We Are All Cylons Release
New Film in Development: Alignment Project
After a successful, award-winning festival run, as well as screenings at reRun in
NYC, Spool MFG, and numerous conventions, We Are All Cylons will be
released on DVD, limited edition Blu-ray, and via streaming by Rex Mundi in
June 2012.
We Are All Cylons is classified as a documentary, but its premise is that the
filmmaker (Ilana Rein) is part of a larger plan: spreading a message from a TV
series that reveals our human origins are partly AI. In this way, a "fictional"
layer is embedded within a traditional documentary.
Alignment Project takes up where We Are All Cylons left off. It elaborates on the
tension between humans and machines and re-affirms the slippage of identity
that occurs when reality and fictions collide.
In Alignment Project, Monitors are humans who have been technologically
augmented and subjected to decades of psychological violence as a result of
this fusion. In both films, it is through examining our relationship to technology
and AI that facets of our humanity become clear.
Cylons learn to love as part of their programming. Monitors love despite their
programming. This is the tense--and at times quite dark--mental landscape Rein
explores in Alignment Project, which is set in the remote desert of the American
Southwest and a bleak, tech-driven London.
Rein states, “I have serious concerns about humanity as it is transformed by
technology. I also now truly understand how people see things here in the
desert that can't be explained away by scientific ‘rational’ thought. These two
threads are connected by what I see as our deep desire to believe in something
greater than ourselves--to self-transcend.”
Rein continues, “When I meet people who consider themselves Cylon I’m
incredibly moved by their desire to expand their identity. I see hope in these
radical identifications with archetypal characters who are not quite human
because they will be part of our future.”
"WE are all Cylons" will be available for the first time to buy athttp://www.comicpalooza.com/in both DVD & Blu Ray. Stop by the Battlestar Galactica Fan Club table for YOUR copy & join in the Cylon raffle while you are there, you'll have a chance to win Alicia Hollinger's "Sixiest Issue Ever" print of "Cylonboy"
So Say We All!
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