Cybernetic Grandma

A haunting, poetic puppet animation that blends cold mechanical dread with tender warmth, unsettling yet strangely moving.

Directed by

Jiří Trnka

Genres

Animation, Science fiction

Starring

Otýlie Beníšková, Jana Werichová

Overview

Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother’s loving arms again. Trnka’s artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.

How it feels

Eerie, melancholic, dark and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Family, technology, isolation, identity

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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