Robot with a movie camera

Robot with a Movie Camera is an excerpt from a diary.

 On my way to work, I kept walking past a robot. One day I stopped and took a closer look at the Robot’s arm. It seemed that the robot could hold a movie camera. A few days later John McCormack, a technology-based artist and researcher with a major interest in human movement, and myself, a filmmaker exploring smartphones and emerging media for experimental screen production, met in the Factory of the Future and conducted an experiment in cinematic communication. Adam Nash’s soundscape Child in the Wild provided a conceptual bridge to transition between the world of Robots and the film space. Being inspired by Dziga Vertov and the work of the Kino-Eye, we explored the robot as a camera operator in the film as well as the Virtual Reality environment. 

The purpose of this experimental work is to continue the exploration of the Kino-Eye’s cinematographic language. Vertov’s manifesto explored the sensory domain of the world through film. “We therefore take as the point of departure the use of the camera as a kino-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space. The kino-eye lives and moves in time and space; it gathers and records impressions in a manner wholly different from that of the human eye. … I am kino-eye, I am mechanical eye. 

I, a machine show you the world as only I can see it.” Future experiments will continue to explore the filming and editing in VR worlds by kino-eyes.