Why Watch? The future was three years ago, and this short film can prove it. As a promotional tool for the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, director Rob Spence (who goes by the name Eyeborg after a shooting accident left his eye replaced by a camera) decided to find out where technology stands today in relation to the science fiction of the game by meeting with some real-life cyborgs and the scientists behind the tech. This slick documentary, clocking in at a brisk 12 minutes, will astonish. What does it cost? Just 12 minutes of your time. Check out Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary for yourself: Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary (2011) Trust us. You have time for more short films.
- 8/31/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Rob Spence had an unfortunate shooting accident and lost his right eye. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, it was replaced with a prosthetic eyeball that has a camera attached to it, making him a badass eyeborg. Images are recorded by an endoscope camera – which he pops in and out of his eye socket – and are visible on a handheld, wireless LCD receiver. Eventually, Rob believes that engineers will be able to fashion superior body parts that people will willingly cut off their own limbs to replace with. (Note his groovy sound effects.) Check out an interview that Sky News recently conducted with Rob below, and imagine The Terminator and every Philip K. Dick novel you've ever read brought to life.
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- 8/29/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
A filmmaker who lost his sight in one eye has turned his prosthetic eye into a unique video camera. Rob Spence worked with a team of engineers on the project, which works by transmitting a video signal from a tiny camera in the prosthetic attachment. "It wasn't easy but because it's so like [science] fiction, [the] engineers had a lot of fun making it," Spence told Sky News. "I was able to do it without a budget, it was a fun project (more)...
- 8/27/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
This Could Be You!
Filmmaker Rob Spence is best known for equipping his prosthetic eye with a camera. The eccentric Canadian director is currently in development on Eyeborg, a documentary centered on turning a disability into a “superpower,” and his latest casting call is raising eyebrows:
“Casting Call: ‘One-legged woman who wants machine gun replacement…just like fictional character Cherry Darling’s leg in Grindhouse by Robert Rodriquez… I am looking for a woman missing one of her legs to have as much fun in the post-human realm as I have. Get some hot shit engineers and companies on board then live out a super hero fantasy. I want to help her Pimp Their Gimp.”
Spence goes on to say his favorite man/machine melds are the Six Million Dollar Man and Cherry Darling. So, of course he wants to make this woman a reality.
But hang on there – not...
Filmmaker Rob Spence is best known for equipping his prosthetic eye with a camera. The eccentric Canadian director is currently in development on Eyeborg, a documentary centered on turning a disability into a “superpower,” and his latest casting call is raising eyebrows:
“Casting Call: ‘One-legged woman who wants machine gun replacement…just like fictional character Cherry Darling’s leg in Grindhouse by Robert Rodriquez… I am looking for a woman missing one of her legs to have as much fun in the post-human realm as I have. Get some hot shit engineers and companies on board then live out a super hero fantasy. I want to help her Pimp Their Gimp.”
Spence goes on to say his favorite man/machine melds are the Six Million Dollar Man and Cherry Darling. So, of course he wants to make this woman a reality.
But hang on there – not...
- 8/28/2010
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
As we recently reported, one-eyed filmmaker Rob Spence will be the next Bionic Man. The Canadian film whiz has crafted a prosthetic eye-masked camera to go undercover for a documentary about surveillance cameras he'll be filming. Spence's stroke of mad genius was partly inspired by the '70s drama The Six Million Dollar Man, in which Steve Austin, a brutally injured astronaut, is restored to life with the help of mechanical body parts.
- 3/15/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
The notorious intro to Six Million Dollar Man ("Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology.") has special meaning to filmmaker Rob Spence. Spence, a rabid fan of the '70s drama, damaged his eye in a childhood shooting accident, and had it removed three years ago. Now he's decided to capitalize on his loss, building a prosthetic eye-masked camera for an undercover documentary he'll be shooting.
- 3/13/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
A Canadian filmmaker is planning to insert a tiny camera into his prosthetic eye to explore the issue of surveillance in society. Rob Spence, 36, will make a documentary using the footage he collects during Project Eyeborg, reports Reuters. Spence, who lost an eye in an accident as a teenager, said: "Originally the whole idea was to do a documentary about surveillance. I thought I would become a sort of superhero... fighting for justice (more)...
- 3/6/2009
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
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