# Robert Zemeckis **Domain:** Cinema / Technology / Memory **Doc Type:** Director Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Contact (1997)]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Receiving Theater]] --- ## Definition Robert Zemeckis is an American filmmaker whose work frequently examines technology, mediated experience and altered temporal or social reality. ## Corpus Context [[Contact (1997)]] is his central contribution to this cluster, dramatizing an event received through a machine but resistant to public verification. ## Relationships [[Contact (1997)]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Receiving Theater]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]