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....
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• 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.....
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