1987. San Francisco. A robot war in a taxi lot. Art or anarchy? You decide.
A robot performance by Survival Research Laboratories, staged in a Yellow Cab parking lot in San Francisco. Recorded on January 30th, 1987.
Practical Effects
Actual self-destructing robots built by hand in a warehouse
Direction
Guerrilla filmmaking in a real parking lot with zero permits
Production
Survival Research Labs: the godfathers of machine performance art
Director
Jonathan Reiss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Survival Research Labs pioneered the 'machine art' movement, directly influencing Burning Man's aesthetic and BattleBots decades later.
Mark Pauline lost two fingers to a rocket-powered machine in 1982 and kept performing with mechanical prosthetics he built himself.
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