'We Are All Cylons' Explores the Transformative Power of Battlestar Galactica

How deeply entrenched in pop culture are the notions posited in Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica that man and machine are destined to become indistinguishable?

Exhibit A: Deathlok and Fantomex share a moment in Uncanny X-Force #8, by Rick Remender and Billy Tan.

Of course, characters like Deathlok are an example of the notion that the ideas which drive BSG aren't necessarily new, but tap into primal hopes and fears that man has in fact been wrestling with for a long time, periodically surfacing in our literary creations like Frankenstein.

But I digress.

Exhibit B: Ilana Rein's documentary We Are All Cylons, the documentary which premiered this evening (Monday April 25) at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival.

From Wired:

The identity question even extended to the filmmaker, who spent only about $8,000 to produce We Are All Cylons. Rein claims that during the editing process she began to think the way she believed a Cylon would. This influenced her musical selections and led her to do things like use TV static to make scene transitions.

“I allowed the possibility that [BSG writer and executive producer Moore] created a show that sent a signal — quite like the “All Along the Watchtower” riff that activated the sleeper Cylons — to people like me in order to ’spread the message’ that we are in fact all Cylons,” Rein said. “So part of my creative process was to begin thinking of myself as part Cylon. A lot of the edits I made were what I imagined a computer would do.”

Check out the trailer above, and Rein's website has info on where you can catch the full-length feature, which is currently scheduled to show in New York,  Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI.