TEKNOLUST

TEKNOLUST, 2002
UK, Germany | 35mm, Color, 85’ | English
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak

This film directed by Lynn Hehrsman-Leeson, one of the forerunners of video arts, by using an alternative style can be described as a "high-tech comedy." Rosetta is a biogenetic expert working on artificial intelligence; she loads her DNA onto a computer program and generates three replicas of herself. The story opens up and develops around those three clones that are identical but totally different in their hairstyles, costumes and characters. Teknolust analyzes the decadence of modern times that has been caught in a cleft between human emotions and technology. Full of computer graphic images it is an attempt at cyber-parody that seems to be coming from the 80’s.