Bjork All is Full of Love

Hey SFAM,

Firstly, the “Give it a watch” link at the bottom is busted.

Apart from that, thanks for finding this .. it looks really interesting, which isn’t surprising, Bjork has done other stuff I like.

Hi Bergo, thanks for the catch. It’s fixed now. I’ve also uploaded a copy to my server (19 Meg download), although there appear to be like 10 versions of this already floating around on the internet.

Mr. C’s work is amazing! I esp. like the work he did, as you know, Aphex Twin, and Autechre. He is admired by so many for many reasons. But this particular video has always been emotionally provocative for me, and not due to the sexual nature of it, but the idea of contact and intimacy and consciousness of that intimacy and what that means amongst humans and soon to be droids, that may be.. and all the possibilities that allready exist around our own slight awareness of our own intimacy with in society which would be then compounded once this becomes reality, the good and the bad, moves me very much.
sigh, I guess the movie AI adresses this to a point..
Net

I agree, Net. In just a few minutes, Cunningham has been able to convey a whole sequence of possibilities. The two female robots, one mentoring the other, engaging one another in sexual contact suggests quite a few thoughts all on its own. On the one hand, if we take this to be a depiction of some semblance of a future (I don’t think it was intended to be, but is clearly more a commentary on issues in the present, but still…), this suggests that androids feel emotion, stick together, and most likely are choosing the personality (expressed through body type and actions) of who want to become.

I also wonder whether these are really robots or cyborgs. Their eyes and lips look human (well, they are of course), and they have braincases. Similar to the “Cost of Living,” perhaps this is a body choice of the future, and these two beings are now re-united in new bodies.

Chris Cunningham is an absolute genius. His video for Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy,” while in no way cyberpunk, is still one of the greatest (and most downright disturbing) music videos ever created. His short film, “Rubber Johnny” is another work of twisted brilliance. I highly recommend his installment in the “Directors” series on DVD (which contains the “Full of Love” video and the aforementioned “Daddy,” as well as several other pieces of his work). Although, when watching them, it makes the sting all that much worse when recalling his failed adaptation of Gibson’s “Neuromancer.”

GREAT video! First time I saw it on the Chris Cunningham DVD I was stunned. One of the most impressive visuals I’ve ever seen.

I might need to watch it again, but weren’t BOTH bots Bjork (say that five times fast!)?

Hi Gridbug, yeah, both bots were exactly identical. This is what made the love sequence take on that completely surreal type quality.

And Case, I had forgotten that it was Chris Cunningham that lost out on Neuromancer. Yeah, that is truly a shame.

If memory serves, didn’t Chris Cunningham do some design work on the well-meaning-but-ultimately-flawed Stallone Judge Dredd movie? Either the ABC robot (Hammerstein) or Mean Machine, I don’t recall which.. though i may be way off base as well.

And yes, I’m also waiting for someone to give Cunningham truckloads of money to make a feature film! His take on Neuromancer would have been brilliant… in the meanwhile, I’ll settle for his Rubber Johnny short.

Err… you know what I mean… *lol*

Did I get the wrong end of the stick? I was under the impression that the narrative of the video was played in reverse. In this reading, it also becomes punsihment that the smaller bjork robot is being disassembled for ‘acting like a human’.

DID THEY HAVE SEX?

very very good

“Did I get the wrong end of the stick? I was under the impression that the narrative of the video was played in reverse. In this reading, it also becomes punsihment that the smaller bjork robot is being disassembled for ‘acting like a human’.”

Eh. Wow Hehe, selective perception too much ;)? No, the entire video is about opening your senses to love, and playing punishment in reverse would make little sense.

I simply just love the video. Its so beautiful. Robots has feelings too.

…when i first saw this ‘incredible video’ i couldn’t speak…it was/is so haunting & utterly beautiful’ and my feeling was and still is, that even though this may be the future’ of our humanity,there will still be a part of ourselves that knows the “Truth”….of the ‘Spirit…and that “Love” is an undeniable’ part of who we are[in essence] as,
things become more ‘mechanized’ we should not forget this’ part of ourselves…
they’ may build robots and computers to think’ and feel emotions’ etc. etc.
i hope that ‘Love’ will prove to be too’complex’ for ‘the machine’…..

redfive29: “i hope that ‘Love’ will prove to be too’complex’ for ‘the machine’…..”

They explored that idea in “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” with a terminator impersonating the husband of a software developer for months to manipulate her work.
As a software developer and a human, I believe the most difficult challenge for those lucky enough to work with robot AI is teaching them how to learn and understand new behaviors for themselves. Even without that, they’re great at following instructions and reacting to expected responses, which is how I get along with my human girlfriend every day. It won’t be particularly hard to tell a robot how to do everything it needs to convince humans that it can feel love. And that’s all that matters, isn’t it?

Yeah. Robots can fuck. I wonder are they using somekind of plug/unplug ‘tools’ like my iPod headphones while mating? Gee… Technology makes me horny. *Geek mode: on*

Hi ZeroDivision, you raise a great question. As to whether this is all that matters, many of us are concerned with the question of actual sentience.

Hi Guys, please update the link to the Bjork Video as our website has recently changed http://www.glassworks.co.uk/content/all-full-love&search-type=brand&term=bjork