Fragile Machine Explained
| Fragile Machine |
| Director: | Ben Steele |
| Starring: | Molly Pinckney
Xi |
| Music: | John Banks
John Hockersmith
Ben Steele
Jay Steinberg |
| Runtime: | 34 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Japanese
English |
Fragile Machine[1] is an indie cyberpunk[2] short film created by a team of artists called Aoineko.[3]
Plot
Leda Nea is a scientist working for the Göln Remedios laboratory. Following the death of her daughter, Leda volunteers as a test subject in a series of experiments designed to mesh human and machine.
Reception
Fragile Machine was premiered at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in 2005[4] [5]
Fragile Machine was well received at various film festivals, winning accolades such as:
"Best Animated File Award (2005): The Sedona International Film Festival[6] [7]
"Special Tribute for Animation (2005): Imaginaria[8]
"Honorable Mention for Work in Progress (2005): DIY Film Festival[9]
Reviews of Fragile Machine were generally positive. Brett D. Rogers of fps Magazine called the film "a well-styled piece of visual and audio cyberpunk, setting lessons learned from Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Metropolis to a beat."[10]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Fragile Machine (2005) . Imdb.com . 2005-09-03 . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: July 2, 2006 . Fragile Machine . Cyberpunk Review . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Aoineko Official Website . Aoineko.com . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema . Wfac.ca . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema 2005 Event . Anime News Network . 2005-10-20 . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Sedona Film Festival . Sedona Film Festival . 2009-03-01 . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Absolute Anime • Reviews • Movie Review: Fragile Machine . Absoluteanime.com . 2009-04-07 . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: imaginaria International film festival . Imaginariafilmfestival.org . 2009-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060507173937/http://www.imaginariafilmfestival.org/2005/ita/programma.html . 2006-05-07 . dead .
- Web site: Film, Music & Books . DIYConvention.com . 2009-06-14.
- Web site: Rogers. Brett D.. Review of Fragile Machine. fps Magazine. fps Magazine. 25 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20090104211849/http://www.fpsmagazine.com/review/050813fragile.php. 4 January 2009. dead.
