Aliens in Star Trek and other SF films

Many science fiction films feature aliens. Both familiar or alien biological life forms and androids, i.e. robots with artificial intelligence. From a pragmatic point of view, the aliens are often portrayed as human-like because the actors are human. With today’s possibilities, however, aliens can also be animated, which has led to us seeing more and more alien-like bodies in new science fiction films. This applies equally to biological and artificial life forms, although the latter are sometimes depicted as disembodied.

In his lecture, Hubert Zitt will look at various forms of life and bodies in science fiction films. Their characteristics and abilities such as anatomy, locomotion, communication, intelligence, consciousness and reproduction will be discussed in an entertaining and humorous way using film clips. In the case of artificial life forms, the speaker will go one step further and venture a comparison between science fiction and current developments in our real world.