There has been a horrible silence since the last post. And I was wondering if it was time to break it. Not many news to talk about anyway. Limbo keeps going slowly, Back-up in the need of some action (specifically actors!), Dead End unknown status, and Mummy still going to festivals... (and waiting for responses). Only as a new thing is Doors and its publication in the 'Digilab' the digital video website of London Metropolitan University. If you want to have a look to the new short just click here ; the plot does not make sense, it is in a surreal tradition and I wouldn't like to tell how to read it. Soon as well will be posted Padre Piquer and the Sorcerers Stone, which was one of my early video works at the age of 18, which I keep with a lot of affection.

I watched yesterday Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987) for the first time in my life, in my aim to broaden my vision about robotics (to find hipertextuality* to introduce on Back-up). I enjoyed a lot with the film; it is an interesting vision about human identity, and its conflict with technology, as science was in the 19th Century (just remember Frankenstein). Curiously, I found some paralels between this story and Limbo instead of doing it with Back-up (the cyborg story I am working with now), and I was thinkin on using similar shots as those omniscent ones when Agent Murphy is transformed into a cyborg. However, I would never use such a shabby end with sentences such as "You are fired... thanks... bang!!" although the truth is that the last word on the dialogue (his name, "murphy") makes a good conclusion to that idea of identity I earlier was talking about (badly ellaborated on the film anyway, as it is difused whether is more important to show Special Effects, blood, darkness, action or revenge to conclude with the idea of identity). Apart from this is worth highlighting all the adverts and television satire included on the film which makes it a very curious film.

I am also inmersed into robotics with Asimov... he is a good philosopher, mathematical and writer... but his ideas are too far from where I am focusing back-up from. I am reading a compilation of 36 short stories about robots... and the only thing I see constantly is his insistent variation of a mathematical, and philosophical (or political, better said perhaps) rules; starting with his famous Three Laws of Robotics. There is nothing as interesting as identity in a technological world, and the stories always go around human fates in a robotized world (not cyborgzised) which also puts away that idea I saw on Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) of combining two different worlds into one; human and machine, to end up making a beautiful symbiosis (in extent woman and man, zeros and ones, and so on, very important to highlight on Back-up). Needless to say is that I am enjoying with this Robot stories a lot, which are situating me in a fantastic Universe in about to rocket.

By the way, I have in my hands the last Harry Potter in my hands (which I am not interested to adapt to cinema, and even less direct) which reminds me to that horrible thing I watched on the cinema called Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix... I even enjoyed much much more watching the remake of Hairspray which shows a stunning Michelle Pfeiffer and an astonishing John Travolta. Just before I finish this post, I would like to send regards to my anonymous lover for his staunch tracking of this blog!

I'll be back... (yeah, another one I have to watch)