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Video: "I'm Here," Spike Jonze's New Robot Romance, Is Here

When Spike Jonze poses those burning questions about robots - can they dream? do they have feelings? - he isn't exactly entering "Ray Kurzweil territory":http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/7/14/singularity-of-ray-kurzweil. He's imagining what might happen...

When Spike Jonze poses those burning questions about robots – can they dream? do they have feelings? – he isn’t exactly entering Ray Kurzweil territory. He’s imagining what might happen when a pair of lonely robots played by Andrew Garfield and Sienna Gillory get their wires tangled up in the miasma of a near-future Los Angeles. Think of it as the hardware analogue to the playful but fragile emotional world of the Wild Things.

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More old-fashioned: the 30-minute Sundance-debuted, Absolut-sponsored film isn’t streaming in the traditional way: it’s showing every couple of hours at imheremovie.com. Or you can just watch it above.