#ROSFilmFestival - First Robotic Online Short Film Festival
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Rise of the Robots is a short story about a group of robots. They are left in a dystopian environment, while they are in the middle of very typically human activities. Maybe the world is suffering under the effects of climate change, or there could have been a whole other reason. We might even be witnessing nothing more than a robot’s dream.
The story is narrated by Ron, a small robot that is left on the beach. He is talking to an imaginary human friend that lives in his mind. He explains to us, in this way, that robots have a very strong desire to learn all kinds of common things from the humans. If robots are shaped like us, and are supposed to live like us, it is only natural that they want to embrace our culture too. People fear the rise of the robots, for many different reasons.
Herb shows us various graffiti projects in an abandoned building. Graffiti is the ultimate form of protest art. It is also a very oppressed form. Maybe this is a prelude to the struggle that robots will face when they will have the desire to rise to higher levels of individuality.
By Jan de Coster
Date of production: 2016
Country: Belgium
