LUKAS VON BERG was born in northwest Germany in 1990 and was an altar boy in his hometown community „St. George“ for eleven years. He studied design with a main focus on illustration in Muenster and continued studying animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2015. In 2019 he took part in the 6-week Lucerne Masterclass for Advanced Animation (LuMAA) in Switzerland. Since his graduation from Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg in 2021, he works in the German animation industry.

Taking care of someone, giving guidance to a grieving soul or just being there when someone dies are very human things to do. Whether we just stay with someone in silence or instinctively know how to react in these extreme situations, our intuition and empathy are the incredible tools we have.

But in modern healthcare systems, everything that can’t be measured is considered worthless. Spending the right amount of time with someone is not predictable and is a very personal thing. But still, management often tries to put it in protocols. What if these protocols aren’t just executed by humans, who can at least empathize, but by a robot? Even worse, a religious robot.

Religions are directed at the soul directly - something a machine lacks. But religions also have their protocols and rituals. Some believers also praise them above humanity and even consider the human side as something evil. Put them together and you get the St. Android - an advanced bad idea.

In this film, we want to show the value of human empathy by creating a situation where it is needed but missing completely.