Robot Dreams Made Flesh
2015
United States
5 mins
Music Video Competition
| Robert Lyons, Michael Sullivan | |
| Robert Lyons | |
‘Robot Dreams Made Flesh’ is an optical FX experiment combining time lapse photography with in-camera multiple exposures on 16mm film using Bolex cameras and an Oxberry animation stand. The subject is model maker/animator Michael Sullivan at work on his stop motion opus ‘The Sex Life of Robots’.
About the Director
Robert Lyons is an animation artist with a history in photographic and optical special effects who has worked with many of NYC’s most prominent production houses. In 1992, he founded his own animation/effects company, Interface Arts. Currently, he is working as a media arts professor at Pratt Institute and The University of the Arts teaching film and animation courses while also creating his own independent animation, documentary, and experimental films.
Awards
2015 San Francisco Film Awards – Honorable mention
