Cyborg Crush

What alternative possibilities for attraction and pleasure emerge in the glitches of capitalist, post-digital age environments?

Cyborg Crush is a hand-drawn, cyberfeminist animation that extrapolates from the “dangerous possibilities” Donna Haraway alludes to in "A Cyborg Manifesto".

Set in the not-so-distant future, it is a story of how images circulate from the workplace, to the screen, to the viewer, maintaining an economy of consumption. The worker of this economy and the protagonist of this story is the cyborg. Part-human, part-machine, their hybridity allows them to know man’s desires and how to work without rest – the workers of the future are consistently productive.

Using Haraway’s definition of the cyborg, “a creature in a post-gender world”, the film critiques constructions of images, constructed notions of what it means to be a woman, and the unexpected encounters that arise from system errors.