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I'm looking for a YouTube clip that I stumbled across on my last iPhone. I lost a lot when I replaced my phone, so I lost the bookmark too (had to replace my phone right after moving cross-country before creating a backup on the PC here). I'm having a TON of trouble finding this specific clip again but I really want to show my sister.
I originally found it mentioned on a blog using the hook "Russian version of Wall-e" or something along those lines. From there, it linked to a YouTube clip from a user with a few other clips from the same (famous?) Russian director. I called my brother to get him to watch it and had to give him the poster's YouTube user name because the Russian characters in the video titles were nearly impossible to search for. I had the same problem when trying to bring it up in the YouTube app to bookmark it in the first place (not all web-linked and embedded YouTube vids load the same way on an iPhone and not all show up in the history), so I had to search for the user instead of the video there too. Though the video's origins are clearly Russian, I believe that it's based on the writing of a non-Russian futurist and plays on our cold-war fears.
Anyway, here is a description:
It is a short Russian-made animation of what seems to be a post-humanity future where a care-taking robot obliviously goes through it's daily routine after a biological or nuclear event kills everyone. It starts out showing an egg and various mechanical structures preparing it to serve breakfast. The location is said to be California in a typically warm and sunny city (I'm pretty sure it was in SoCal), which is revealed to be uncharacteristically frozen (in the grips of a severe nuclear winter). The day is New Year's Eve/Day in some future year. The care-taking robot "wakes" the dead humans and causes their disturbed bodies to disintegrate, but continues talking to the piles of ash and serving them food. After marking the new year and releasing confetti, attacks an "intruding" seagull and inadvertently damages the compound. The gull pathetically flings itself against a holographic viewscreen "window" depicting the Earth before humanity and their wars so drastically changed it, but the care-taking robot continues its attack, destroying the viewscreen and, eventually, some important-looking part of the compound/itself. This seems to trigger a nuclear explosion (strange... I guess it's a nuclear-powered compound but it still wouldn't do that). The bodies disintegrate when they are disturbed indicating that this is the first day since their death, though others seem to think that the robot has been doing this daily for a long time with no one left to take care of. There is some poetry at the end that is from an American poet IIRC.
I originally found it mentioned on a blog using the hook "Russian version of Wall-e" or something along those lines. From there, it linked to a YouTube clip from a user with a few other clips from the same (famous?) Russian director. I called my brother to get him to watch it and had to give him the poster's YouTube user name because the Russian characters in the video titles were nearly impossible to search for. I had the same problem when trying to bring it up in the YouTube app to bookmark it in the first place (not all web-linked and embedded YouTube vids load the same way on an iPhone and not all show up in the history), so I had to search for the user instead of the video there too. Though the video's origins are clearly Russian, I believe that it's based on the writing of a non-Russian futurist and plays on our cold-war fears.
Anyway, here is a description:
It is a short Russian-made animation of what seems to be a post-humanity future where a care-taking robot obliviously goes through it's daily routine after a biological or nuclear event kills everyone. It starts out showing an egg and various mechanical structures preparing it to serve breakfast. The location is said to be California in a typically warm and sunny city (I'm pretty sure it was in SoCal), which is revealed to be uncharacteristically frozen (in the grips of a severe nuclear winter). The day is New Year's Eve/Day in some future year. The care-taking robot "wakes" the dead humans and causes their disturbed bodies to disintegrate, but continues talking to the piles of ash and serving them food. After marking the new year and releasing confetti, attacks an "intruding" seagull and inadvertently damages the compound. The gull pathetically flings itself against a holographic viewscreen "window" depicting the Earth before humanity and their wars so drastically changed it, but the care-taking robot continues its attack, destroying the viewscreen and, eventually, some important-looking part of the compound/itself. This seems to trigger a nuclear explosion (strange... I guess it's a nuclear-powered compound but it still wouldn't do that). The bodies disintegrate when they are disturbed indicating that this is the first day since their death, though others seem to think that the robot has been doing this daily for a long time with no one left to take care of. There is some poetry at the end that is from an American poet IIRC.
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