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Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot (2025)
Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot (2025)
Overview
Documentary directed by Mark C. Bonn and Christine Seibert Bonn, chronicling the life of mime and movement artist Robert Shields. Featuring Shields and interviewees including Joanna Cassidy, Tony Orlando, and Mac Davis, it follows his journey from San Francisco street performances in the 1970s to influencing pop, lock, and hip-hop dance styles.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
9.1
Overview
Documentary directed by Mark C. Bonn and Christine Seibert Bonn, chronicling the life of mime and movement artist Robert Shields. Featuring Shields and interviewees including Joanna Cassidy, Tony Orlando, and Mac Davis, it follows his journey from San Francisco street performances in the 1970s to influencing pop, lock, and hip-hop dance styles.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The documentary explores the career of mime artist Robert Shields, emphasizing his creation of the robot dance, television success, and influence on subsequent performers through a focus on creativity and perseverance. The absence of ideological commentary in the narrative of artistic achievement anchors the neutral assessment.
Visible diversity appears through interviewees like a Black hip-hop dancer acknowledging the white male subject's influence on broader dance culture. The story affirms the subject's traditional identity without negative portrayal or explicit social critique.
Secondary
The documentary depicts Robert Shields' marriage to performance partner Lorene Yarnell as a wholesome, destined union central to their joint success, with their act portrayed as family-friendly entertainment. However, it acknowledges divorces and personal losses without endorsing or critiquing specific family structures or norms, resulting in a neutral portrayal overall.
The documentary examines mime artist Robert Shields' professional journey and creative legacy, featuring no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
The documentary examines mime artist Robert Shields' journey from street performer to television star through his robot mime innovations, containing no transsexual characters or themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is a documentary about the life of male puppeteer and performer Robert Shields, featuring interviews and archival footage without any gender-swapped portrayals of historical or canonical figures.
This documentary features real individuals, including subject Robert Shields, appearing as themselves through interviews and archival footage, with no dramatized portrayals by actors that could involve race swaps.
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