By evoking the Mechanical Turk, a fake chess playing machine devised in the late 18th century, Sanborn addresses the problematic relationship between art and technology. The deliberate anachronism offers a vantage point for questioning authorship in a digital culture, where technology remains either hidden or plays an overly prominent role.
- Director
- Keith Sanborn
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- United Kingdom, France, USA
- Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Keith Sanborn
- Sales
- Keith Sanborn
- Screenplay
- Keith Sanborn
- Cinematography
- Marc Bujard, Jean Hénard, Willy Faktorovitch, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
- Editor
- Keith Sanborn
- Production Design
- Jean Perrier
- Sound Design
- Keith Sanborn
- Cast
- Charles Dullin, Camille Bert, Pierre Hot