“Mr Hublot” Do robots dream in steam-punk machine cities?

 

Title Mr Hublot
Author LAURENT WITZ,Alexandre Espigares(ZEILT productions)
Year 2013
Play time 11m47s
Review (Movie is Trailer)
The man is twitching buttons many times for switching on ceiling light.
In the room stay on the man is, there is elegant decoration such as picture frame.
The man is wearing strange glasses like goggles, and there is small machine on the right side of it.
In the veranda, strange plants are brought up in the planter by the man.
Every passenger on a ride like a train is wearing glasses like goggles.
In the vicinity, the scenery in the SF-like industrial city is showing.
It was a cyber-punk-like world where can’t find any living animal anywhere.
The weird plants of the planter were made of machinery.
In a building across the street, the robot is repairing the signboard.
Automatic driving vehicle is running on the road surface.
The Man discovered one robot dog ….
This is a highly completed animation work, Oscar award work.
And,Academy Award short film animation category winning work.
This work includes elements that are not found in Japanese animation work.
I felt that the unique values and sense in Europe are reflected in the content of this work “Mr Hublot“.

 

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