Ok, I’m in love with this short film already. And I haven’t seen it yet. It premiered last night as part of the first-ever Opening Night’s Shorts Program at the Sundance Film Festival. But for those of us not at the festival, it’ll premier on www.imheremovie.com in March.

What I’m loving the most is the character design, where the robots look like bots that product designers in the 80s would have built, with beige plastic and think grey rubbery cords. Love it.

The site is also pretty beautifully designed, keeping with the films visual feel, and getting the nice sounds of clicking relays as it generates bits of on screen text.

From the film’s site:

I’m Here is a 30-minute love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. The film is written and directed by Spike Jonze. Andrew Garfield and Sienna Guillory are in the lead roles, and the soundtrack includes original music by Sam Spiegel and original songs by L.A.-based art musician Aska Matsumiya and other emerging musicians. I’m Here is released on this website in March.

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The film is a collaboration with ABSOLUT VODKA, and the partnership acknowledges the brand’s position as a pioneering and culture-shaping brand. Come back soon for more information about the film.

I know plenty of people who would be bothered by this sort of brand based patronage, but I love it because really, were it not for the brand support, no way would this film be seeing a world wide web distribution, and the vast majority of us would never see it. (Let alone that the film likely wouldn’t have been made. Someone has to pay for the arts.)

Watch the trailer and fall in love along with me:

[Via shape+colour]