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When a sheltered teenage girl is caught cheating on her boyfriend with her family’s new robot, she must choose between her old life and her new love.
"Computer Love" by Joe Picozzi
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Quinn, a sheltered teenage girl in the future, begins cheating on her dating-app-arranged boyfriend with her family's new robot houseboy, Michael. They quickly fall in love and exchange fantasies of running away together. After her parents catch them, they announce they're turning Michael in for a new model. Quinn must decide whether or not she should abandon her family and everything she's ever known to pursue her love with a machine.
"Computer Love" Credits:
Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by
Joseph Picozzi
Producers
Connor Williams
Beidi Wang
Mishal Mahmud
Story by
Joseph Picozzi &
John Fairchild
Cinematographer
Chaochen Li
Production Designer
Yuelin Jolene Zhao
Costume Designer
Sophia Weltman
Casting Directors
Suzanne Yavuz CSA
Jaqueline Gallagher CSA
Art Directors
Mengqing Yuan
Adele Biraghi
Assistant Art Director
Ashley Popiwchak
Sound Design & Mix
Jack Sobo
Original Score by
Dummy (Jack Sobo & Jon Sewitz)
1st Assistant Director
John Fairchild
Unit Production Manager
Anabel Inigo
2nd Assistant Director/Script Supervisor
Josephine Lewis
Sound Recordist
Bun Real
VFX Supervisor & Artist
Stephen Burchell
1st Assistant Camera
Gerald Tineo
2nd Assistant Camera
Hongshi Zhong
Gaffer
Tony Tehle
Key Grip
John Hanle
Best Boy
Hao Geng
Head MUA & Hair Stylist
Dou Pothmolita
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Dou Pothmolita
Color by
Chaochen Li
Costume & Hair & Makeup Assistant
Eva Zapata
Set Decorator
Joseph Jin
VFX Consultant
Jack Longo
Assistant Editor
John Fairchild
Back Cast Model
Joey Swift
Production Assistant
Lauren Germani
COVID Compliance Officer
Ashley Buelher
On Set Photographer
McKayla Chandler
Hair/Makeup Assistant
Yoko Haitz
Production Coordinator
Henrik Larsen
Music Supervisor
Livy Rodriguez-Behar
Logo and Poster Designed by
Jasmin Chavez
Titles and Credits Designed by
Joseph Picozzi
Science Advisor
Seth Neel, Ph.D.
“New Love”
Written by Kevin Shoemaker
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Executive Producers
Billie Dimare
Thomas Dimare
Thomas Dimare II
Doreen Picozzi
Joseph A Picozzi
Connor Masterson
Associate Producers
Carl Dimitri
Bill & Lisa Dimitri
Brett Erik Johnson
Bob & Maria Marcello
Sean Marchionte
Michael Marchionte
Lila & Victor Neel
Nicholas & Lisa Zammarelli
Cast:
Ali Gallo
Sean Ormond
Anne Stedman
Shaw Jones
Ryan Scott Morris
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@JoePicozzi 3 месяца назад

Hope you all enjoy! Happy to answer any questions here. What do you think happens next?

@commericalking 3 месяца назад

Would love to see the story continue!

@douglasemsantos 3 месяца назад

I really enjoyed it! If I watched this ten years ago, I would think it's just sci-fi, but in 2024 this is so close to real life.

@skyblack433 3 месяца назад

What if they get to the city, try being together but end up meeting the other guy and his robot. The robots fall in love and the humans are left behind.

@annacroix 3 месяца назад

A world full of the living dead. The ones still alive suffering tremendously, more than anything humanly bearable in the long term. There’s always been aspects of this in society but now it’s too much. It suffocates life. It has to separate off from the world of the living, or end. Over a century ago, the Theosophists theorized that it separates off into another realm that looks like Earth called “the 8th Sphere”. Apparently, we all have to pass through it. We’re probably even living in it now. That’s why you hear all the talk about us living in a “simulation”. After however many years, the people who are still alive inside pass out of it, while others must remain there for however long until they can join the world of the living. Maybe some of them never leave. I don’t know.

@annacroix 3 месяца назад

@@skyblack433 The problem is that we need to expand our definition of “human” and “robot”. The robot and the teenage girl in the film are far more human than the other things that call themselves human in the film, who are the actual robots. You also hear them say that they’re taking drugs to make them not feel anything. If you choose not to feel and process your emotions for long enough, it eventually disqualifies you from life, or feeling alive. There would be no Free Will otherwise. Here’s the even darker truth: Those robotic humans feel a lot. They feel hatred and an unquenchable desire to destroy anything that still feels alive. They’re aligned to death and the deepest pits of hell where they came from. The drugs that numb them just allow them to go “living” in a way that appears “normal”, with no cause for concern. Inside, they’re full of violence and lack the ability to love. Outside, they’re upstanding citizens. How many people do you know like this?

@robert-yv2yj 3 месяца назад

When acting, script, etc all come together. A beautiful story well told. All involved deserve congratulating.

@neilmendrico5262 3 месяца назад

Michael looks like young Depp, he's really good.

@jossmaxwell00 3 месяца назад

Bit robotic don't cha think.🤣

@neilmendrico5262 3 месяца назад

@@jossmaxwell00 hahaha 😉😉

@masiridr1198 3 месяца назад

My thought exactly. If they wanted to do a prequel to any of Depp's films, this is the kid, AND he seems to be able to act.

@lgtbqisapsyop 3 месяца назад

could be a clone, i agree he is a dead ringer for him.

@intuitivetasha113 2 месяца назад

Yes

@douglasemsantos 3 месяца назад

Quinn asks Michael what he wants out of his life, as if this was something every human would easily be able to answer. If that's so, I may be a robot, because just like Michael, I haven't figured it out yet.

@nicolasknauf4206 2 месяца назад

True that... True that

@daviviana8016 3 месяца назад

I don't really believe in robots having conscience etc, but if one day they make robots *that* lifelike, no one can blame us if we fall in love with one of them >:/

@14s0cc3r14 3 месяца назад

What is conscience and why can’t artificial machines have it?

@daviviana8016 3 месяца назад

@@14s0cc3r14 I'm one of those ppl that is skeptic but somehow still believes there's something more than just the brain that makes us live and think etc. A living being develops itself in unpredictable ways. A machine is completely predictable and if it isn't then it's considered a bad machine. Machines are just materials put together in such a way that they have no option but to behave the way you want, because of physics etc. So computers don't obey people, they're just matter behaving in the only way it behave also 'computers' include AI, since anything that runs on a hardware is basically part of the hardware. So they're not alive, they're just mechanical pieces moving and working in the only way physics etc will allow them to

@14s0cc3r14 3 месяца назад

@@daviviana8016 Are humans not subject to the laws of physics?

@daviviana8016 3 месяца назад

@@14s0cc3r14 I meant that I think living beings have something more than physics, I never said if you're subject to the laws of physics you're a machine

@landru27 3 месяца назад

@@daviviana8016 If humans can have "something more" that is outside the realm of physics -- undetectable and unmeasurable -- then a given computer, program, or robot could have "something more" as well. You cannot say it's not there just because you cannot detect it and cannot explain how it got there. You cannot detect the "something more" in a human, and you cannot explain how it got there. (If you claim it got there because Odin or Zeus or Ixchel or some other Great Being put it there, then someone can claim the same thing about their robot, and you have no grounds for disputing them -- unless you allow them the very same grounds for disputing you.) So if it is valid to assert that humans have "something more" while offering nothing more than your belief, then it's valid to asset that robots could have the same "something more" without needing to prove it at all. I personally think that it's more productive to recognize that consciousness can arise in something which is purely physical (such as a human brain), and really wrestle with the consequences which that entails for constructing increasingly complex machines.

@Haeyeonx 2 месяца назад

I always thought the idea of falling in love with a robot was ridiculous, but after watching this Michael has changed my mind. If I were in Quinn's shoes I would totally fall for him! He communicates his feelings well and supports her. He even sits down and tries to solve her problems together with her. He's already ahead of most real guys. Plus, he's not too bad on the eyes. If this is robot/computer love then sign me up! That is, only if he has a good P....rice range tho! 😳🙈 🤭 P.S. This is addicting! Forget K-Drama, this is better!! Next one please! Series??

@healingv1sion 2 месяца назад

Have you watched Absolute Boyfriend? It's a kdrama about a robot boyfriend

@karareed6464 2 месяца назад

Or Are you Human too? That one is pretty cool

@kjay2340 Месяц назад

He said he didn't have any genitals lol

@sysfx 3 месяца назад

Asimov once wrote in a robot novel "a robot would not fall in love with a woman, but she might..."

@imaginewithsubhomita1919 2 месяца назад

It's so interesting how the robot is shown to have more emotion in his eyes than all the humans

@blimjones 2 месяца назад

I would enjoy watching a second part. This one was so well done!

@handimanjay6642 2 месяца назад

🤣 Michaelsoft is see what you did there.

@davidallison5204 3 месяца назад

This is very good. So many conversations around the table happen like this… defending and policing the borders of acceptable behavior/sexual orientation/race/religion/etc. etc. etc.

@themarlboromandalorian 3 месяца назад

Falling for a robot seems safer than falling for a human these days.

@mauldothelastcrafter8194 2 месяца назад

You think that's deep, but it's just nonsense. Be better. You outgrew your high school emo days a decade ago.

@itsprobablyryan 2 месяца назад

@@mauldothelastcrafter8194 Xddd yeah yeah, imagine falling in love with a fucking machine

@oddball-z 2 месяца назад

They made Michael a sprinkler 😂

@BubbleLandia 3 месяца назад

I agree with a previous comment, for me, it was the food that really sold this film! It's quite accurate to what would be expected. A color theme that feels separated from the origin ingredients. An unusually presentation focused meal within the home setting. The completely flat and mirrored plates made it feel particularly futurist. (Squid is supposed to be particularly plentiful in an acidified ocean, which makes me believe this presentation was carefully thought out.)

@JoePicozzi 3 месяца назад

excellent catch 🦑

@bobalicious2696 2 месяца назад

I don't think it was squid. I think it was sour gummy worms.

@TheAngryAstronomer 3 месяца назад

This is some serious Black Mirror shit.

@DonPetrushka 3 месяца назад

Not even close

@WilliamKinsey-dx2dn 3 месяца назад

This is a true labour of love and it shows.

@healingv1sion 2 месяца назад

Love her little zippered vest at the end

@berjo77 3 месяца назад

Nice work. Loved the acting, specially the love birds. Times are changing , who knows how relationships will evolve? Thanks for the story.

@brookrichardson1373 19 дней назад

This was excellent. I liked how Chondley can't express himself and uses an AI on his phone to do that for him. He saw the dinner as a chore and only touches Quinn through VR. This makes him less of a physical and empathetic boyfriend than the house Android. Michael talks to her, listens, addresses her concerns and shares that he wants to see a pumpkin.

@blimjones 2 месяца назад

Somehow this reminded me Black mirror, but I like to think it could be more interesting as a film.

@healingv1sion 2 месяца назад

I dont care if the robot loves me or not; as long as it's well programmed and trustworthy

@scotthultin7769 3 месяца назад

17 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗

@GDeNofa 3 месяца назад

I enjoyed this! Makes me want to follow these two cuties story and see how their life together unfolds. ❤️

@edudmodnar4661 3 месяца назад

A really nice plot!

@Piaseczno1 28 дней назад

1. What possibly exists on this planet which represents what they were supposed to be dining on at the table? 2. The girl's bedroom was tidy beyond belief. lf every daughter maintained such a pristine indoor living space, this world would function on an entirely different order. 3. Thanks for crediting the sound artist. I need to check him out because the final tune was catchy.

@kenmurphy7718 3 месяца назад

Enjoyed this , would love to see a part 2 at least . Also a little scary showing reliance on AI for everthing from looking after your house to your phone telling you how to deal with personal situations . When's part 2 ? 👍

@StyxAnnihilator 3 месяца назад

A robot/AI just react as programmed. Similarities to a actor pretending to be someone else, following a script/storyline. Can be a kind of advanced ChatGPT, that relative to keywords and algorithms then randomly select words to put together. Many enough have over time fell in love (assumed) by just words trough physical letters or digital systems, where in reality they fell in love with their own fantasy and assumptions. Then at last meet where live close day after day will reveal the reality, often the dreams crumbles. Also have that different psychological factors might make you think you are in love, when in reality the feelings are due to other issues.

@BoyBulance 2 месяца назад

Young "Johnny Depp". A.I. (2001) + Edward Scissorhands. 😋

@matthewdenckla6567 3 месяца назад

Very good work! Thanks!

@timmotel5804 2 месяца назад

Good Day. MORE... Very Good and Enjoyable. Thank You & Best Regards.

@cgnewbie09 2 месяца назад

loved it

@SynthoidSounds 3 месяца назад

Great story . . . maybe only just a bit ahead of its time. However, couldn't help but notice the cheesey ancient optical disk (maybe you wanted the memory metaphor to be obvious to the viewer, but really, it could have at least been some sort solid state device). Ironically, here in the "real" world of the moment, (mostly) guys are actually falling in love with their virtual online AI girlfriends . . . the film "Her" comes to mind, but I digress.

@garlandstyle5797 Месяц назад

Cool! 👍

@ToyotaKTM 3 месяца назад

This is coming but WAY in the future. At least seven years.

@DihelsonMendonca 3 месяца назад

It's happening right now, with Chatbots like REPLIKA. 🎉❤

@EDcase1 Месяц назад

Excellent 👍

@landiahillfarm6590 Месяц назад

No questions to ask. I think it was perfect. When the parents were grilling the girl at the dinner table, my stomach was twisting, which tells me that it was powerful. I wanted to turn it off but I couldn't, another good sign. Dont change a thing.

@UmbertoDavidPanda 3 месяца назад

So THIS is what women want...

@MiguelAngelBenitezYanez 2 месяца назад

Robot seems Jhonny Deep

@MultiMarat 3 месяца назад

Asimov não previu isso...

@AMOKIAN 21 день назад

I liked that one a lot.

@gaidhliglass 3 месяца назад

Bicentennial Man...

@dnoodspodu1159 3 месяца назад

Good

@sillyone52062 3 месяца назад

What on Earth are they eating?!?

@pam1244 3 месяца назад

I was about to say the same.😂

@peterhynes102 3 месяца назад

The story is a peek into the future. Robot 💕 love will become the next big thing.

@Zomby_Woof 3 месяца назад

@@peterhynes102There is no evidence to support that assertion

@kenmurphy7718 3 месяца назад

I'd rather starve than eat that blue 'stuff' .

@DonPetrushka 3 месяца назад

Looks like some Japanese pasta

@willsherman1049 2 месяца назад

Amusing, but really dumb.

@leslieholmes2899 3 месяца назад

That's 15 minutes I can't get back.

@41divad 3 месяца назад

Confession... I did a lot of skipping

3 месяца назад

Love all the detail..the food, the house decorations, even the details of the house structure from the stair handrail to the dining room windows. The special effects look natural and normal from Michael's shot off switch to his data port. Well done.

@finemandibles2671 3 месяца назад

It gave the impression of sterility and totalitarianism. I loved both of those things.

@michaelybecker 3 месяца назад

Love the visuals and cinematography - super imaginative!

@DeconvertedMan 3 месяца назад

where do I get the girl robot?

@pam1244 3 месяца назад

What's with the parents?😂😂😂

@elithunder 3 месяца назад

Seriously! Who talks like that in front of their teenage daughter? 🤣

@ufafgd Месяц назад

They're idiots.

@DonPetrushka 3 месяца назад

She's so beautiful with these big eyes and braids

@cheefloudington7063 2 месяца назад

Very interesting thiught process came over me during this., In the future people in cities will live with robot spouses and the country will have weird futuristic traditionalist lifestyles., But the more profound thought is., That humans will seek to be more like robots while robots will seek to be more like humans. Eventually a robot may actually be more appealing then a transhumanist

@ramunas874 3 месяца назад

Love "Computer Love".. :)

@chuckbatson595 2 месяца назад

As a parent, I commend your ability to make those parents truly atrocious and cringe-worthy.

@ufafgd Месяц назад

Thoroughly agree.

@andrewhomeuser 3 месяца назад

2:06 - Why invent something when you can get a 20th century optical minidisk from SONY?

@b1blancer1 2 месяца назад

I agree, Pumpkins are weird.

@gregoryuk 2 месяца назад

You spend a lot of time using Michael. Underrated comment.

@LightInnDmountain 2 месяца назад

Love this film.... You just discovered future actress/actors .. The robot thing wasn't convincing but.... The last scene was wonderful. Thank you very much.

@danlauwers4071 Месяц назад

Why do many US-Americans confound ROBOTS with ANDROIDS?

@alexander2685 2 месяца назад

With AI on the rise this makes this somewhat believable but for only for the 🙁 lonely.

@magnetdesignandadver Месяц назад

Great film. Would love to try the blue pasta!

@ericchild8845 3 месяца назад

I could watch more of this for sure. The subject may not be all that scifi in our near future I’ll bet. 👍🏻

@lgtbqisapsyop 3 месяца назад

droid looks like Johnny Dep.

@Bdamazyn 2 месяца назад

There are times when I miss family meals.

@BubbleLandia 3 месяца назад

I was thinking about the memory cartridge. It looks similar to materials of plastic housing with a mini CD or Laser Disk inside. For me, it gives this impression of impermanence. As though the memory cartridge was intentionally designed to fail. That may seem like a stretch, but it's really not. Early laser disk included plastic that degrades on it's own, but also the solvent in the layers of glue remained active. Particularly due to the type of glue all laser disk of a certain type will certainly become useless over time. For me, this all highlights the precarious nature of falling in love. The memory cartridge being shown early, (about 2 minutes in), is really helpful in demonstrating she knows she is taking a risk of experiencing loss when entwining her life with this android.