Not so Artificially Intelligent

Jul2011

This month saw the world’s first Robot Film Festival. The event took place in Manhattan, New York, and consisted of over fifty short movies of differing genres. If you missed it, don’t worry: the organizers were kind enough to post most of the videos online. Here are a few of my favs:

Robot Film Festival Welcome, by Josh Ventura

Waiting for Name Assignment, by Alvaro Galvan, Carmen Simón Rubio (Botsker Award for Best Human as Robot)

Chorebot, by Greg Omelchuck (Botsker Award for Ethics and Impact)

The Machine, by Rob Shaw, Bent Image Lab (Botsker Award for Best Picture)

The festival also screened Spike Jonze’s 30-minute roboromance, “I’m Here“:

And an old favourite:

Keepon dancing to Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”