Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
Acting
Swinton's quadruple performance is unhinged commitment
Production
DIY CGI that aged like digital milk—in the best way
Costume
Color-coded cyborg looks: pink, olive, marine blue
Director
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film uses actual early-2000s AI chatbot technology for Ruby's online conversations. The 'Turing tests' were real.
Lynn Hershman-Leeson pioneered feminist cyber-art; this is her narrative feature culmination of decades exploring virtual identity. The 'Agent Ruby' character originated in her 1998 web artwork.
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