The Twitch-curated Attack The Bloc series of Cold War era science fiction films from the Eastern Bloc continues at the Tiff Bell Lightbox tonight at 9:15 with a screening of Marek Piestrak's Test Pilot Pirxa.Corporate interests want to replace human space crews with lifelike robots ("finite non-linears"), arguing that it will be cheaper and safer than sending humans into space. But steely Commander Pirx (Sergei Desnitsky) is having none of it: he knows this isn't about safety or cost effectiveness, but rather about lining the pockets of big business. Determined to prove the superiority of humanity, he agrees to pilot a test flight commanding a crew made up of both humans and nonlinears, without knowing which is which -- but when disaster strikes, to...
- 1/24/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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