Robots are on stage. This week Teatre Arniches is hosting various events of the ROS Film Festival 2023, held in Alicante from 16 to 27 November. For this reason, After three days of short film screenings, Arniches faces the final stage of the event With two good suggestions.
The final session of the short films participating in the competition will be shown at Teatre Arniches on Friday at 19.30, and then the final decision of the jury will be announced. The announcement of the winning short films will be made by Alfonso Vilalonga, the composer of the film’s soundtrack. Robot DreamsAfter the winners are announced, it will be shown again in Arniches at 21.30. Pablo Berger’s animated film tells the story of Dog, a lonely dog living in Manhattan, who one day decides to get a robot friend.
The public will be able to have fun on Saturday, the 25th at 19.30. control freak A show by Kulu Orr that combines clever humor and advanced technology: the artist controls almost everything on and off stage with instruments developed over the last 17 years. Kulu Orr develops into a funny and touching character who struggles to engage with the audience while struggling with his social awkwardness and complex systems on stage.
Kulu Orr is a director and multidisciplinary artist living in Israel. Over the last 25 years, he has received intensive training in two areas: theater, circus arts and music on the one hand; and physics, computers and audiovisual creation on the other.
Finally, on Sunday the 26th at 18:00, Arniches bids farewell to this edition of the ROS Film Festival with a dance for the family audience. Patience. The arrival of the robot on Mars inspired the Alicante company Marroch, which was recently awarded the prize at the last edition of the Valencia Performing Arts Awards. Inside PatienceIn addition to bringing dance to a younger audience, the work also depicts a dystopian world that helps the audience become aware of the state of the planet.
Further deepening the organization of this work, Marroch is a contemporary dance company founded by Salvador Rocher, María Palazón and Melodía García. Three dancers who aim to show a combination of different movement languages to reach audiences of all types. Marroch is a young, fresh, dynamic and persistent company with many concerns and desires, aiming to create emotions and influence the audience. to another place.
It should be noted that ROS. The world’s first robotic sci-fi short film event It was born with the aim of disseminating stories in which robots and artificial intelligence are the protagonists, alone or together with humans, through different events.