A 10-minute film about befriending your robot coworker? Capitalism finally made a buddy comedy.
Robin, a bored retail employee, is tasked with training the stores new employee, a worker robot. Reluctant to work alongside this new machine at first, Robin forms an unlikely bond with it, leading her to make some life changing decisions.
Acting
Taylor Russell sells dead-eyed retail exhaustion perfectly.
Writing
Sharp satire that stings more than it should.
Director
Jem Garrard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the 2016 automation anxiety wave, this short predicted the 'robot coworker' discourse years before ChatGPT panic.
Director Jem Garrard later directed episodes of Motherland: Fort Salem—proving she enjoys women making chaotic decisions.
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