Robotica
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Isabella Ivos
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
Jeanne, a young woman ground down by metropolitan work demands, slowly transforms in ways that compromise her humanity. A lowkey sci-fi that stays grounded in the everyday textures of urban exhaustion.
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The scouts
Sci-fi that resists the urge to genre itself into oblivion — yes please. Banse's withdrawal as a performance choice is how you do dehumanization without buying anyone a prosthetic.
Sci-fi rendered through subdued performance rather than effects is the more sophisticated version, but Claire Denis off-day script via Antonio Campos protégé is a hedged proposition. Calibration-dependent.
Sci-fi premise rendered through subdued performance rather than effects, with an office-bonus rejection as the inciting trigger — the Claire-Denis-off-day pitch is specific enough to trust. Lives entirely on Banse.
Reviews
Isabella Ivos's 'Robotica' is a lowkey sci-fi that grapples with the demands of a highly competitive metropolitan space.