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Replica
Martin Koch, Violet Suk


Replica takes place in a world under the earth, a world of metal, a world populated with the most diverse characters roaming this metal world. One of the main characters is a data-thief, who is able to make use of "shapeshifting". This makes it possible for the figure to change his/her own genetic code and thus assume very diverse forms. The body becomes pliable, the possibilities of genetic links unbounded. This data-thief invades this world of metal in order to steal genetic codes stored in a gene laboratory there. The security system of the gene laboratory recognizes the data-thief and one of the armed fighting drones attempts to stop the data-thief, who has changed forms in order to outwit the security system. The data-thief suddenly finds him/herself trapped in the gene laboratory, where the thief's own genetic code has been used to create exact copies of him/her.The data-thief is not only confronted with the scientists and the security system of the laboratory, but suddenly also with clones of him/herself...

The film Replica is a section, a sequence from a work currently in progress, which will have a planned length of 30 minutes.The concept and contents of the work are based on change.The character's ability to assume the most various forms provides an opportunity to play with corporeality and the different resultant characters.The film itself is similarto a computer game, in that it is divided into "levels" that increase in the degree of difficulty with respect to the tasks that the character must accomplish in the course of the story. On these different levels, the data-thief roams throughout the subterranean world and its architecture.