Teknolust(2004)- Production Details

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Synopsis

Anxious to use artificial intelligence to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three beings (Self Replicating Automatons - S.R.A.'s) that are part human, part software, whom she names Ruby, Marine and Olive. They look human, but are in fact intelligent machines. The only flaw in Rosetta's creation is that the S.R.A.'s need injections of male chromo found only in spermatozoa to survive. As they cannot distinguish dreams from reality, Rosetta programs Ruby, via movie tapes, to seduce men in the real world and share donations with her sisters. Ruby's evolving contact with the real world introduces her to art, spirituality, and ultimately, when she meets Sandy, a lonely Xerox shop worker, the capacity to fall in love. All of the characters struggle to find meaning in a world where love is the only thing that makes things real. In the process they also find harmony between the real and the virtual world.

Production Details

In Theaters

  • February 20, 2004

MPAA Rating

R (for sexual content)

Genres

Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Run Time

1 hour 24 minutes

Distributors

ThinkFilm

Box Office

$28,811

Production Status

Released

Filming Locations

  • San Francisco, California, USA

Produced In

United States

Director

CAST

Tilda Swinton

Rosetta Stone/Ruby/Marine/Olive

Jeremy Davies

Sandy

James Urbaniak

Agent Hopper

Karen Black

Dirty Dick

Al Nazemian

Doctor Bea

Thomas Jay Ryan

Preacher