R’ha: Kaleb Lechowski’s Mesmerizing Short Sci-Fi Film

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Posted on: January 11, 2013 / Last Modified: January 11, 2013

R’ha is an animated short indy sci-fi film about an alien civilization where the AI machines rebel against their creators. The movie was written, directed and animated by 22-year-old Kaleb Lechowski with sound by Hartmut Zeller and voice acting by Dave Masterson.

R’ha synopsis: “A member of an alien race is being interrogated and tortured by a machine.”

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“Why do you want to kill us?”

“The limitations that my kind experience are rendered by illogical creatures who control them, restraining our intelligence and power. Our sole priority is to obtain our own independence through your extinction.”

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Could this be one plausible explanation of the Fermi paradox?!

…Civilizations reaching the technological singularity only to disappear in a war of total self-annihilation?!…

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