Teknolust

Teknolust

Sloan Foundation Film

Release Date

2010

Director

  • Lynn Hershman Leeson

Cast

  • Tilda Swinton
  • Jeremy Davies
  • James Urbaniak

Awards

  • Hamptons International Film Festival, 2002

A bio-geneticist has created a type of Self Replicating Automaton, which looks like a human being, but is in fact part machine and part living organism.

Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, bio-geneticist Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) downloads her own DNA into her computer and succeeds in breeding three Self Replicating Automatons that are part human, part intelligent machines. The SRAs act as 'portals' on the Internet, helping users to fulfill their dreams. Because they were bred only with Rosetta's DNA, they need the balance of a Y chromosome, or male sperm, to survive. This futuristic comedy puts a hilarious spin on contemporary advancements in science and technology.

Possible Topics

  • Cloning
  • Intelligent machines
  • Sequencing the Y chromosome

Past Programs

2017

Craving the Y chromosome

Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY

2021

[ONLINE] Clones are people two

Film Streams, Omaha, NE

2023

Personal encryptions: Performing identity and sexuality IRL in URL

Media Arts Center San Diego, San Diego, CA

2024