Robot Film Festival || July 14, 2012 || New York City http://robotfilmfestival.com We want you to make stories with robots! Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:34:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Festival Goals & Themes http://robotfilmfestival.com/2011/festival-goals-themes http://robotfilmfestival.com/2011/festival-goals-themes#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:12:48 +0000 retromascot http://robotfilmfestival.com/?p=240 Our goals for the festival are quite staid and moderate:
-Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration
-Harness the creativity of non-roboticists who may expose us to new insights about character, robot behavior systems and impactful physical design
-Make engineering and robotics intriguing and assessable
-Attract students to technical careers
-Enable technologists to explore the downstream effects of their innovations through storytelling
-Help explore the ethical and sociological issues everyday robots could have on society
-Make engineering fun
-Start a community that can build on itself
-Provide guidance through curation of content, framing, and followup
-Pilot an intersection between narrative and robotics, using film making, that could aid future explorations
-Provide opportunity for researchers to translate their work to the general population
-Gain practice for technologists to display their research in engaging video form
-Showcase awesome robots
-Display the breadth of work possible with robots
-Entice individuals that might not be intrigued by standard robot competitions
-Expose positive memes about robotics that answer to the Terminator myths
-Celebrate the big ideas behind it all!

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Please submit your outstanding, dazzling, hilarious or thought-provoking short film. Films should be between one to eight minutes long. JUST ONE REQUIREMENT: please feature a robot as one of the main characters as or framing devices of the narrative.

No limit on what kind of film you can submit, but these would be fun:

  • Music Videos
  • Robot Comedy Tours
  • Dramatic Storytelling
  • Anything celebrating robot & human futures
  • Jane Fonda robot exercise videos
  • Military robot love stories
  • Machines that catalyze connections between people
  • New explorations of performance
  • Research Robot Bloopers
  • Animation

In case it’s not obvious already, we quite like robots and hope you do too! Extra credit for exploring new frontiers, memes and societal contexts for your mighty mechanicals. The occasional cardboard costume is also allowed. Keep in mind, you will need to be able to attend the event with or as your robot to be eligible for the red carpet award ceremony bot-Oscars, aka, ‘botskers.’ There will be an online showcase too, however, so don’t hold back. (Submission details to come, but, electronic and juried!)

Questions? Contact hk@marilynmonrobot.com

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