You will find more depth and humor here than in most of today's big budget sci-fi films. The writing and directing are solid throughout. The actors also give fine performances, particularly the tremendously talented Wai Ching Ho and Sab Shimono.The first of the shorts, "My Robot Baby," sets the thoughtful and quirky tone for the rest of the film. "Robot Fixer" (my favorite of the four) and "Clay" ground the film emotionally. The third short, "Machine Love," provides a welcome injection of humor while also revealing many insights about human nature.Director and writer Greg Pak has shown considerable skill in crafting these four shorts. I look forward to his future films.

As a young teen, I was lifted to delight by Isaac Asimov and his robot stories. The late Isaac Asimov was president of The Humanist Society, succeeded by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. As a scientist and a humanist, Asimov used the frame of the robot story to illuminate human nature.Greg Pak goes a long way towards filling the Olympian shoes left by Asimov. In a very gentle, but textured, way, he uses "far-fetched" premises to examine subtle emotional events that are so close to us that they normally escape our notice.For a young film-maker, Pak has a firm grasp of sketching the subtlety of human feelings with an economy of style and an ability to direct actors to express them. I anxiously await his further artistic endeavors.

This is a lovely movie -- thoughtful, thought-provoking. It's a quiet meditation of the stages of life -- from birth to death -- and the love we find or hope to find along the way. Using Robots, the movie shows us the basic need for love and surprising, prescient takes on our humanity. Pak presents a delightful view of the future that echoes the best science fiction -- a realistic extension of the present that may be a bit surprising, but also recognizable, and with both good and bad developments. A feeling of hope underneath the pensive melancholy of the film, its abrupt end leaves us with a question and desire to change our own futures, to guard our sense of humanity, and to find love in our all-too-brief lives.

You will be thoroughly confused if you get hooked in on the one-liner that promotes Robot Stories; Love, Death & Robots or something to that effect. It confused the hell out of me when 3 friends and I went out of our way to attend the screening. Robot Stories is set around four stories all shot on digital video. The stories are bland, campy and utterly boring. Any attempt at an artistic or original plots or vision is null and void with this film and director. It seems that Robot Stories is unfortunately another product of a $60,000.00 a year film school education. I'd also like to add that the VC film festival made it very difficult for people to purchase tickets during the last few days before the film. It's very annoying to drive long distances and not know if the show is going to be sold out.