Film

Mechanical Love

Amore meccanico

Starting from the idea of documenting the development of human emotions in interpersonal relationships, Ambo shifted her attention to the relationship between humans and robots. After seeing how therapeutic robots work, she was struck by the range of emotions they can arouse in patients. The stories told in the film show that within the human subconscious the barrier is crumbling between man and machine, between an organism capable of feelings and a mechanism: old Frau Körner fond of her mechanical seal; a Japanese professor who built an android in his like and tested it on his daughter to evaluate her reaction.

Il regista / The Director

Phie Ambo (b. Denmark, 1973) earned a degree in Documentary Film Directing from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999. Her directorial debut film was the documentary Family (2001), co-directed with Sami Saif, with whom she won the Joris Ivens Award at the IDFA, Amsterdam. Other films she has directed include Growing Up in a Day (2002), Gambler (2006) and Mechanical Love (2007).

Edizione 2009
Panorama - Focus Bioetica/Panorama - Focus on Bioethics

documentario
Danimarca/Denmark, 2007, 80'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Phie Ambo

TAGS:
SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY / ETICA - ETHICS / ROBOT