Directed by Alex Prager, USA, 2018, UNCANNY VALLEY is a short film just over two minutes long.
After an artificial intelligence experiment goes awry, Lee (Cate Blanchett) realizes that what they created to save humanity might be precisely what ends up destroying it.
“I wrote a screenplay about a scientist who creates robots in the image of his lover. His plan is to help society, but everything goes wrong. The scientist decides to destroy the robots, but they kill him and leave. I’ve been reading a lot about what’s happening in the world of artificial intelligence (the title ‘Uncanny Valley’ refers to the unsettling feeling that humanoid objects evoke), and it’s not such a far-fetched idea,” commented Alex Prager about the short film.