Teknolust
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Diane Lane
John Pirruccello
Tilda Swinton
Diana De Mar
John O'keefe
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Anxious to use artificial intelligence to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three beings (Self Replicating Automatons - S.R.A.'s) that are part human, part software, whom she names Ruby, Marine and Olive. They look human, but are in fact intelligent machines. The only flaw in Rosetta's creation is that the S.R.A.'s need injections of male chromo found only in spermatozoa to survive. As they cannot distinguish dreams from reality, Rosetta programs Ruby, via movie tapes, to seduce men in the real world and share donations with her sisters. Ruby's evolving contact with the real world introduces her to art, spirituality, and ultimately, when she meets Sandy, a lonely Xerox shop worker, the capacity to fall in love. All of the characters struggle to find meaning in a world where love is the only thing that makes things real. In the process they also find harmony between the real and the virtual world.
Director
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Cast
Diane Lane
John Pirruccello
Tilda Swinton
Diana De Mar
John O'keefe
Heather Myers
S U Violet
Howard Swain
Andrea Zomber
Tiffany Waxter
Karen Black
Al Nazemian
Thomas Jay Ryan
Jeanne Mcculloch
Jeremy Davies
Carina Anderson
Paula West
Benton Greene
Brad King
James Urbaniak
Paul Barnett
Dick Bright
Abigail Van Alyn
Josh Kornbluth
Crew
Marianna Astrom-defina
Paul Barnett
Ynze Bijl
Kris Boxell
Debbie Brubaker
Peter Buchanan
Eric Comstock
Eric Comstock
Tonya Crooks
Chris Farmer
Lisa Fruchtman
Mark Garrett
Bob Gitzen
David Goodno
Oscar Gubernati
Alexandra Guerineaud
Christopher James Hall
Nancy Hayes
Jonathan Heuer
Jamen Howe
John Bradford King
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Marine Macerot
Clark Mccutchen
Alex Mizuno
Charles Moulton
Hiro Narita
John Nazemian
Richie Nieto
Stacey Robinson
Deirdre Scully
Amy Sommer
Melanie Tomlin
Mark Tschanz
Mark Tschanz
Mark Tschanz
Youssef Vahabzadeh
Paula West
Yohji Yamamoto
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States January 2002
Released in United States on Video December 16, 2003
Released in United States Winter February 20, 2004
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition/ American Showcase) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.
Released in United States January 2002 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition/ American Showcase) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.)
Released in United States Winter February 20, 2004 (NY)
Released in United States on Video December 16, 2003
