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A portrait of consumerism from the view point of the product. A musically driven meditation on the monotony of grocery shopping.
Music by Marc Fischer.
Screening Highlights
• Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
• 2004 Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival Invitational
• Paço das Artes, São Paulo Brazil
• Exploding Cinema, London
• Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainsville
Notes
Novice Robots is a collection of short movies concerning household appliances and machines that are often overlooked in our day-to-day lives. This project began as a photography exercise but has grown into a study of industrial design and a lesson in capturing color, texture, and mechanics of industrial objects. Mixing specialized soundscapes and creatively photographed machine aesthetics, these movies bring objects alive in both an artistic and humanization form.