Out In The Streets, A Robot-Rapture Music Video by Africa Hitech

Mikl-em
July 2, 2011

“Out In The Streets”, a new music video by Africa Hitech on Warp Records, features malfunctioning robots that choose how they want to go out. It was directed by Sydney-based design and animation company Sixty40. They summarize the video/short film thus:

In an effort to avoid a demeaning and de-personalising recycling process, domestic helper robots choose a violent end in traffic in order to take the ontological kool-aid, activate their preferred end sequence and attain robot-rapture.

Africa Hitech even re-edited the track to better fit the film. More here.

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Actor, nerd, poet, producer, writer mikl-em made his name short so you wouldn't have to. In addition to his blog you can find his writing in "Hi Fructose" magazine and witness him almost life-sized in various plays at The Dark Room Theater in SF's Mission district.

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