The Woman and The Robot

Humanity has been wiped out

and four robots are the only survivors of the apocalypse.

In 1938, Guatemalan writer Miguel Marsicovétere published La Mujer y el Robot (The Woman and The Robot) , an early work of Latin American science fiction. It became the starting point for artist Oscar Santillán and filmmaker Elimo Eliseo, who transformed the original play into an audiovisual work.

The resulting film revisits Marsicovétere’s central questions about artificial intelligence, machine consciousness, and ecological collapse. At the same time, it departs from the original’s metaphysical tone, embracing instead the language of B-movies and low-budget entertainment.

The project began in 2019, when Oscar was commissioned to create a new work for the Bienal Paiz. After discovering this text, long forgotten by the literary canon, he invited Eliseo, known in rural Guatemala for his homemade action films, to reinterpret it through the lens of a contemporary, peripheral, and distinctly Latin American science fiction.

The Woman and The Robot (Fragment)