《Meridian》跟踪最后一个单位在一个自动机队被派来提供紧急疫苗。通过一个机器人的不可知论者的眼睛,这部电影观察了人类戏剧是如何刻在无生命体上的,寻找自动化与炼狱、抑郁和故障之间可能的相似之处。 这部电影的灵感来自于2017年7月17日发生在华盛顿特区的一个真实事件,在该事件中,一个来自KnightScope公司的自动安全机器人被发现漂浮在它巡逻的大楼的喷泉中。在例行的巡逻中,它已经潜入水中,这引发了人们对这台机器是选择结束它的生命,还是这仅仅是一项可靠的新技术中的一个小故障的猜测。也许比机器的命运更有趣的是,它渴望在人类的环境中看到它的死亡。 Meridian follows the last unit in a fleet of autonomous machines sent to deliver an emergency vaccine. Through a robot’s agnostic eye, the film looks at how human dramas are inscribed onto the inanimate, searching for possible parallels between automation and purgatory, depression and malfunction. The film is inspired by a real event that occurred in Washington, D.C. on 17 July 2017, where an automated security robot from the company Knightscope was found floating in a fountain at the building it patrolled. It had plunged into the water while on a routine patrol, spurring speculation about whether the machine had chosen to end its life or if this was just a glitch in an otherwise reliable new technology. Perhaps more interesting than the fate of the machine was the desire to see its death within a human context.Meridian的获奖情况: