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Teknolust
Sign in to saveTeknolust is a 2002 American film written, produced, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of California, Davis. The film stars Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies.
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4.4Anxious 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.
Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
- Jeremy Davies as Sandy
- James Urbaniak as Agent Hopper
- Karen Black as Dirty Dick
- Al Nazemian as Dr. Bea
- S.U. Violet as Dr. Aye
Themes
- woman director
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Ratings
IMDb
5.3/10
1,957 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
30%
Metacritic
43/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Creator
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Screenwriter
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Composer
- Klaus Badelt
- Producer
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Cinematographer
- Hiro Narita
- Duration
- 79
- FilmAffinity ID
- 665276
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- title
- Teknolust
- distributed by
- ThinkFilm
- film editor
- Lisa Fruchtman
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 43/100
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 16:9
- publication date
- 2005-02-24
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Encyclopedic overview
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Teknolust is a 2002 American film written, produced, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of California, Davis. The film stars Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies.
Lynn Hershman Leeson's art project "Agent Ruby" was an expansion inspired by this film. "Agent Ruby" used artificial intelligence to hold conversations with online users. These conversations shaped Agent Ruby's memory, knowledge, and moods.
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