/slice : trailer

/slice is an experimental film that delves into the entangled relationships between humans and machines, revealing how robots — designed as sophisticated tools— become vessels for our hopes, fears, and projections.

The film investigates how dance and embodied movement shape the very code, metadata, and digital archives we increasingly rely on. Set against the stark and evolving landscape of robotics research, /slice becomes a poetic meditation on what we risk losing—and what we might uncover—when we try to encode humanity into our machines.

/slice was co-created by dance-technology artists Jessica Rajko and Varsha Iyengar who composed and performed the film alongside robotics researchers from Brown University's Humans to Robots Laboratory. The film experiments with practice-based methods for weaving transdisciplinary knowledge through collective artmaking and performance.

Music Composer

Tony Obr

Sound Designer and Foley Artist

Joshua Carro

Varsha Iyengar, Jessica Rajko

Choreographers

Varsha Iyengar, Jessica Rajko with Purvi Kaul, Elijah Lennington and Mary Renko

Performers

Lawrence Fung, Ivy He, Varsha Iyengar, Kyle Kavully, Elijah Lennington, Max Merlin, Jessica Rajko, Jose Toribio

Director of Photography and Editing

Lawrence Fung

Robot Choreographer

Ivy He, Varsha Iyengar, Max Merlin, Jessica Rajko

Voice Over Artist

Quinn Jacob

Acknowledgements

Concept and Direction