Teknolust

Teknolust is a 2002 film produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of California, Davis. It stars Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies.

Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a biogeneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons SRA, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine. The SRAs act as portals on the Internet, helping users to fulfill their dreams. The SRAs are nourished through touch. Because they were bred only with Rosettas DNA, they need the balance of an Y chromo or male sperm to survive. Ruby goes out to meet men in order to obtain their sperm to keep her and her sisters alive. Rosetta projects seduction scenes from movie clips onto Ruby, which absorbs as she sleeps. Ruby acts out these scenes in real life with the men, as she attempts to acquire their sperm. She shares her spoils with her sisters afterwards. Rubys male encounters suffer from impotence and unexplained rashes after they meet which creates panic. Fearing a biogender war, the FBI sends in Agent Edward Hopper to solve the mystery. Puzzled, he turns for help from a private cyber detective. The men eventually recover, as their sickness is someone linked to a computer virus obtained from Ruby. Ruby falls develops feeling for a print shop worker named Sandy. The characters struggle to find love in a world that no longer needs sex to reproduce, a world that is changing and is populated with people who use provisional identities and are seen through virtual selves and a world where love is the only thing that makes things real.Hamptons International Film Festival 2002 Won Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology Lynn HershmanLeeson ........

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