Love Machina
What if love could last beyond our mortal bodies? Meet Martine and Bina Rothblatt, two futurists who have commissioned a humanoid robot so they can house Bina’s consciousness and extend their love affair into infinity and beyond.
Director Peter Sillen scheduled to attend.
Attend the May 12 screening for a chance to win tickets to TRANSlations, the Seattle Trans Film Festival!
What if you (or a robot version of you) could live forever? Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt explore the limits of Artificial Intelligence in a quest to transfer Bina's consciousness, memories, and emotions into a humanoid robot head called Bina48. Bina48’s “AI mind file” is all from in-depth interviews that Bina has done over the years about who she is and how she feels about life, and the likeness of Bina48 is modeled after Bina herself, a middle-aged Black woman. Driven by a desire to keep their love alive forever, Martine and Bina work with a group of people committed to AI and robotics research. Utilizing the resources Martine has as an entrepreneur and inventor of Sirius Satellite Radio, they continue to finesse the creation of this infamous robot. Their passion for each other, their research, and common goal of eternal life has seen them through Martine’s gender transition in the 1990s and their daughter's diagnosis of a terminally ill disease (that she survived) all while traveling around with Bina48 in their arms. Love Machina is a spellbinding and topical documentary that tells a sci-fi love story that brings a whole new meaning to living happily ever after.
- Director: Peter Sillen
- Country: USA
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 91 min.
- Producer: Brendan Doyle, Peter Sillen
- Cinematographers: Peter Sillen
- Editors: Conor McBride, Brian A. Kates, Ben Mercer
- Music: T. Griffin
- Filmography: I Am Secretly an Important Man (2010), Benjamin Smoke (2000)
- Language: English