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Director
Andrew Legge
Credits
Producer: Ciara Whelan. Writer: Andrew Legge
Principal Cast
Dominic West, Sophie Scully,
Category
ShortAnimationFamily & Teen
A short set in a strange, quasi-Victorian world, The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden sees an inventor (Dominic West) construct a ramshackle robotic wet-nurse for his daughter after her mother dies in childbirth. As the child grows older, a robotic friend is built for her, a development which threatens the fragile stability of their very unusual lives. Made without dialogue, The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden relies on a well-employed music and effects track to tell a science-fiction story about unlikely parenting and even more unlikely friendship.
15 minutes, Ireland, 2012, Colour
A PRIVATE LIFE 11.00, 18.00
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: CONCRETE PROOF (DOUBLE BILL) 11.50
DISCLOSURE DAY 13.10
EAFFI DISCOVERIES: JET LAG IN SUMMER + Q&A 18.20
OBSESSION 11.20
ODYSSEYS: AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD 16.00
ROSEBUSH PRUNING 15.50, 20.30
THE INVITE 13.40, 18.15, 20.45
THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD 16.10, 20.55
THE LAST VIKING 13.20
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