I would suggest this film is more relevanttoday than it was when we made it. I think this suggestion of a benign universe in which machines and humans can not only interreact, but also be dependent on one another is not a bad thing to just bathe in for 90 minutes. Just as a little trial.
My name is Tilda Swinton. For the purposes of thisinterview, I'm a performer and I'm here to talk about Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Teknolust."
我是蒂尔达·斯文顿。此次采访我是一名表演者,今天我来这谈谈琳恩·赫什曼-李森导演的《人造人》。
Firstand foremost, I'd describe it as a fairy tale about loneliness above anything. It's about sort of cyber genius called Rosetta Stone, who cyber clones herself three times. Ruby red, Olive green, Marine blue, the pixels of the video.
So Rosetta has createdthese three SRAs self-replicating automata. She's never really explicit about why, but you get the sense that she's made them for company.
罗塞塔制造了三个自我复制的机器人。她从来没有明确说明原因,但你能感觉到她是为了陪伴而制造出来的。
So I don't know that it's really aboutwomen, particularly. I think it's more more about humans and it is very much about humans, humans, machines. What's the difference?
It approaches the concept ofAI, but it's a benign world in which AI exists, and I think we're really out of touch with that. I'm not the first person to remind us that, you know, if a machine is soulless, then it's because no one bothered to put the soul in there.
Rosetta does put the soul into her SRAs. There issomething beautiful about the way they long for contact. You know, having had no sexual experience at all and not needing a man to create her family, I think is kind of a gender free zone in a way. It creates a gender free zone in that household.
Rosetta, who I have a particular affectionfor, I have to say partly 'cause of the wig, which still looks on back to front, but the others had to be distinct. These impersonations, and they are impersonations of, of four versions of a person.
Ruby, who is the one who goes outto hunt and gather, needs to be programmed as a seductress as she sleeps. She has old Hollywood films over her so that she's downloading these pickup lines. What's the pickup line?
"You're looking good, Frankie. You’ve got a natural rhythm."
“你看起来不错,弗兰基。你有一种天生的节奏感。”
And she has to actually parrot it because she hasno innate impulse to be a seductress, because she's self replicated and she's kind of cordoned off and self supporting. That's something Tinder, Grinder say no more. I mean, this is is something that since we made the film, has become a sort of everyday part of many human lives.
The lonelyend up with company, and that's a good ending, is really hopeful and very rare these days. It's very, very unusual for anybody to talk with. Such a sense of optimism about the relationship between AI and human energies.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is, she's a visionary in sometimes quite uncomfortable way. She doesn't really seem to recognize limitations, even in terms of limitations of thought. She just goes there and she very often goes there 20 years in advance of other people catching up to the same kind of thinking.
And I think this film is a realexample of that. It's a sort of ridiculous sci-fi comedy with people in, you know, monochrome clothes and driving fantastic little green electric cars around San Francisco, you know, and, and it's, it's ludicrous. The film is ludicrous, sets out to be ludicrous, but we always wanted it to be rough.
I suppose thefirst thing about film about cinema is just the opportunity to be quiet and to observe what somebody might be looking at themselves. And that may sound like a very mundane point, but that's rare.
我想,电影的第一件事就是让人有机会静下心来,观察别人在看什么。这可能听起来很庸俗,但却很难得。
And so as such, it's an empathymachine. It's an opportunity to temporarily for whatever, 90 minutes or these days, three hours, to suspend your own attachments, just to have that sort of opening is really I think an incredible force for social change.