Automata
2014 · Directed by Gabe Ibáñez
Original language: English
- thriller
- science fiction
The story
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
What it’s like
Automata (2014), Gabe Ibáñez's science fiction thriller, moves at the unhurried pace of a man slowly realizing the ground beneath him is cracking. Its world is a sun-bleached, dust-choked near future where the sky looks bruised and the cities seem to have been abandoned mid-sentence, and the film lingers on that desolation with a patient, almost meditative eye. Its tone sits between noir investigation and quiet elegy, with flashes of sudden, blunt violence breaking into otherwise spare, contemplative stretches. Visually it favors wide desert horizons, washed-out ochres and grays, and the mechanical intricacy of its robots, which are rendered with an unsettling tactility. The score keeps a low, watchful hum under the silences. Thematically it is preoccupied with autonomy, the ethics of creation, and what counts as a life, and its central figure traces a weary, skeptical man's gradual turn toward conscience. Best suited to viewers who enjoy brooding, atmospheric genre films where mood and moral unease carry more weight than spectacle.
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