A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Moe Bar-El, Maia Watkins
Written by:
Tim Maughan
Directed by:
Liam Young
Release Date:
October 8, 2016
Original Title:
In the Robot Skies
Genres:
Science Fiction
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 4
Above a council estate tower block in London a network of surveillance drones monitor the residents below. Through the eyes of the drones two teenagers are kept apart, each held by police order within the digital confines of their own tower. In this near future city drones form agents of state surveillance but also become co-opted as the aerial vehicles through which two teens fall in love.
In the Robot Skies is the world's first narrative shot entirely through autonomous drones. In collaboration with the Embedded and Artificially intelligent Vision Lab in Belgium the film has evolved in relation to their experiments...
Director:
Liam Young
Writer:
Tim Maughan
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