Winner of dozens of film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie written by rising Asian American director Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world.
In "My Robot Baby," a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In "The Robot Fixer," a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In "Machine Love," an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In "Clay," an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as "the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve," the screenplay is a rich and rewarding reading experience and follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes Pak's scripts from his popular comic shorts Asian Pride Porn, All Amateur Ecstasy, Mouse and Cat Fight Tonight. It features original commentary by the author and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
"An exhilarating ride by a masterful filmmaker, four utterly engrossing tales which speak with the wisdom of parables to our technologically-obsessed age. Greg Pak infuses each moment of this beautiful film with an infectious wonder at the joys and complexities of existence."
— David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song.
"If this well-done collection of four shorts was on paper instead of film, you'd find it in the pages of The New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly. Writer-director Greg Pak focuses on our contemporary computerized lives -- occasionally delving into the future -- in a weighty and relevant anthology."
- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
"Robot Stories' tagline is ‘science fiction from the heart,’ a phrase author and genre specialist Steven Schneider finds appropriate. ‘Robot Stories plays differently from a lot of the science-fiction films I've seen,’ said Schneider ... ‘It made me reflect on science fiction’s deep and long-standing romantic side. Greg is less interested in trying to pull the wool over our eyes by giving us something spectacular-looking than he is in exploring human relationships.’… In fact, 2004 may end up being American cinema’s year of the robot, with Pak and his independent sci-fi movie getting the jump on Hollywood."
— Jason Silverman, Wired
"Forget Hellboy. Robot Stories is the real deal — a science-fiction with a brain and a heart."
— Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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In "My Robot Baby," a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In "The Robot Fixer," a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In "Machine Love," an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In "Clay," an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as "the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve," the screenplay is a rich and rewarding reading experience and follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes Pak's scripts from his popular comic shorts Asian Pride Porn, All Amateur Ecstasy, Mouse and Cat Fight Tonight. It features original commentary by the author and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
"An exhilarating ride by a masterful filmmaker, four utterly engrossing tales which speak with the wisdom of parables to our technologically-obsessed age. Greg Pak infuses each moment of this beautiful film with an infectious wonder at the joys and complexities of existence."
— David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song.
"If this well-done collection of four shorts was on paper instead of film, you'd find it in the pages of The New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly. Writer-director Greg Pak focuses on our contemporary computerized lives -- occasionally delving into the future -- in a weighty and relevant anthology."
- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
"Robot Stories' tagline is ‘science fiction from the heart,’ a phrase author and genre specialist Steven Schneider finds appropriate. ‘Robot Stories plays differently from a lot of the science-fiction films I've seen,’ said Schneider ... ‘It made me reflect on science fiction’s deep and long-standing romantic side. Greg is less interested in trying to pull the wool over our eyes by giving us something spectacular-looking than he is in exploring human relationships.’… In fact, 2004 may end up being American cinema’s year of the robot, with Pak and his independent sci-fi movie getting the jump on Hollywood."
— Jason Silverman, Wired
"Forget Hellboy. Robot Stories is the real deal — a science-fiction with a brain and a heart."
— Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Winner of dozens of film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie written by rising Asian American director Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world.
In "My Robot Baby," a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In "The Robot Fixer," a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In "Machine Love," an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In "Clay," an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as "the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve," the screenplay is a rich and rewarding reading experience and follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes Pak's scripts from his popular comic shorts Asian Pride Porn, All Amateur Ecstasy, Mouse and Cat Fight Tonight. It features original commentary by the author and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
"An exhilarating ride by a masterful filmmaker, four utterly engrossing tales which speak with the wisdom of parables to our technologically-obsessed age. Greg Pak infuses each moment of this beautiful film with an infectious wonder at the joys and complexities of existence."
— David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song.
"If this well-done collection of four shorts was on paper instead of film, you'd find it in the pages of The New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly. Writer-director Greg Pak focuses on our contemporary computerized lives -- occasionally delving into the future -- in a weighty and relevant anthology."
- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
"Robot Stories' tagline is ‘science fiction from the heart,’ a phrase author and genre specialist Steven Schneider finds appropriate. ‘Robot Stories plays differently from a lot of the science-fiction films I've seen,’ said Schneider ... ‘It made me reflect on science fiction’s deep and long-standing romantic side. Greg is less interested in trying to pull the wool over our eyes by giving us something spectacular-looking than he is in exploring human relationships.’… In fact, 2004 may end up being American cinema’s year of the robot, with Pak and his independent sci-fi movie getting the jump on Hollywood."
— Jason Silverman, Wired
"Forget Hellboy. Robot Stories is the real deal — a science-fiction with a brain and a heart."
— Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
In "My Robot Baby," a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In "The Robot Fixer," a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In "Machine Love," an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In "Clay," an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.
Praised as "the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve," the screenplay is a rich and rewarding reading experience and follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
This collection includes Pak's scripts from his popular comic shorts Asian Pride Porn, All Amateur Ecstasy, Mouse and Cat Fight Tonight. It features original commentary by the author and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.
"An exhilarating ride by a masterful filmmaker, four utterly engrossing tales which speak with the wisdom of parables to our technologically-obsessed age. Greg Pak infuses each moment of this beautiful film with an infectious wonder at the joys and complexities of existence."
— David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song.
"If this well-done collection of four shorts was on paper instead of film, you'd find it in the pages of The New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly. Writer-director Greg Pak focuses on our contemporary computerized lives -- occasionally delving into the future -- in a weighty and relevant anthology."
- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
"Robot Stories' tagline is ‘science fiction from the heart,’ a phrase author and genre specialist Steven Schneider finds appropriate. ‘Robot Stories plays differently from a lot of the science-fiction films I've seen,’ said Schneider ... ‘It made me reflect on science fiction’s deep and long-standing romantic side. Greg is less interested in trying to pull the wool over our eyes by giving us something spectacular-looking than he is in exploring human relationships.’… In fact, 2004 may end up being American cinema’s year of the robot, with Pak and his independent sci-fi movie getting the jump on Hollywood."
— Jason Silverman, Wired
"Forget Hellboy. Robot Stories is the real deal — a science-fiction with a brain and a heart."
— Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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