Robots on Screen - Book Launch and Talk
Screen, Sunday 20 Sep 2026, 19:30
- ends at 20:30
Cinema is obsessed with cyborgs, androids and replicants that mirror our deepest hopes and fears.
Book launch and illustrated talk with Piers Bizony, author of Robots on Screen. Since 1927, when Fritz Lang's coldly graceful ‘False Maria’ first mesmerised audiences in Metropolis, cinema has been obsessed with mechanical mirrors of humanity: cyborgs, androids, replicants, and robots that look and think almost like us.
For more than a century, filmmakers have used these creations to explore our deepest hopes and fears about technology, identity, and what it means to be human. Now, real-world robots and artificial intelligences are reshaping all of society. Join award-winning science writer Piers Bizony on a lavishly illustrated whirlwind tour of a century-old fictional movie genre that’s now become fact.
Part of our Sci-Fi Weekender in partnership with Hastings Book Festival.
Restricted Performance
Priority booking: Members and friends priority booking only until until Thursday 20 August 2026 at 19:00, on general sale thereafter.