Astro Black: We are the Robots (2010)

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". We are the Robots re-imagines the iconic scene in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), where sci-entists use a synthesizer keyboard to communicate with an alien mothership. In Soda_Jerk’s revision of these events, Kraftwerk play sequences from their own music and the mothership responds with frag-ments of tracks that have sampled Kraftwerk. This jam session– between the original and sampled ver-sions of Kraftwerk’s music–explores the impact of German electronic music on Afrofuturist sonic culture.

Released Jan. 1, 2010 7 min None+

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-video, imdb.astro-black, imdb.mash-up, imdb.hip-hop, imdb.montage, imdb.collage, imdb.video-collage + 28 more, imdb.sampling, imdb.extracts-tribute, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.afrofuturism, imdb.art, imdb.robot, imdb.remix, imdb.multi-channel, imdb.reference-to-star-trek, imdb.planet, imdb.outer-space, imdb.space-travel, imdb.found-footage, imdb.art-installation, imdb.compilation, imdb.compilation-film, imdb.film-history, imdb.film-clip, imdb.nostalgia, imdb.reference-to-james-bond, imdb.time-based-art, imdb.music-sampling, imdb.video-art, imdb.video-installation, imdb.avant-garde-short, imdb.reference-to-a-cult-film, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.underground-short