Tilda Swinton plays Rosetta Stone, a biogeneticist, who invents a way to create Self-Replicating Automatons, and she secretly creates three of them using her own DNA. The three are named Ruby, Olive, and Marine (all also played by Swinton, with clothes and makeup matching the colors that are their names, for easy audience identification). They regularly need male sperm to survive, and Ruby has been programmed to go out into the real world to get it, while the other two SRAs stay in permanent seclusion.
Complications ensue, although the film does feel like it was stretched out a bit longer than the material warranted. It was all great fun, mind you, as well as inventive and slickly produced, but it just didn't feel like there was too much below the surface.
The director/writer was at the San Francisco International Film Festival screening on 4/30/2002 where I saw this to answer questions. She indicated that the idea started as a joke, and came out of the Frankenstein story. It was shot in 20 days on high definition, 24 frames/second progressive video (aka "24P"), which made the extensive digital compositing easier. The budget was under $2 million. It is expected to be released in the Fall, and there was also talk of a DVD, which will be direct from the digital sources rather than scanned from the film.
Complications ensue, although the film does feel like it was stretched out a bit longer than the material warranted. It was all great fun, mind you, as well as inventive and slickly produced, but it just didn't feel like there was too much below the surface.
The director/writer was at the San Francisco International Film Festival screening on 4/30/2002 where I saw this to answer questions. She indicated that the idea started as a joke, and came out of the Frankenstein story. It was shot in 20 days on high definition, 24 frames/second progressive video (aka "24P"), which made the extensive digital compositing easier. The budget was under $2 million. It is expected to be released in the Fall, and there was also talk of a DVD, which will be direct from the digital sources rather than scanned from the film.