Emily Artmann

Фильм-размышление о создании гуманоидных роботов-андроидов. Тема раскрывается с захватывающих разнообразных точек зрения, благодаря участию в картине японского гуру робототехники Хироси Исигуро, трансгуманистки Наташи Вита-Мор и многих других. В то время как разница между людьми и андроидами постепенно стирается, конфликт между технологиями и социальной ответственностью растет настолько же, насколько расширяются утопические видения. Из этой мозаики возникает напряженная амбивалентность, которая, с одной стороны, ставит под сомнение футуристические процессы, а с другой — восхваляет тех, кто осмеливается создавать эти новые машины, которые пытаются отразить нашу человечность.

Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee routes to Italy after the Balkan route is closed. The residents fear the fence just as much as the supposedly threatening influx of foreigners to their homeland. Two years later, the fence is still rolled up in a container, as the inrush of refugees never occurred.

Phillip Hochmair is a young, successful actor with engagements at big theatres in Vienna and Hamburg. His life is marked by learning new texts by heart, rehearsals, and performances, thus gradually losing contact with the reality of everyday life. Only when he meets his uncle Walter, whom he didn't know about before and establishes an ambiguous friendship with, and also faces his neighbour Victor’s destiny, he discovers with full force how cruel the daily battle for survival can be.

Twins look alike. Sometimes they even think alike. But they're two rather than one. I Am Me is in part about the fact that an individual is more than the sum of his or her characteristics. The fact that a person is neither what other people say about them nor their own description of themselves. And photographs and moving images are nothing more than representations.

An unlikely tourist group on a seaside vacation. A holiday spot in the low season as a backdrop for the stories, the protagonists’ inner journeys: once a year the Graz Advisory Centre for Mental and Social Concerns travels for one week to Kanegra, a resort in the north of Croatia. An unusual view on a holiday setting, on strangeness and on being a stranger.