I ❤️ ROBOT
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival
AI-made Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” AI-made films · What this means · Its maker can have it taken off.
By Morgane Soulier, as its festival's page names them. This site's record of that page; the title and description are as the page gives them.
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About this film
I ❤️ ROBOT follows a woman who welcomes X9, a humanoid assistant, into her home. What begins as a simple relationship of convenience gradually shifts into something far more intimate, blurring the boundaries between use, habit, attachment and love. Without dialogue, the film observes the small gestures through which a machine can become part of a human life, and asks a deliberately unresolved question: do we need the other to truly love us in order to love them? Rather than imagining a machine that rebels, manipulates or tries to become human, I ❤️ ROBOT turns the lens in the opposite direction. X9 simply does what he was designed to do. It is the human relationship with him that changes. A story about technology, certainly. But above all, a story about us, and about what may happen when the boundary between an object we use and a being we care about becomes increasingly difficult to see.
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