Artist’s NSFW Creations Envision Robot Sex
By Dylan Tweney
While making an animated war movie featuring armies of battling robots, filmmaker Michael Sullivan began to get a new idea: His film should feature non-stop robot sex.
The Sex Life of Robots centers around a robot baby and his mother scanning their home computer for porn. It shows — in graphic detail — the scenes of robot coitus that pop up on their screen. “It’s supposed to be like a silent robot porno movie from another planet,” Sullivan explains. Despite the subject matter, Sullivan’s creation exhibits a high degree of artistry. His eye for detail gives his movies a gritty, industrialized atmosphere, as you can see in this preview Sex Life of Robots. Warning: the video is not safe for work (NSFW).
His eclectic background includes making rubber roach suits for a made-for-TV horror movie (canceled by NBC), building puppets and sets for indie films, photographing then-budding rock star Deborah Harry for underground mags in the 1970s and art-directing high-concept porno movies. Some of Sullivan’s robot sex dioramas will be on display through spring 2008 at Manhattan’s Museum of Sex. The images in this gallery are, needless to say, NSFW either.
Left: Robot babies gather around their caretaker in Sullivan’s vision of a robot nursery. The “goddess” face is taken from a mold of Deborah Harry’s face, which Sullivan made in 1976. “I contacted Debbie by e-mail to get her permission to use her image in the movies, and she said yeah,” Sullivan says.
Photos: Michael Sullivan
“This is another instance of robot porn on the web,” Sullivan says of this scene from his film. “These are sexual robots to instruct the kids.”
Like all of his robots, these models have articulated joints and eyeballs that can be rotated. It takes Sullivan a “couple of days” to build each robot, he says. After he finishes the sculpting process, he finishes up with a layer of paint (black enamel or primer), followed by red oxide or orange washes, and a light buffing adds highlights.
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