Electric sheep? No, androids actually dream of art...
After spectacularly crashing out of her day job, Maggie , a low-cost, Tenzing model mountain droid, sets out on a journey back to her roots. In her AI, despite extended database and somewhat limited vocabulary, she was built to climb. Guided by Blue, a rather playful Morpho butterfly in a surreal landscape, Maggie discovers for herself some of the pillars of 20th century modern art and architecture, along with the pitfalls of the butterfly effect. Will she find her true calling and become a full-time modern art lover along the way? After all, it’s a real story, based on Maggie’s own hard drive data.
In the spirit of absurdist fiction, CLiMB also pays homage to classic Looney Tunes themes and characters, along with lots of music and a comic book graphic style.
The film had its EU premiere at Genova's Mostra Internazionale del Cinema in October 2023 and opened the Malibu International Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America Theater Complex in Los Angles with a Best Animated Short nomination in June 2023.
