of typically human activities such as discovering rooms, being a playmate for children, leading wars or performing operations on a human body. These imitations are like a trace of the interior evolutionary line of robots. Matt Howden’s music wraps itself around the film; the violin, often linked to the human voice, is here the voice of the robots: their expression, their functionality, and their aspiration. Martin Hans Schmitt je zaključil študij na univerzi za film in televizijo v Münchnu. Od leta 2003 deluje kot avtor raziskovalnih in izobraževalnih filmov za münchensko univerzo Ludwig-Maximilians. Nemški avtor filmov pa snema tudi stereoskopske 3D filme in esejistične dokumentarce.
ENG Martin Hans Schmitt has completed the University of Television and Film Mu-
nich. Since 2003, he produces research and instructional films for the LudwigMaximilian University Munich. The German filmmaker also produces stereoscopic 3D films and essayistic documentaries.
Martin Hans Schmitt (DE): Robot world (Robotski svet). Video still / prizor iz videa
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