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