NFB Collection
Gabe's Armie
198612 min 35 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Bernard Dansereau
Production: Sharon McGowanAndy Thomson
Script: Peggy Thompson
An NFB DramaLab '85 production, with the participation of Telefilm Canada.
Armie is a robot designed to do office maintenance. Gabe is the young cleaning woman who loses her job to the machine. She is also someone who spends every free minute repairing discarded electronic equipment. When she sees that Armie is malfunctioning, Gabe can't resist fixing it. Her former employer is unimpressed. He tells Gabe that he's got plenty more robots and doesn't need her or Armie. He soon finds that he has reason to regret his words.
Subject categories
- Work and Labour Relations > Automation and Technological Change
- Women > Working Life
Credits
- director
- Bernard Dansereau
- producer
- Sharon McGowan
- executive producer
- Andy Thomson
- script
- Peggy Thompson
- photography
- Andy Kitzanuk
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- Steven Kellar
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- sound mix
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Shelley Craig
- music
- André Lambert
- cast
- Susan Bain
- Brian Dooley
- Ron Lea