Sunday Short Theatre – “System Error” (2020)

Life can be  a lonely existence for everyone. Some of us have partners, families others friends. Not everyone finds it easy to make friends like George in this week’s Sunday Short Theatre choice, “System Error”.

Directed by Australian filmmaker Matt Vesely who seems to be a jack of all trades as he produces, writes and is even a comedian!  His latest film dives into sci-fi genre, we meet George works at a convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend. But George is a robotic service unit, and robotic service units do not have friends. Not yet, anyway.

Every day, George works his job at a dingy convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend – but George is also an immobile robotic service unit, and immobile robotic service units do not have friends. When human customer Sid tries to tell George a joke, the simple robot is baffled. So, he sets about editing his code to learn how to laugh. Meddling with one’s code, however, can have unexpected consequences – consequences George is going to need Sid’s help to deal with. A film about friendship, being okay with being broken, and the inner life of Unit CB-94/X0172AB3982-2. Please do not tamper with the store attendant. Have a nice day.

The film is only 13 minutes long and stars David Quirk and Nick Nemeroff.

Source: Dust