Join us Sunday October 20 for a screening of Time of the Robots at the TriCities International Fantastic Film Festival in the high-tech mecca of Richland, WA!
Click here for exact times and places. And in the meantime, to whet your appetite, you might just want to dig this clip from the film. It's entitled: Marta escapes from the Phantom Planet
Time of the Robots - clip 2- Marta escapes from the Phantom Planet from Erik Hammen on Vimeo.
a film by Erik Hammen
Monday, October 7, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Columbus Dispatch profiles Hammen and Time of the Robots
Nice little mention of the Time of the Robots story in today's Columbus Dispatch, getting ready for the Sci-Fi Marathon this weekend!!
Here's the text:
Sci-fi fans to stay up all night at Drexel for their annual fix....
....
• Time of the Robots (2012) is a mash-up of public domain silent- and sci-fi flicks by Seattle filmmaker Eric Hammen.
“I have a huge soft spot for old sci-fi,” said Hammen, 45. “When DVD started to explode onto the scene, there were so many of these old space movies and silent movies that became available. I tried to explain to buddies how great they were. .?.?. They don’t get the respect they should.”
Hammen came by his love for sci-fi as a child, staying up on school nights to watch late screenings of The Twilight Zone and Flash Gordon.
“By the time that was done,” he said, “my brain would be totally fried.”
Peep Show, an unauthorized 1965 film about Frank Sinatra that producer J.X. Williams assembled from clips and snippets of film, piqued Hammen’s interest.
“It seemed like such an interesting story, putting together this freaky film out of other films,” Hammen said. “I just love the audacity this guy had, and I see Robots as being an audacious movie as well.”
Married with two children, Hammen, a content producer and video editor, thought Robots would take about six months to complete, working on it in his spare time.
Instead, it took six years of writing, sorting through mountains of public-domain footage and creating title cards to finish the film.
Hammen, who played in a high-school punk-rock band, also wrote the soundtrack.
Other movies on the schedule include:
• Dr. Cyclops (1940): Albert Dekker stars as a mad scientist who miniaturizes those who threaten his work.....
Here's the text:
Sci-fi fans to stay up all night at Drexel for their annual fix....
....
• Time of the Robots (2012) is a mash-up of public domain silent- and sci-fi flicks by Seattle filmmaker Eric Hammen.
“I have a huge soft spot for old sci-fi,” said Hammen, 45. “When DVD started to explode onto the scene, there were so many of these old space movies and silent movies that became available. I tried to explain to buddies how great they were. .?.?. They don’t get the respect they should.”
Hammen came by his love for sci-fi as a child, staying up on school nights to watch late screenings of The Twilight Zone and Flash Gordon.
“By the time that was done,” he said, “my brain would be totally fried.”
Peep Show, an unauthorized 1965 film about Frank Sinatra that producer J.X. Williams assembled from clips and snippets of film, piqued Hammen’s interest.
“It seemed like such an interesting story, putting together this freaky film out of other films,” Hammen said. “I just love the audacity this guy had, and I see Robots as being an audacious movie as well.”
Married with two children, Hammen, a content producer and video editor, thought Robots would take about six months to complete, working on it in his spare time.
Instead, it took six years of writing, sorting through mountains of public-domain footage and creating title cards to finish the film.
Hammen, who played in a high-school punk-rock band, also wrote the soundtrack.
Other movies on the schedule include:
• Dr. Cyclops (1940): Albert Dekker stars as a mad scientist who miniaturizes those who threaten his work.....
Monday, April 22, 2013
SciFi Marathon - Columbus, OH May 4-5!
Time of the Robots is pleased to announce we will join 2001, a Space Odyssey; Attack of the Mole People, The Monolith Monsters, Inception, and more at the annual SciFi Marathon in Columbus! More details to come.
Round on the end and hi in the middle! O-HI-O!
http://www.scifimarathon.com/films.html
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Time of the Robots in TriCities, October 2013!
Time of the Robots will be screening at the TriCities International Fantastic Film Festival in 2013. The festival runs through October.
Times and dates to come!!
August 2013 screening for Time of the Robots
The Festival runs Aug 29 - Sept 2 -- more details to come!
Monday, January 21, 2013
Two new screenings for Time of the Robots!
More information as it comes!
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