Uncanny Valley



—2K video
—8:09
—The Posthuman City
—NTU Centre for Contemporary Art
—Singapore
—2019
–text
—video


[installation shot at NTU CCA Singapore]


Written and Directed by: Karlos Gil
Executive Director: Belen Zahera
Production Designer: Toshio Yamamoto
Editon: Miyako Yamada
Actress: Suhui Xia
Casting Director: Belén Zahera
Sound Composer: Karlos Gil
Art Direction: Belén Zahera
Locations: Hikaru Takemitsu


Madrid Unit

Unit Production Manager: Antonio M. Villalba
Director of Photography: Irene Grego
Assistant Producer: Roberto Blaya
Assistant camera: Nicolás Ibañez
Aux camera: Crisol Carballal
Gaffer: Alba Gómez
Eléctric: Filomena
Make up: Cristina Seafer

Tokyo Unit

Unit Production Manager: Yuko Yamada
Director of Photography: Aiko Ishikawa
Camera: Rai Kimura
Gaffer: Usagi Yamagawa
Robot & AI: Rei Takamasha

Special Thanks
Maholo Uchida, Hiroshi Isiguro, MIRAIKAN Museum, ATR Laboratories, Osaka University, Bernardo José da Souza, Lorena Muñoz–Alonso, Fernando Baños, Escuela Universitaria TAI, Toshio Yamamoto, Miyako Yamada, EXOTICA and Belén Zahera.

Produced with the help of Comunidad de Madrid Visual–Arts Grant. 
Uncanny Valley is a dystopian sci-fi film that deals with the relationship between machines and humans based on the encounter between an android and its doppelgänger, reflecting on the duality of animism and technology. It explores complex existential problems due to the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis in the field of robotics, in which an android created too much in the image and likeness of a human faces rejection. 

Through this relationship, “Uncanny Valley” explores the communication between different forms of intelligences, specially between humans and machines, and produces an immersive, constantly changing environment, in which the edit infects matter with memory creating a post–human consciousness. 

For this film, Karlos Gil worked with the Ishiguro Laboratory in Osaka, one of the most advanced research centers in the development of robotics and the study of the relationship between humans and androids. He has also worked with the ATR Laboratories in Kyoto and the Miraikan Museum in Tokyo. This collaboration between the artist and leading robotics specialists enabled a face to face meeting between a human actress and an android actress.


























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