Animatronics Supervisor
We mostly think of robots as work machines, as efficient and precise executors of tasks. In German industry, they barely look like people, to avoid emotional complications. Unlike in Asia, where humanoid robots have already been developed for some time, for example for care-work or as sex partners. The external similarity to human beings makes the acceptance of machines easier. However, if the machine is too similar to a human, we begin to feel mistrust: what is human, what is machine? Japanese robotics researchers call this weird similarity the “uncanny valley”. For his play, Stefan Kaegi works with a writer and playwright for the first time: Thomas Melle allowed an animatronic double of himself to be made. This humanoid takes the author’s place and throws up questions: what does it mean for the original when the copy takes over? Does the original get to know himself better through his electronic double? Do the copy and his original compete or do they help each other?
Special Props
Ambientada 400 años en el futuro, una plaga ha hecho desaparecer a la mayoria de la población, excepto una ciudad protegida por muros, Bregna, gobernada por un congreso de científicos. Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) es la más importante agente de grupo rebelde 'Monican', liderado por Handler, (Frances McDormand). Cuando Aeon recibe las ordenes de aniquilar al líder del congreso descubre un mundo de secretos, que la llevan a cuestionarse de qué lado está realmente.
Makeup Department Head
Año 1723, en la antigua Rumanía. BloodRayne (Kristanna Loken) es una Dhampir, mujer medio humana medio vampiro, que trabaja como agente para la Sociedad Brimstone, sociedad secreta que persigue y destruye las amenazas sobrenaturales. Adaptación cinematográfica del videojuego del mismo nombre.
