Auto*mate
Film Information:
Year:
2009
Auto*mate
País:
Director:
Color:
Color
Format:
Digibeta
Duration:
90 min
Production:
- GUIÓN: Martin Marecek
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Vít Klusák, Jirí Málek, Martin Marecek
- MONTAJE: Martin Marecek
- PRODUCCIÓN: Vratislav Slajer
Contact:
- Bionaut Films
- Vratislav Slajer
- Delnická 47
- 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic
- T +420 222 967 358
- F +420 222 967 357
- E vratislav@bionaut.cz
- bionaut@bionaut.cz
- W www.bionaut.cz
- www.automatfilm.cz
Synopsis
In an increasingly automated society, the presence of cars on the streets grows on a daily bases. Who dominates who? Auto*mate (that could be explained as automaton, but also as checkmate to a car) is an essay about the relations between humans and their machines. The speed that dominates modern life becomes physical in the streets of big cities –Buenos Aires or Prague- dominated by the absolute presence of noise, smog, cars, motorcycles and pedestrians. Combining animation, home movies, music, and an uneasy camera, it begins with a traffic accident to later develop an intimate and emotional view; this documentary goes deep into the human relationships that surround that indomitable phenomenon. But it does not merely describe a social situation; it also bets on activism to find a solution for a problem that’s affecting citizens from all over the world.