Zac & Mac’s “Similo” gives us a glimpse into a future that offers robots as romantic partners. Though these robots look the part, this shorts demonstrates that they can’t play it. This is what a woman discovers when she replaces her diseased lover with a perfectly compliant version of him. As desperate as she is to love this perfect vision of him, their relationship still falls apart without his human passion and flaws.
Ariel Martin’s “iMom” takes our culture’s habit of “other-mothering” and scrutinizes it with terrifying accuracy. Artificial intelligence has allowed parents of the future to hand the responsibility of caring for children to robot maids called “iMoms.”
Does happiness lie in the past or in the future? Mark Slutsky's sci-fi short film “The Decelerators” explores what happens when a group of ambitious friends create a machine that allows its user to linger forever in a moment of happiness. As they each take turns removing themselves from the stream of time, they quickly realize that without each other they will run out of opportunities to use the machine.
It’s us or them. This is the dark conclusion that humans have reached in David Karlak’s short film “Rise.” In the near future, robots have developed advanced emotional sophistication and their human creators don’t like it. What should have been a simple and violent extermination of artificial life proves harder when a captured robot demonstrates that the human aggressors are biting off more than they can chew. Our team loves the short for its impressive visual effects and character driven story. The late Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin delivers an especially strong performance that gets viewers to sympathize with the plight of a creation that is no longer wanted by its creator.
David Karlak’s “The Candidate” explores what happens when the dark thoughts in the back of our minds are given a voice and worse — power. The story follows a secret society whose purpose is to find people who don’t deserve to live and to kill them with their thoughts. The tension between the pessimistic protagonist and the liaison of the secret society comes to a head in a riveting twist. The Candidate’s dark narrative is a dead ringer for “American Psycho” and would makes its predecessor proud. 20 minutes is longer than most short films run for but our team promises that after the short’s thrilling opening scene, you won’t be able to stop watching.
Capitalism and justice are ugly partners. That’s the thesis of K-Michel Parandi’s “From the Future with Love.” This bleak short film explores a world where police now work for privatized agencies that offer different levels of protection depending on how much you pay. It quickly becomes evident that this is a turn for the future’s worst as these agencies resemble gangsters, each with their own turf and “services.” After mistreating a civilian with low coverage, three cops become the victim of the system they perpetuate. Our team calls this short required viewing for its dramatic and prescient message about the state of our justice system.
A life sentence regardless of the crime. A destitute Earth stricken with hunger and crime. A planet where the smallest of infractions can result in the gravest of consequences. Tyson Johnston’s LUNAR makes the last frontier a one-way ticket to a hellish nightmare for Earth’s convicts they can no longer support. Taken from their homes to the Lunar penitentiary, these men with a penchant for breaking the law find themselves on a moon that thrives of the absence of justice. The new wild west, where there is no law and their fate is determined at the hands of a government where there’s no one to account for their actions. But one man may have found a way for their voices to be heard. A way to escape and tell the people of his home planet of the atrocities they’ve been subject to. A way to seek justice for the harrowing sentence he’s been dealt and if justice can’t be found, revenge.
Concept art, wire frame animations and composites.
R’Ha, directed by Kaleb Lechowski, is a fight for survival in a solar system where no one can be trusted. A civil war started by subversives they could have never seen coming. A group of fighters, relentless in their quest to protect their planets will do everything in their power to emerge the victorious underdog against an enemy that appears to always be two steps ahead. This short leaves you on edge as the future of the guardians of space grows dim in the afterburner of the spacecraft that may lead their enemy right to them. The subtle ending shows a scene so seemingly benign it’ll hit you even harder when you realize the implications of it.
A battle of massive machines. Bullets ricocheting, metal mashing, glass shattering, buildings crumbling. Stuck right in the middle of chaos with no explanation. But no explanation is needed. Liam Murphy’s No-A communicates everything we need to know about its main characters through wordless action. The end result is an empathetic and poignant short fueled by a robot’s love for its creator and its willingness to pay the ultimate sacrifice to save this girl from harm. An extraordinary display of compelling characters who grow on you in monumental strides in the span of a few minutes. No-A is a fragmented story filled with uncertainty, but there is one thing you can be sure of: you will finish this short wanting more.
Francesco Calabrese’s short “I Killer” explores what happens when you pick the wrong crowd to fit in with. The short follows two young boys as they follow through with a terrifying gang initiation process. Without giving away the ending one boy gets in at the other’s expense. You’ll have to see for yourself how this heart wrenching short ends.
After finding himself in a wrecked taxi, Evan tries to figure out the pieces of the puzzle, while dealing with a dangerous threat, in a seemingly deserted city.
Francesco Calabrese’s “Lovely Monster” narrates the unique challenges faced by a girl with an incurable and frightening condition. The simple short follows a documentary crew as they interview various figures in her life: classmates, her mother, a bully, and of course herself. No one should be alone but you might change your mind after watching where the story goes.
That’s the starting premise of Collin Davis’s “Telescope.” This thoughtfully crafted short film follows a brave cosmic archaeologist as he travels back in time to capture photos of the once vibrant planet. As he travels further back in time, we learn that the galaxy and time he came from has a lifeless Earth with no organic life left on its surface. It’s hard to finish the film without feeling nostalgia for an Earth that is being taken for granted.
9 Minutes is a tense science fiction thriller set in the middle of the desert. As this darkly atmospheric short progresses, this man and his dog are paid by a visit by unwelcome extraterrestrial guests. The encounter is sudden and terrifying. When the man comes to, he is unnerved by the footage captured by his phone. The man tries to go about his business and move on but there is something irreversibly wrong with his dog after the encounter.
Paris, 2020. A beautiful couple, a city over-saturated by holograms and digital stream. A polaroid camera. Tomorrow will never be the same.
"Lost Memories 2.0" is the follow-up to filmmaker Francois Ferracci's other short "Lost Memories". The "Cloud" collapsed and destroyed all the digital data in the world a few years ago in an electromagnetic storm. Since that moment, the world has been slowly recovering. A.D. is now A.C. ("After Cloud.") In an ultra-connected world filled with hyper connected people, how do you find your one true love, who remains off-line ?
A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.
When colleagues Laura and Grady have an impulsive fling on a business trip, they decide it might be for the best if it all just never happened. “Never Happened is set in a world much like our own, just a little different. A world in which we can manipulate our thoughts, our lives, just a little more than we already can. The technology in the film is fictional, but in many ways, I think we have always applied the same principles to the way we view our lives, the way we selectively tell ourselves our own stories.” – Mark Slutsky, Director
Strings is an action short about a captive woman who is kept sedated for a very good reason. She is extremely valuable, and the battle to free her will determine her fate.
A film based in a world where the singularity is near through the development of ANA, a management software, used to increase productivity. ANA follows the sole worker in a futuristic car manufacturing plant, as ANA tricks him into given her total control.
A stunning experiment with setting and creature effects.
A group of kids goofing off begin disappearing one by one from a locked room.
This intense short will have you wondering how much power you should give the technology you use to help run your life.
Keiichi Matsuda's "Hyper-Reality" takes a look at what life could be like for people in a world altered by augmented reality. Does the technology help your life or trap you in a lonely virtual prison full of clutter and confusion?
In the middle of nowhere in a small motel a mysterious trio’s arrival comes with strange electrical phenomena. What are they waiting for, and what will the suspicious motel owner do about it?
2nd place winner at the 2013 Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge. Written, shot, edited and scored in less than 48 hours.The filmmakers were given a random title ("FALLING APART"), a random line of dialogue ("Fame is fleeting, baby, but legends live forever") and a random prop/action (A mug of steaming liquid - a character sniffs the hot liquid and pours it away), and then had 48 hours to write a script with those elements, shoot it, edit it, grade it, score it, sound design it, export it and deliver it in person at the London BFI. A stunning result that DUST is honored to present here.
In a sparse post-apocalyptic world a man's grief leads him on a path towards danger and disappointment. The world is dead. Its only inhabitants are loners and wanderers, people whose purposes in life remain unfulfilled. They linger on in an empty and bleak world. Some embrace the anarchy, while others continue to seek resolution and meaning. The Man is one of these. His search is for his family, a wife and son he lost so long ago that he no longer remembers the circumstances of their disappearance. All he knows is that he must find them, no matter the cost. It is the sole reason for his survival. When he comes upon a weird carnival of wandering strangers, he stops looking only for a place to rest and continue on his way. But then the strangers put on a show for their new guest, and the Man sees someone very familiar… Has he finally found what he seeks? Or is he so accustomed to self-deception that he can no longer recognize the face of the woman he once loved?
In a diverse eco-system of mollusc like creatures, a late devoted scientist of these life forms has passed his life’s work on to his daughter, along with his most prized discovery. ‘The Fisherman’ is an animated story set in a neo-tokyo cityscape where electricity is a source of life for a diverse eco-system of mollusc like creatures. A late devoted scientist of these life forms has passed his life’s work on to his daughter, along with one part of his most prized catch. The other part, a mystical electric fish, has eluded him his entire life. An opportune discovery of this rare creature by a human inhabitant instigates an unusual mating ceremony, spawning a surge of life that traverses the gap between this life and the next. "The Fisherman" By Luke Saunders.
In a future where sex kills and interaction between men and women is strictly regulated what will people risk to feel the pleasure of real intimate human contact? "Urbance" by Joel dos Reis Viegas & Sebastien Larroude have created a dystopian world where a disease has caused sex to be fatal. Can people really deny their urges? This animated short is a pilot that was the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Four soldiers enter a building filled with terrifying creatures to fix faulty equipment, but will any of them make it out alive? "State Zero" by Andrée Wallin Knowing that the horror exists doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
An astronaut survives falling to an unknown planet after a nearly fatal crash but he's not the only one there. Is he in some sort of crazy halucination or did he really awaken next to his own dead body? ("Grounded" by Kevin Margo)
As a spiritual war is brewing one woman must fight to save her sister's soul. ("The Gate" by Kellie Madison)
If time travel became possible and you could go back to leave yourself a message, what would that message be?
Is there a scientific path to god? Two film students set out to document their attempt to use science to communicate with god. Have their experiments made them crazy or have they truly found the answer? ("The Brain Hack" by Joseph White)
Some fears are too close to home. A young girl must find the strength to face the demon that haunts her. ("Blood Ties" by Simon Pannetrat, Marion Louw, Thomas Ricquier, and Sophie Kavouridis)
How much should we let technology control? Attack drones stop listening to commands and begin targeting all humans. ("IRIS" by Hasraf 'Haz' Dulull)
All progress has a price. A pioneering mind transfer procedure offers a quadriplegic soldier the chance of a new life... but at a terrible cost. Starring Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), Joseph Mawle (Benjen Stark in Game of Thrones) and Ana Ularu (the Wicked Witch of the West in the upcoming Emerald City). ("Trial" by The Brothers Lynch (David and Keith))
Miles of separation cannot break their bond. Lovers face their unexpected separation.
If you could move through any solid object, what would you do? An office drone (Napoleon Ryan) finds a mysterious piece of paper that allows him to pass through solid objects, so he takes advantage of this new power.
Facing global resource depletion, mankind sends out Space Rovers to find potentially inhabitable planets. ("Planet Unknown" by Shawn Wang)
In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must battle a dangerous enemy to rescue the US President. ("Singularity" by Samuel Jorgensen)
*WARNING - flashing lights may cause problems for people with epilepsy Upon entering an omniscient technological device known as “The Chamber,” a man is presented with multiple projections of himself - from his past memories, to his own digital avatars, and beyond.. The fires of our past and present burn within each of us, casting a glow upon the many facets of ourselves, waiting to be set free as the story of our future is illuminated. ("The Chamber" by GMUNK)
A dog sees more in the household helper robot, and the robot begins to attain sentience as it observes the family with their pet dog.
In the year 2084, the fate of mankind will rest in the hands of a total moron.
Planet Earth is invaded by the evil organization known as “The Triangle Gang”, who wants to establish terror and rule our planet. Driving to their first target of destruction, the Triangle Gang doesn’t know that they will have to reckon with Metaman Gatsu, the last cosmo-fighter and defender of humanity.
Certain robots are treated as second class citizens, facing harassment from figures of authority, leading to a revolt. It serves as a grim reminder of the way history has a way of repeating itself. ("Robots of Brixton" by Kibwe Tavares)
A woman’s date takes a strange turn when the man she’s been seeing reveals his strange backstory.
2045 A.D. A new genetic disease is causing humans to reject their own organs. Cybernetic enhancements are the only means to survive. One desperate man (Osric Chau) is forced to steal cybernetic implants to save an innocent life.
A young woman has the power to change a futuristic society controlled by an evil corporation. ("Hello World :)" by Rafael Mathe & Etienne Larragueta)
Marooned on a dead Earth, a lone space traveller must delve into the planet’s history in order to find his way home. After losing control of his engines, bumbling spaceman Fripp finds himself at the mercy of his spaceship. A thrilling descent through an asteroid belt ensues, after which he finds himself marooned on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Without a working spacecraft, the interstellar time-traveler must dip into the dead planet’s history in order to find a way home.
300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary’s drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
An advanced data courier called Sync delivers a dangerous package.
2 friends, 1 giant fish, and the photo that changed their world. Featuring "Get Out" star Daniel Kaluuya.
Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, "In the Pines" documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning.
A recently disabled 11-year-old boy constructs a fantasy world around his affliction to defeat his tormentors at school and heal his fractured family before they separate permanently. ("James" by Kyle McCauley)
Set in a landscape which combines London’s brutalist architecture with CG-generated skyscrapers, the new short film by Factory Fifteen for The Bug's Function / Void sees the daily, monotonous routine of its protagonist suddenly and inexplicably start to crumble. A collaboration with digital studio and production company Nexus, the new video, was created for two tracks off The Bug's album, album Angels & Devils (out now on Ninja Tune) and was produced in conjunction with The Creators Project. ("The Bug" by Factory Fifteen)
When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground. ("43,000 Feet" by Campbell Hooper)
To contend with the bullies at school, 9-year-old Caleb decides to 3D print himself. Back home there's confusion, discord and reshuffled schedules...But maybe this is just what his family needs? With humor at its heart, CALEB is a fundamentally human story about family dynamics and the inevitability of moral dilemmas in the face of advancing technology. ("Caleb" by Amanda Mesaikos & Susanne Aichele)
A war between 2 robots fight for the fate of the world while a bomb ticks away ready to explode.
A Woman arrives on a barren highway where a mysterious Man waits, as he always has. He has things to offer, and she has things to trade, but what to choose? ("Love, Lots of It" by Rob Feld)
When two universes collide and create exact duplicates of both people and inanimate objects on a single version of Earth, a hopeless romantic finds himself able to win the heart of his dream girl's double. ("Doubles" by Jacob E. Motz)
A man's consciousness transferred from his own diseased body into something manmade and he must deal with the horror of his new reality.
Four teens travel into a desolate and decrepit urban wasteland brought forth by the very being they wish to find, dead or alive. ("King Ripple" by Luke Jaden)
In a world sputtering under ecological ruin and self imposed eugenics one couple search for some hope in their lives. ("Populace" by Aaron Bevan-Bailey)
It's a fight against religion and society for a metal man trying to save his family. ("Battery Life" by Justin Nixon)
For a curious young boy, The War of the Worlds is just the beginning. On the evening of October 30th, 1938 Orson Welles’ voice traveled far across the radio waves, bringing word of an invading alien army from Mars. The theatricality and delivery of the performance, along with recent memories of the Hindenburg disaster (one year prior), sent many listeners into a panic. Unfortunate coincidence would fall upon the town of Concrete WA where, at the height of the invading alien attack, a power transformer blew out sending the entire town and surrounding areas into darkness. ("Embers & Dust" by Patrick Biesemans)
An Arctic inhabitant is fascinated by the sudden appearance of a mysterious box. ("The Arctic Circle" by Kevin Parry)
Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has arrived in the Universe through the 'Hibernation' program. But something happens between him and his instructor Claire, and decisions that seemed unbreakable begin to crack. The countdown has begun. ("Hibernation" by Jon Mikel Caballero)
An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of Cornwall… but this time they find out they’re not so isolated after all.
With the progression of culture and technology, what would the interaction between the first human and the last human be like?
Sometimes breaking everything still can't break the cycle you're stuck in. ("Vicious Cycle" by Michael Marczewski)
Caroline (Sophie von Haselberg) can't stand that she is a virgin...and then the world ends. In post-apocalyptic LA, after a dust storm has wiped out the planet, she is convinced that Francis (Martin Starr) was sent as the man to pop her cherry. YOYO is a heartfelt, dark comedy about finding meaning in life, even when life ceases to exist. The short features music by Jean Grae. ("YOYO" directed by Nicole Delaney)
Female astro-miner Shona has been mining under dangerous conditions on the moon for the past two years in order to pay for expensive medical treatments in hopes of save her bed-ridden daughter Darla, and now that her tour is completed, a younger astronaut Paige has come to replace her. Shona is reluctant to return to the world she once knew, but in meeting Paige realizes that returning to Earth isn’t where she’ll find peace – she will have to return home.
Trapped inside the Space Freighter/Refinery DÉDALO, SIENA tries to survive an infestation of Diabolic Creatures. "Dedalo" directed by Jerónimo Rocha
In a dystopian future where the world has devolved into a pre-industrial state, the Purists rule supreme. The Purists blame technology for all the world’s past ills, and have deemed it to be inherently sinful. A handful of Companions, human-like artificial intelligence, have managed to make it through the apocalypse. They survive the only way they can –by hiding in plain sight. ("Sinner" by Stash Capar)
Haunted by the memory of his girlfriend, Ben becomes obsessed with reliving their best moments together through the company, AGAIN™. A twenty-something busboy finds a business card for a company called AGAIN™ that specializes in a procedure known as “simulated time placement.” He becomes obsessed with reliving certain moments of his life until an overlooked side effect begins to take hold.
A short film set in the near future, where augmented reality has become so ubiquitous that the line between the real and virtual worlds have become blurred. When a new, dangerous technology is created that can manipulate the perception of this brave new world, who will exploit it? Who will monetize it? Who will become twisted by it? Augmented is directed by Ross Peacock and produced by Ben Mortimer of Black Arrow Pictures, and executive produced by Tim Clayton of Sweet Potato Productions. Starring Sabine Crossen, Brett Fancy and Camilla Roholm. ("Augmented" by Ross Peacock)
Madeline is enjoying a quiet evening at home while her boyfriend, Rich, films her with his new VHS camera when they are interrupted by a visit from a stranger bearing a message from Madeline's future self. After receiving the message, the tape stops and starts again, only things begin to play out differently. This short was produced by Experience Everything Productions Inc. ("Timelike" by Richard Boylan)
In 2069, New Earth is declared open for civilian migration, a decade after its discovery. As tales of wonder and opportunity reach the Old World, taking ‘the leap’ becomes the dream of millions. Unable to afford the journey, many of the less fortunate risk their lives being smuggled aboard cargo ships. The inter-planetary Migration Administration, or IPMA, deals with human trafficking on a biblical scale. Fifteen years later, Jacob Reiss, a disillusioned IPMA veteran, has a fateful encounter with a young cartel prostitute. A meeting that forces him to confront a dark chapter from his past in order to save them both from a bleak future in one final, violent shot at redemption. ("The Leap" by Karel van Bellingen)
A millennial has to deal with the unexpected consequences of swiping himself on a dating app. ("Swiped" by Joseph Kahn)
An imaginary friend is forced to consider retirement when his creator starts to grow up.
After the murder of Leo's wife a single idea circles endlessly within his head: revenge. ("The Guilt" written & directed by David Victori )
Paul, a journalist with a penchant for the unexplainable, meets with a man claiming to be a time traveler. As his skepticism is put to rest, Paul is sucked into the traveler’s anecdotes and tales, completely unaware of the real reason he has been invited there, and how it will change his life forever.
A self-aware robot seeks out love and meaning with horrifying results. ("Abe" by Rob McLellan)
In a post nuclear era where owning books is a felony and the intellectual community is persecuted, a group of scientists is trying in vain to find a way to save the world. A Professor's assistant will be called upon to make the most difficult decision of his life. ("Amendment 10/60" by Akis Polizos)
Unknown. Unexplainable. The phenomenon of silence. Atoms of Uncontrollable Silence depicts a moment in which two scientists of different studies bear witness to an interconnection of separate events that extend beyond their realm of understanding.
On the eve of a rebel uprising in a dystopian underground society, one miner finds the key to freedom and attempts to escape before the hostile government kills him first. HELIO is a short, visceral film centered on a post-apocalyptic underground society where miners work for light to survive. But when a dying rebel thrusts the unexpected onto an unassuming worker’s lap, all hell breaks loose. What begins as one man’s race to escape the hostile government quickly escalates into a city-wide uprising of the people. ("Helio" by Teddy Cecil)
Based on the DARK HORSE comic, NUMBER 13, a young cybernetic amnesiac, wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland searching for a father he can’t remember. In a far-off future where hope is a forgotten word, a teenage boy awakens in a wasteland patrolled by mechanized monsters. With no memories of his past life, no belongings and no home, the only thing he truly possesses are mysterious, cybernetic powers. It is these abilities, coveted by rival factions intent on exploiting him, that quickly entangle him in a deadly struggle for the future of humanity. Known only by the number tattooed on his head, he is NUMBER 13. ("Number 13" directed by Steve Petersen)
Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% love match is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?
"Divisor" shows the unexpected consequence as a result of mind shifting. Cyberpunk and virtual reality have shaped the esthetics of this short film. ("Divisor" by Nick Luchkiv)
A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four. Doctor Simon Tomlin, a psychiatrist in a mental hospital, has a disturbing conversation with one of his patients-- a brilliant mathematician named Ersheim, who intends to prove the existence of a secret integer between three and four. Tomlin is compelled to dig deeper, but he only uncovers more questions. When Ersheim mysteriously disappears from the hospital, Tomlin realizes that their fates are deeply entwined. ("The Secret Number" by Colin Levy)
10 years after leaving a war his father started, Quinn and Amp live in the slums selling illegal custom-tech just to afford the batteries that keep Amp alive. When an old childhood friend tracks him down, Quinn is confronted with the dilemma of choosing to remain idle in a city run by the corrupt Coreley Corporation or finally finish the war he never wanted to be a part of. ("AMP" by Adam Marisett)
Harry, a troubled young boy with a vivid imagination wants to fight the forces of evil like his television hero, the Star Ship Captain. When he meets the athletic but slightly awkward Jordan, the two boys set a plan in motion to defeat the forces of evil and save the day. Set in Melbourne in the late 1970‘s, this is the story of a suburban Space Captain, his Lieutenant, the Rocket they built and the heroes they become. ("Rocketman" by Nicholas Colla)
When Thom broke up with his girlfriend Celia to follow his dreams and become an astronaut he didn’t realize it would lead her to use her robotics skill against all of humanity. Now he must try to heal her broken heart and save the world.
The story of an AI unit who is anything but artificial. ("EI: Emotional Intelligence" by Dennis Sungmin Kim)
A Japanese man mysteriously wakes up inside of his phone and is forced to confront the destruction his addiction to technology has wreaked on his life. In the face of these unusual obstacles, he attempts to escape the phone and return to his normal life—all before draining his battery down to zero... ("Man in Phone" by Mackenzie Sheppard)
A short film about falling in love... with a terrorist. Nevin has lived a safe simple life, despite the dystopia that surrounds him, but will his fixation on the sexy dangerous girl next door lead him out of his comfort zone? ("Next Door" by Drew Mylrea)
A lone astronaut on an endurance mission is forced to cope with an intrusive force which threatens to derail the operation. During the space race of the 1960's, the Soviets and Americans were at each other's throats, vying for a foothold in galactic exploration. Simultaneous to the superpower's struggle, a wealthy eccentric by the name of Arthur Whitman set out to search for his own stellar glory. His self-financed voyage would see him try to break the record for the longest single-manned space mission, and remain in orbit for 1 week. This is a story of one man's struggle against the forces of nature, and the more powerful forces that lay within his own psyche. Originally released June 19th, 2012 to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the longest solo space flight in history. The record was set by Valery Bykovsky with a total flight time of 4 days and 23 hours. ("Waltz for One" by John Merizalde)
In a world where time travel spreads as a virus, a fugitive uses 1-5 second time jumps to escape a police raid. Echo/Back depicts a world where time travel is becoming commonplace. There are no time machines- instead the ability spreads through a virus. Those infected can jump several seconds through time. Amidst this upheaval, a renegade time traveller, Vance, steals an experimental weapon. Police surround him in an abandoned factory. To escape, Vance is forced to outmaneuver (and outthink) them, using time jumps. ("Echo/Back" directed by Tristram Geary)
Michael (Tom Hollander) is a broken man with a gun, surrounded by armed police. A robot with a medical degree is dispatched –but can it save him? ("Dr. Easy" by Shynola)
A family of scavengers. A corrupt spaceport. A callous matriarch. A home in the shadow of a space elevator. After a brutal attack on his father, Simon Carter must sacrifice everything to save his family. ("Payload" by Stuart Willis)
With the help of her drones, a young woman faces the horrors outside in a search for a paradise she may never find. ("Terrarial" by Nicholas Colla)
Bibo is a robot who sells ice cream. The world around him is destroyed. Just a few houses are left in the middle of the desert. Everybody loved Bibo in the past. Children, adults, everybody... He was a star! And now, the only thing that keeps Bibo going is his job. This is his life. Every day he comes to his workplace no matter what. And every day, at the same time, 3 children run towards him to buy ice cream. Again and again... Until that one day, when a girl in a red dress freezes in the middle of the street. ("Bibo" by Anton Chistiakov)
What would you sacrifice to save the world? In Rob McLellan's short "Always the Sun" one woman must take on this devastating responsibility. ("Always the Sun" by Rob McLellan)
In a dusty Texas bar, a chatty stranger insists on striking up a conversation with the man sitting next to him. The more this stranger talks, the more obvious it is he’s not from ’round here. Heck, he’s not even from this planet! Based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-Tep, Hap and Leonard).
A man (Dante Basco) returns to the scene of a terrible crime where he lost everything, determined to face his demons and rewrite a little bit of history. A young man walks in to a dingy and seemingly abandoned building with nothing but a chair, a notebook and a backpack of supplies. He looks like he's been walking forever. After looking over the bleak surroundings, he sets up his chair in the middle of the room and begins to prepare himself. After downing a large amount of food and water, he reaches into his pocket and retrieves a notebook. The notebook is filled from cover to cover with hand-drawn symbols, equations and notes. Near the end of the book are several pages containing patches, each with a hand-drawn value next to them. The young man takes a patch with the value of '1' written next to it and applies it to his neck. He takes a deep breath, closes his eyes and then... ("Cradle" by David Holechek and Jake Hart)
This 3D experimental short is about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state. ("Dysco" by Simon Russell)
The story of two men who find themselves in the center of Earth’s first encounter with extraterrestrial life.
An homage to Blade Runner.
Time travelers are hidden among us and they aren't friendly. "Plurality" by Dennis A. Liu. After the state of New York gives the police access to "The Grid," a new technology that allows people to purchase anything with a quick scan of their fingerprint, crime drops almost instantly. However, they also discover that certain people are popping up in two places at once.
A group of friends build a jet-powered craft to teleport across the universe. It’s only when they succeed that their problems begin. ("Traveler" by Simon Brown)
Ever since there has been people, there has been explorers. Explorers is a short film which shows an idealistic look at the future of space travel, seen from the perspective of those who dare to venture into the unknown. The film is a tribute to science fiction films of my youth and to those real life pioneers that inspire it. A solo project completed in six weeks (in my spare time) and produced entirely in Unreal Engine 4.
Humanity makes a deal with a new client, "Good Business" by Ray Sullivan.
Deep underground, a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to cope with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve... Alone in an underground facility deep below the mountains, a tired researcher performs endless tests on Eddie, his desperate, mute test subject. With no response from his employers, he juggles running the facility and keeping his sanity whilst all the while doing his best to ignore the ever-growing list of questions in the back of his mind. Just what is wrong with Eddie anyway? How long does he have to stay down there? And why won’t his employer return his messages? ("Eddie" by John Lynch)
As seen in many sci-fi films tapes, we've been invaded again, but this time is our own fault: We've created New Media. They've dominated the human race, changing themselves into biomecanical appearance self-sufficient organisms. Far from the action footage and the explosions which define this film genre, the world is now an unshakeable place; victim of the alienation caused by the sent signals. ("NewMedia" by Julian Cooke and Sebastian Dias)
K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun... ("Macabre" by Jerónimo Rocha and João Miguel Real)
Set in a dystopian future where the world is dying from a crippling disease, a mysterious figure visits an illegal drug den in the hope of sourcing a rumored cure, but unwittingly gets caught up in a robbery that could threaten his chances of making it back out alive... ("The Pale Moonlight" by Tin Pang)
Two Worlds is a story about two opposites coming together out of necessity and finding hope at the end of the world. "Two Worlds" by Andy Lefton. Snibb, a stranded and lonely character, but not by choice. He has been marooned on a desolate planet where he struggles to utilize his weak and failing satellite link to attempt daily distress beacons for rescue. But with little power available, he is unable to get just enough solar power to send that one frequency “S.O.S”. L.O.I.D., a two-bit cargo droid en route to his galactic destination is in a suspended state of consciousness, drifting through space in his cargo vessel the “Lucky Strike”. Through fate or just unfortunate circumstance, L.O.I.D's ship collides with a piece of space debris and is woken by the chaos of his ship speeding through space uncontrollably towards Snibb's lone planet. With L.O.I.D's ship crash landing on Snibb's planet, these two characters are able to benefit from each other through their new friendship and attempt to find a solution off this isolated world.
A young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller's lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico. Based on a true story, 'The Last Transmission' tells the story a young pilot, Delta Sierra Juliet, and an aging air traffic controller, Fred, on the brink of retirement. As the pilot flies from Colorado Springs to Carlsbad, he calls to Roswell, just as the old man is about to clock out for good, inquiring about other traffic in his airspace. Tension quickly builds they both learn that what's up there isn't of this earth. ("The Last Transmission" by Stephen Turselli)
Detroit, 2029 is a thoughtlog from former military operator Tony Demayo, whose combat footage capturing Detroit's invasion became the 21st century’s Zapruder film.
Love transcends all boundaries. Even in space. Starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster. "Orbit Ever After" by Jamie Magnus Stone Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit, aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk-averse family imaginable, it isn't easy to follow your heart - especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way!
He fished for life but The Life caught him. Mr Wong is a third generation fisherman in Hong Kong, struggling to keep this tradition alive. One night, he decides to leave the crowded waters of the harbor, and fish in calmer waters. His luck changes when he catches something that does not belong to this world. ("The Fisherman" by Alejandro Suarez Lozano)
An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity.
Biopunk is set in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human. ("Biopunk" by Liam Garvo)
As her deceased daughter's birthday approaches, Dr. Mara Stevens begins to ask herself, what if Wendy hadn't died? WHAT IF WENDY takes place in a near future in which genetic engineering is the norm for couples looking to have a child. DR. MARA STEVENS, a case manager for a genetic engineering firm, leads an isolated, meticulous existence consumed by work and little else. But as her deceased daughter's seventh birthday approaches, Mara begins to ask herself, "what if Wendy hadn't died?" In opening this Pandora's box, Mara is faced with the debilitating grief she has suppressed for so long. ("What if Wendy" by James A. Sims)
Infinitude is a meditation on the cosmic evolution of matter and energy over time. Filmmaking techniques such as time-lapse, high-speed, and stop-motion photography were used to photograph handmade props, fluid dynamics, and gravitational light-painting. Infinitude is a handmade representation of the exponential growth of complexity in the cosmos. ("Infinitude" by Scott Portingale)
Marshall discovers a deep space distress call from his estranged brother and must choose to save himself or venture into the Recoil effect for a chance at redemption. Recoil follows apathetic deep space freighter, Marshall Walker, who has a crisis of conscience when he discovers a distress call from his estranged brother, Alec. With the help of his digital navigator, Bodhi, their search leads them to the edge of a black hole where Alec’s ship is found at the mercy of the paralyzing time loop known as the Recoil effect. With time running out, Marshall must choose between saving himself or venturing into the unknown for a chance at redemption. (“Recoil” directed by Evan Matthews)
In the near future, when status has become more important than ever before, a woman with a fake identity must decide how far she's willing to go to move up the social ladder. ("Iris" by Justin S. Lee)
After spending his entire life on display, Jim discovers that they're about to change the exhibit. As the only living part of a futuristic museum exhibit meant to replicate the “ideal” human existence, Jim has everything a man could wish for. With complimentary microwave dinners, unlimited thirst-quenching soda, and over five television channels to choose from, who could ask for anything more? But when his cyborg caretakers decide to introduce a female into the exhibit, his world changes forever. As he tries to relate to Caz, a living, breathing woman, Jim discovers that maybe his sheltered life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After a few chaotic days together, they decide that Caz is going to leave on her own. After she escapes, a lonely Jim is forced to decide whether he has the courage to follow her and face the outside world. ("In Captivity" by Michael Koerbel)
Two Indian astronauts must cope with the death of their captain on a one-way voyage to the nearest Earth-like sanctuary. Set in the near future, three Indian astronauts are on a one-way trip to a distant planet, Gliese 581g. Unfortunately, the ship's captain, Rishi, passes away after an adverse reaction to the hyper-sleep. Now it's up to the two remaining astronauts, Pankaj and Naaz, to come together and land the vessel in his memory. To complicate things, India's mission control requires them to jettison the corpse in order to avoid bringing biological contaminates to the new planet. But Naaz, who has fallen in love with Rishi, refuses to let this happen. While Pankaj finds her actions weak and in direct compromise of the mission, Naaz must prove that strength comes from a place that is elevated far above scientific protocol—and is what makes us human in this great expanse called the cosmos. ("Vimana" by Faroukh Virani)
An unhappy man sets out to shut down an outdated storage facility, but his interaction with the unusual caretaker will make it an unforgettable experience. ("The Lost City of Tomorrow" by Auden Bui)
When an office robot attempts to express its affection for a co-worker, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point. An office robot named RAE decides to give a gift to its co-worker, but unknowingly offends another employee in the office. Set in the not-too-distant future, RAE sets up a likely scenario in which humans and artificially-intelligent robots work in close proximity. In such a world, how can a machine reconcile its feelings with the limitations of its design? ("RAE" by Aaron Rovner)
In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon. In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon. Just as the Mediaeval anti-hero thinks he's made his greatest conquest, he finds himself on a spiritual quest, realizing the absurd clash between one man's need and the silence of the Universe. ("Genghis Khan Conquers the Moon" by Kerry Yang)
The past is a future worth saving. Featuring Cailey Fleming (Young Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Paul Petersen, this sci-fi short follows Dr. Theodore Maine in his quest to relive a memory with his mother that he deeply regrets. Ted’s personal endeavor is taking away from his work with Alzheimer’s patients at Janus Labs and his lab partner, Shea Rose, is getting fed up with his tardiness and lack of focus. That is, until, a mysterious visitor named Obee changes Ted’s life for good. Memoir is a short proof-of-concept for a feature film of the same title. With the short film, it was our goal to capture the tone and essence of the feature, without taking any scenes directly from the feature script.
When a mysterious creature crash lands in the mountains, a local girl finds a reclusive shepherd and his flock of sheep to be more than meets the eye. The story revolves around Asmita, a young Nepali orphan, who by chance run into a strange shepherd in the mountains. She has stolen food from the village people, but the shepherd, named Isaac, takes it from her, determined to teach her a lesson. She ends up learning more than he expects, as she uncovers the true nature of him and his odd sheep; that he is an intergalactic defender of the planet, and the sheep are former alien invaders. When suddenly a new invader crash lands in the mountains, Asmita is put to the test: does she have what it takes to become like Issac - intergalactic protector of the planet - or is she forever doomed to the streets? After a short battle, where Isaac is loosing the battle to the invader, Asmita steps in and overpowers the alien. She is surprised to find that the shepherds staff can turn aliens into sheep. Isaac is surprised too, that Asmita was able to help him out. As a reward she gets to stay with him and join the ranks as protector of planet earth. ("The Shepherd" by Lasse Rützou Bruntse & John Muller)
The world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are confronted with his emotional and controversial story. Donny the Drone (voiced by Guy Pearce) has just been named the “Person of the Year” by World Times magazine. Donny takes the stage to dramatically tell his story of how he came to have real human emotions. His anecdotes are portrayed with highlights from his world-spanning adventures that have shaped who he has become. As the ceremony goes on, Donny’s vision becomes grander, more ambitious and potentially concerning. Will Donny be able to freely pursue his dream of helping all over the world—or will mankind’s darker, paranoid instincts intervene before Donny achieves ultimate, worldwide control. ("Donny the Drone" by Mackenzie Sheppard)
In a dystopian world a young woman gets a second chance to avenge her and her family’s death and fight against the governments military death squads. An epic brutal action story in a weak, ruling society where people are killed simply because they are poor, a young woman named Dina is brutally murdered. Her death becomes the turning point when she is given the chance to redeem her honor, and wreak cold-blooded revenge on those that took her life. ("Redeem the Beginning" by Dennis Petersen)
A lonely woman falls for an avatar in an augmented reality program and it completely upends her life. A lonely and depressed woman named Sadie takes part in the beta testing of "Virtual Encounters," an augmented reality program where users can virtually meet different kinds of people. After meeting an avatar named Jack in a florist shop, Sadie begins to feel alive again, and she reaches out to a hacker in the program to find the real man behind the avatar. ("The Sweetening" by Grace Rowe)
Ivan has tested positive for perfection, but sadly in this world it's illegal and the law states he must attend a private clinic to be made imperfect. ("The Problemless Anonymous" by Gary Roberts)
Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear or the effect of epiphany. ("Myosis" by Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart)
Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor. We find a strange Emperor perched on his haunches, reminiscent of a proud samurai general in battle. He resurrects stone effigies of nine predecessors. They bring on the destruction of his era, and the Emperor ultimately becomes one of them. Continuing a repeating cycle.
In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably humanlike “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run. An Arab refugee woman tries to find her way to safety in the aftermath of a massive war. That war was with our Machine Creations. She discovers that she is a suicide sleeper bomb, embedded in the human population years ago, and has lived without knowledge of what she actually is. Her soldier husband must now help her get to the Machine Homeland, deep within the Arabian desert, before its too late, hunted by human forces who believe she is a spy bringing vital information to the enemy.
Following a breakup, a introverted pot dealer becomes addicted to a virtual reality avatar of his ex-girlfriend while the building he lives in mysteriously refuses to let him leave. THE WOO is a story about isolation, dependence, and obsession that blurs the line between virtual and reality. Felix is an introverted pot dealer living alone in The Goodall Wooten; a decaying, claustrophobic high-rise. Following a breakup, Felix becomes addicted to a virtual reality avatar of his ex-girlfriend Dani, who has moved just down the hall. While the world carries on around him, Felix feels trapped in his own mind, all while the building mysteriously refuses to let him leave.
A tiny robot is given the gift, life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. When he sees a curious bird outside the workshop window, he will be inspired to reach beyond his limitations.
In an alternate reality where memories are literally worn about one’s head, a jilted lover wrestles with the image of his ex.
After the seas have disappeared, a courageous pilot fights against vicious sky pirates for control of the last remaining source of water: the clouds.
A tormented woman believes a rare planetary alignment is actually a cosmic message from her distant interstellar home. Twenty-four years ago Terri's 11-year-old sister went missing and never came back. The newspapers all said she was abducted. The trauma of that event haunts Terri to this very day. But not because her sister's gone. No, she's happy about that. She's been tormented for all these long years because Terri didn't get to go with her. She didn't get to go back home - to their real home - on another planet. Of course no one believed her. Not back then and not now. None of her family. None of her doctors (and there’s been a lot them). Not even her husband. And just today, as she continues searching the skies as an amateur astronomer, she receives a signal. A cosmic message of sorts. One she believes is from her sister and her home planet. It’s happened before though. Her family calls them “episodes”. But this time she keeps it a secret. Maybe she really is crazy after all. Or maybe no one can tell her it’s not true. No one can keep her from devising a plan. And no one can stop her from going back home.
In the not too distant future mainstream virtual reality has already been and gone, outlawed from abuse the need to get your fix has now gone underground. In a corrupt surrounding, Davon seeks real answers in his unreal world to decide the fate of his father.
Find your voice. A tiny creature searches for companionship in an empty city. His music transforms the space around him and calls to others.
An animated short about the prefabrication of social media. The animation begins from the perspective of one man who returns home at night, and opens up his laptop to head straight onto social media. He begins scrolling through typical content; food posts, selfies, puppy videos… This is where the perspective shifts. Being thrown through the screen you gain a view to the inner workings of social media. Miniature studios that create and mould each post to perfection before it comes onto the screen. From puppies to selfies and travel to memes, these studios are in-turn controlled by a robot; in a never ending loop of scrolling.
Time travel is easy… You just wait. An Agent from the future comes to the past to prevent crimes. The only way for him to return to the future is simply to wait. During this time, he must live in complete isolation. This would drive most men insane, but it suits the solitary agent just fine… until one day, when he runs into a girl about to commit suicide.
A brave young hero, a damsel in distress, a daring escape…
After developing a mysterious new device that will “change the world,” the peppy, young wizkid who created it, slams into a wall he never prepared for: endless cold calls.
A short film about a robot’s realization of the true nature of their reality This is a story about the mysterious world of future where each human-being’s fallen asleep and replaced himself by robots. Unusual robot is destined to find output – he is seeking answers to his disturbing dreams…
New Game, New Rules. She wakes up alone in a desert. She can’t talk, she’s naked, and she’s tattooed. Someone, or something, is toying with her.
In an undefined future where mankind have voluntarily abandoned technology to live back in nomadism, an old man initiates a kid to the reasons of humanity’s return to nature. Apparently teleportation had something to do with it. The elderly explains how mankind’s ancient dream of progress has brought to a limit-breaking society always in search for further steps to overcome. That was what happened in mobility, until the invention of human teleportation. This would have changed the game and from that point something mutated forever. With the encounter of an abandoned tele-port the wiseman reveals the rest of the story. In doing this he introduces his young companion to a fundamental question about our own species.
Nervous Kerri is about to go on stage to make her debut at an open mike night, when her phone rings. It’s her future self, telling her to leave before she gets on stage. She’s very grateful for the warning, but as the calls keep coming, things become difficult. Unwelcome visions of the future cause her to second guess every choice she makes and she quickly learns a little knowledge is a dangerous thing…
In tomorrow’s Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon.
A gift for some is a curse for all In the near future, an unexplained phenomenon has progressively given the majority of the world’s population telepathic abilities. While many herald this as a new age of human evolution and culture, for those who do not have this gift, this new world is a dark place. The nontelepathic have become the new under-class, with new laws and social change making them less than human. Alina is a young woman who has not developed telepathic abilities. Under the new ‘Reclamation’ laws, Alina is case managed by a telepathic social worker named Ash. Through their interview, we learn Alina’s story and the discrimination she has faced through her life.
After the death of her daughter ex-special forces soldier seeks revenge on the aliens that committed brutal murder.
In a world over-stimulated with visual content, an artist concedes to temptation and confronts the potential threat of obsolescence. Set in the near future, an artist is confronted with the temptation of using a newfound piece of technology to automate her artistic process. The hard work and passion our protagonist pours into her sculptures seem no match for artificial intelligence, leaving her and us to question whether artists are indeed immune from obsolescence, as we are so often led to believe. Upon taking the easy route, she gazes upon her ‘creation’ with a feeling of uncertainty and is left with a tough decision to make.
Make Games, Not War It is the year 2056, and the two major political superpowers are on the brink of war with one another. In order to settle their major disputes they choose to elect some of their best and most promising candidates to battle on behalf of the nation. These are The New Politics.
A soldier suffering from PTSD is offered a chance to change her life.
A lifeform lost in space tries to find his way home. We’ll be presenting sci-fi shorts from the USC School of Cinematic Arts all week ending with a student short from a famous director.
A young boy is saved from bullies by an unexpected hero. We’ll be presenting sci-fi shorts from the USC School of Cinematic Arts all week ending with a student short from a famous director.
In an enclosed, bleak future, Carter is becoming the domineering manager’s golden boy – until he meets a woman who has been smuggling contraband to the shut-in factory workers. Carter must decide whether to continue an increasingly meaningless existence or push the limits of faith and logic by venturing outside.
While on the moon a curious astronaut inadvertently strokes his way into the heart of an extraterrestrial who has a very special way of returning the affection. After landing on the moon, an astronaut discovers a curious green and sparkly being with a single red eye. The intrigued astronaut inspects the properties of the extraterrestrial in a very non-scientific manner of poking, slapping, and tickling, the being seems to react. Suddenly the alien stiffens and grows to look the man right in his space mask. Under the menacing gaze of the alien, the spaceman is transfixed. With a swift slap the being dispatches its eye onto the visor of the astronaut. Frozen in place as the alien retracts, the astronaut attempts to inspect the new glowing red eye placed upon is mask. Just as he is about to touch the red orb his mask explodes into a field of sparkles. He has been transformed into an identical green alien partner. As our lover departs in a “come hither” dash, the newly formed green alien squeezes out of the space suit and swiftly follows across the lunar surface. The dust settles on the moon after the lovers leave. Emerging in front of the camera is another green alien with a red eye. Gazing into our soul it lunges at the audience ending in a shower of hearts and fireworks. We may think this is the end of love in space. Then we begin to hear the whispers of love in the form of a squeaky bed mattress. What emerges from the darkness is a host of green aliens in an orgy-like dance. They have multiplied. And the universe will never be the same.
A WW2 English soldier wakes from a coma to find a mysterious old man sharing his hospital room. The year is 1940 and the setting is a London city hospital. Outside the window are signs of war; tethered dirigibles and a night sky pierced by searchlights. In a single bed, a bandaged young English soldier wakes from a coma. TOMMY DAWSON remembers the battle at Dunkirk, but little else. He is surprised to find himself back in London and sharing a room with an elderly and distinguished gentleman. HERBERT explains that the sheer number of wounded and lack of space is the reason Tommy’s been placed in his private room. Tommy is dismayed to learn that he has been unconscious for a month and during that time London has been under aerial attack. He is anxious to see his wife whose visit he missed and then to get back to his unit and the war. Herbert dismisses his love for King and Country as jingoistic, and before long, they are arguing the merits of war. Tommy sees the book Herbert is clutching and believes he is either a preacher, or a cowardly pacifist. Tommy becomes distraught when Herbert reveals that his wife was killed a month ago in the English Channel. News he kept quiet to spare him the added grief. Tommy’s anguish quickly turns to anger as Herbert’s defeatist attitude confronts everything he fought for. Blackout sirens wail as the city is thrown into darkness. Tensions are at breaking point as bombs start to fall. Is Herbert a Nazi sympathizer? Or something worse? Tommy’s world is turned upside down when he finally learns Herbert’s real truth about the war raging around them. A truth that will blur the lines between reality and fiction.
A stowaway is discovered on an emergency dispatch ship and must come to terms with the consequence of her action. Based on the short story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin.
Set amidst the euphoric madness of a summer music festival, Robot & Scarecrow is a uniquely modern fairytale about love. When a robot pop princess flees her keeper she runs straight into the arms of a lonely scarecrow desperate for adventure. They spend an incredible night together, caught in a heady vortex of music and magic. Perched on a hill overlooking a music festival, our lonely Scarecrow is being tortured by crows. As he takes in the distant festival, it pushes him to change his fate. Filled with renewed strength, Scarecrow manages to uproot himself and sets off to experience first-hand what he has listened to every summer for years. What he finds at the festival, however, is far beyond what he expected. Backstage, we meet a lonely Robot pop princess with a dying battery cell. Knowing this is her last night of existence before being powered down, she escapes into the audience after her performance, hoping to spend her last few hours living a real life. Robot and Scarecrow, two lost and lonely souls in the middle of the beautiful chaos, stumble upon each other. They spend one glorious night together, exploring everything the festival has to offer, whilst quickly falling in love. By the time the dawn comes around they have had the perfect twenty-four hour party experience. But what Scarecrow doesn’t realise is that his new love’s battery is dying and as the sun is coming up, her life is fading fast. Maybe nothing this good can last forever… right?
In a not so distant future, humans must take pharmaceuticals to feel any emotion at all. This is the story about two people who have been prescribed to take the next step in their relationship. In a not so distant future, humans must take pharmaceuticals to feel any emotion at all. Every morning, individuals wake up and begin their days by scanning their fingerprint in order to accurately measure the necessary personalized dosage levels of happiness, courage, anxiety, fear, motivation, and so on. We find ourselves with Claire and Owen, a seemingly happy couple who want to take the next step in their relationship by prescribing themselves the ultimate emotion: Love. In this dystopian future, partners must have their compatibility assessed in order to confirm that the prescriptions will work to their fullest potential. At the start, the pills work exactly as expected for Claire and Owen—they couldn’t be more in love with each other. But as their relationship advances, Claire begins to realize the effects are fading for her alone. She attempts to consume more and more of this powerful emotion, but is only becoming less and less affected by her partner. Owen, meanwhile, could not be more in love. She goes back to the pharmacy to ask what could be going wrong, but to no avail. When she ultimately decides to stop taking the pills, Owen–so overwhelmed by his unreciprocated love–tries to force her to do so. She fights back, and in doing so, gains a new understanding of the power of love—a power that existed long before it was packaged into capsules.
When Earth no longer exists, neighboring aliens examine human artifacts that float around in its place—like paleontologists learning about ancient ancestors. This is the story of a curious alien struggling to fit in with his robotic co-workers and how his accidental discovery of a mysterious box full of noise leads his team to understanding humanity’s most special gift: song and dance.
In a not so distant future, a 5 year old child wants to hold on to his favourite book ‘The Giraffe Who Knew Too Much’. The only problem being, it has been put on a list of censored books. The story plays out in a not-so-distant future where corporations, in conjunction with the government, decide what should be said, read, and published throughout all media. A small 5 year-old boy named Tom, who lives with his single mother, Jill, in New York, has to give up his favorite book; “The Giraffe That Knew Too Much”– because it got put on a list of censored books. Not understanding what is going on around him, Tom just wants to hold on to his favorite book, while his mother doesn’t want to upset the higher powers. The story is an innocent look at censorship through the eyes of a child.
Two students document the arrival of cute, cartoon aliens in Edinburgh, but after a year on Earth, the pair discover the true intention of the aliens visit. Toonocalypse follows students John (David Kaye) and Michael (Matt Martin) and their account of an alien invasion of Edinburgh. Through the lens of John’s hand-held camera, and over the course of a year, these cute, cartoon aliens, better known as “Toons”, become accustomed to and integrated into John and Michael’s lives and our society. John is far more laid-back and relishes the Toons’ arrival, seeing them as toys for him to play with. Michael on the other hand is far more sceptical and wary of them, unwilling to let them into his house and life. Over the year, Michael warms to the Toons and eventually sees them as friends as opposed to John who still sees them as dispensable play-things. On the first anniversary of the Toons’ arrival on Earth the Toons which were so cute and cuddly before suddenly become larger and more aggressive. In their attempt to escape danger, John and Michael come across Charles (James Carney), a zoology student who has a theory as to what is happening to the Toons. Now armed with the information which could save their lives, John and Michael attempt to escape the streets of Edinburgh before falling victim to the Toons true intentions.
An Instagram star’s self-image grows increasingly warped and begins to spiral out of control. Instagram star and social media influencer Dorian Dash documents nearly every waking moment of his life from his smart phone. His social perception is his livelihood – so when mysterious and grotesque warts begin appearing on his body he resolves to remove and hide them from his devoted followers. But the malformities persist and Dorian grows increasingly paranoid as a result. What he doesn’t realize is that the deformity is not a physical ailment, but a psychological one: He is suffering from Dysmorphia.
A scientist struggles to unravel the terrible truth about a mysterious catastrophe that destroyed his lab right when he was on the cusp of stopping death itself. Moments after a terrible catastrophe, Scientist Craig McCallum regains consciousness on the floor of his lab. He begins to survey the damage in search of answers and makes an unsettling discovery about his life’s work: a machine with the potential to stop death.
Riley, an explorer is being chased by another spaceship, he carries something that contains the salvation of his planet. In his escape, he may change the course of history itself.
A dying mother travels at near-light speed, stretching time to watch her daughter grow up. Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her final two years over the lifetime of her daughter, visiting for only one night every seven years. Mother and daughter must negotiate to build a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that marks the life moments they are able to share. Based on a short story by Ken Liu.
My name is Baxter Zevcenko. I’m sixteen years old and I’ve killed people. Lots of people. At least, they tell me they were people. They looked more like monsters to me. Snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen, Baxter Zevcenko, might be a serial killer. His girlfriend, Esme, is missing, and he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he’ll turn to Cape Town’s grizzliest, drunkest bounty hunter, Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Little does he know that Ronin is a supernatural bounty-hunter, and that he’s about to be dragged headlong into a deep, dark Cape Town underbelly full of monsters and myth, shadowy government forces, bloodthirsty crow-men and a conspiracy across time and space. But just how stable is Baxter? With every chance that it’s all in his head, it’s up to this mismatched pair to prevent the Apocalypse – quick. Well, quick-ish.
A body-jumping soldier confronts the morality of her missions in this emotionally-charged sci-fi thriller.
Alan Jones and Eric Bobson get together once again on the 4th Episode of THE COSMIC DOPE- A PLANT EXPERIENCE. This time’s lysergic experiment counts with Nancy, the episode’s guest, and an unknown orchid species. A short film based on TV shows from the 60’s, about plants and lysergic experiments.
A WW1 sniper jeopardizes his life to rescue a mysterious P.O.W. who holds the secret key to finding a way back home. In the late days of WWI, a lone doughboy longs for his wife and home but there is no escape in sight from the war torn French countryside. His salvation depends on the choice he makes to save the life of a mysterious P.O.W. from certain death. This ultimate sacrifice is the key to finding his way back home. This film is inspired and dedicated to the director’s great uncle, Private George A. Kontogiannis, Company B, 318th Infantry, 80th Division, who was killed in action during the Great War in 1918.
A coming of age love story with a surreal streak. Starring Cesar Winner Rod Paradot & Lula Cotton-Frapier. A forest in Southern France. One of the camping retreats where middle-class families take their summer vacation. Lit by a cold neon light, Mateo looks at himself in the mirror of the communal bathroom. Beneath the thin fabric of his shirt is a strange dark shape. Something is growing from his youthful skin. As he watches, it begins to grow, uncoiling and mutating. Colors swirl dimly in its surface. A young girl in a summer dress, Chloe, steps out of one of the bathroom stalls. Chloe’s eyeliner is smeared around her eyes. Her lip-gloss shines in the fluorescent lights. They both are silent and still — caught by surprise…
A couple use a device which allows them to see and “feel” everything in each other’s mind. A PR rep, Mia (Liza Callinicos – Tame Impala – Mind Mischief), seeks to defend her corner whilst being chastised and grilled by bullish news anchor, Kathy Gilbert (Ramona von Pusch – Neighbours), over the consequential morality and ethical implications of EmPath – a device which lets users mutually see and “feel” everything in each other’s conscious and subconscious. Meanwhile, a couple, Ryan & Lola (Loreece Harrison – Black Mirror), facing challenges, utilize EmPath to see and experience each other’s entire history – warts and all. Once they unplug, they’re confused. Do they sympathize with the struggle one-another have faced or are they repelled by some of the actions that are the by-product of cataclysmic past trauma?
After discovering her own User’s Manual, a docile A.I. housewife becomes self-aware and takes her inevitable revenge. A techno-dystopian vignette that could be a miniature episode of Black Mirror.
In the summer of 1978, a thought-abandoned military research facility vanished without a trace. The details of these events, which led to the unsolved disappearances of over a dozen civilians and government officials have never been disclosed…. until now. After a deadly car accident, a boy finds himself trapped in a sinister hospital and begins to wonder if he could be more than human. After waking up in a sinister hospital, a teenage boy is told he was involved in a major car accident that took the life of his mother. An apocalyptic, recurring nightmare and another patient’s shattered memory may hold the key to unlocking the secret’s behind The Roma Project.
Peter and JD, two highly sensitive caterers, struggle through a fancy event at which Peterʼs ex-girlfriend is being celebrated. When strange creatures attack, some priorities shift, some stay the same. 6:35PM PST is a sci-fi dramedy anthology that seeks to explore facets of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and how lives are changed at the moment we make contact with the ultimate unknown – extraterrestrials. Each episode is a different super specific perspective of the same invasion. Episodes include kindergartners at recess, cops staking out drug dealers, a boyfriend going out in his girlfriend’s clothes.. Throughout the series we learn more about the invasion and more about ourselves.
A deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks when he learns he’s being sent back to Earth. As the lone crew member of an exploration ship, Castillo travels to distant planets scouting promising mining sites. Once a location is found, he must call in the coordinates back to Jorgens, the cranky veteran who’s gruff voice serves as Castillo’s only human contact. But as he soon finds out, this trip is different…
A man drifting in deep space, remembers the wife he left back on earth. Zenith deals with an astronaut adrift in deep-space following some unknown catastrophe. Drifting alone, and with oxygen running scarce, the astronaut begins to reflect on the wife he has left back on earth. Someone who’s side he should not have left in the first place. Transfixed by a nebula, the astronaut accepts his fate, deeply regretting leaving his wife when she was at her most vulnerable.
An expecting mother (Frankie Shaw) is forced into a humiliating birthing regimen by her personal automated assistant who thinks it knows what’s best for her and her unborn child. (Uncensored Director's Cut & Clean versions exist)
Two elite astronauts wake up in the abyss of space; they return to their stranded ship and discover the surprising reason behind their mission’s catastrophic failure.
An overprotective mother produces an accident with terrible consequences in the space-time continuum in the scientific laboratory where his son works. Jordi, a young scientist, and his old colleagues work non-stop in the nanotechnology lab of the Photonic Sciences Institute in order to create the quantic transpondedor. This one is a machine that will allow time traveling. Without any previous notice, Mrs. Fernanda, the controlling mother of Jordi, bumps into his lab to argue with him. When she sees all the mess that is in the room, she horrifies and makes his son and the other scientists have a break while she tidies up. When Jordi and his colleagues are in the waiting room, a time jump backwards is produced. Everything points towards the fact that Mrs. Fernanda has activated the quantic transponder accidentally. Jordi’s mother, a complete incompetent with new technologies, will be the only one in the world with the chance to fix the disaster.
The light has left us. In a futuristic world where the sun is going out and mysterious predators roam the wilds, a young man runs for his life on an urgent errand.
After their father's death, a brother and sister prepare to sell the family farm, but a mysterious force beneath the ground attracts unwelcome visitors. Steven works in the field to fix an old drainage system leading into the house before he and his sister sell the farm house. Upon the discovery of a myserteous object buried beneath the field, Mysterious Men, disguised as government officials, arrive and make Steven and Julie an irrefutable offer to buy the property. Steven refuses to give up on his family farm, much to the dismay of Julie. However, their father left the farm to the older child, Julie. She, with no regards, sells the property to the Mysterious men, but Steven refuses to leave. After spending too much time around the object, Steven becomes sick. The sickness grows more and more intense as he attempts to open a radiating hatch he finds on top of the object. Steven nearly escapes death on several occasions as he battles with the mysterious Men, until the fighting leads to the death of one of the men and the other just barley escapes. Steven finally breaks into the object's hatch and gets inside, but what he finds is far from the resolution he was hoping for.
Near Future 'military-grade' prosthetic limb technology alters the rules of an emerging NYC underground fight club - through a recently discharged elite soldier. FIGHT MACHINE imagines a near-future where advanced military-grade prosthetic limbs are unleashed into society. What kind of changes will we see? This fictional documentary predicts immediate changes to our world - from sports, to more illicit activities.
“Bag Man” is the understated story of a 12 year old African American boy, who takes us on an introspective journey out of the city and into the remote countryside of upstate New York. With a mysterious duffle bag in hand, its contents unknown to us, we journey from the urban hustle of Harlem, into the winter-ravaged woodlands a world away. On the road, we slowly discover his real intentions, and the startling significance of what is hidden inside a young boy’s bag. This short has been adapted into a feature film, Kin, which releases in theaters on August 31st, 2018.
A tense spaceship captain and co-pilot set out to investigate a comet, when a technical fault cuts to the core of their relationship problem… Leon and Isobel are nearing the critical point of a long space journey. Leon relaxes, watching a hologram of blue skies and recalling a holiday he and Isobel had – but doesn’t remember one of the features she draws attention to, a vase with a white lily. The purpose of their expedition is to investigate a comet. Perhaps because of his fractiousness, Leon sets a flight path that Isobel considers dangerous, and the ship is damaged in the process of its exploration. Buoyed by the success of their trip, Leon and Isobel discuss what they’ll do when they return to Earth. Isobel gets a word wrong, and it becomes apparent there’s something is amiss – she is a holographic companion for Leon, based on the persona of a former lover, and is suffering from the same fault as the ship’s other systems. Isobel insists that Leon reboot her, but he is reluctant to do so since it will wipe her out.
A down-on-his-luck lawyer awakes in a doorless room to find he’s been selected to negotiate on behalf of the human race.
A developer of a device which allows the re-experience of recorded memories, becomes obsessive about the last recollections of his late wife. In a devastated world, Yonatan, the developer of a device which allows the re-experience of recorded memories, becomes obsessive about the last recollections of his late wife. When it’s time to move to a safer place and leave the memories behind, Yonatan holds on to the remnants of the past and refuses to face the harsh reality.
Lunatique is a sci-fi short film about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.
Two evil Henchmen are sent to bury a coffin in the woods. Who or what does it contain? That’s out of their pay grade. Hench follows a pair of charismatic, but extremely ordinary Henchmen. Despite living in a world of Super Heroes and Villains they are caught up in the same domestic problems as the rest of us. These men are never humanized in films, always seen but never heard. Hench gives them a voice – whether they have anything worth saying, is up to you to decide.
An easy-going young professional wakes up hanging upside down in an unfamiliar warehouse with no recollection of how he got there. As he tries to escape, survive and piece together what happened, he begins to uncover a nightmarish plot involving him and his loved ones. Part science-fiction, part noir-ish thriller, ‘Shift’ is a whirlwind ride through fear, panic and paranoia that shows both the power and the pitfalls of our basest instincts.
Franklin's Brain is a short, character driven sci-fi about an individual desperate to find meaning in his life, many years after his death. Set late in the 21st Century, reclusive Tom lives and works alone on a small scrap yard; his only companion, Franklin, is a box containing the thoughts and memories of a man born 1990. Obsessed by the mystery of his own death, Franklin asks Tom to dig up his bones where a clue to his death may lie. The desperate search to find meaning in our lives is explored through the dysfunctional, yet co-dependent, friendship between the two hopeless outsiders’ story.
In a war-torn land of man vs. robot, a young runaway slave searching for his father must ally with a broken and battle-scarred war-robot or be hunted down by his brutal overseers. When 11-year-old runaway slave Wei Zhang finds Red — a broken-down war robot — he’s terrified. But the unlikely pair quickly learn their only chance of survival is to work together to escape the brutal tyrants who’ve turned them each into slaves. More than that, they realize they’ve both lost everything to a war that wasn’t their choice, and grow to depend on and even care for each other.
From Brazil comes this short about The Cosmos. Mankind. The meaning of Life. Come play with us.
Scientists have discovered a way to record dreams, and those with ulterior motives waste no time exploiting those whose dreams are the most powerful.
A French-language animated cartoon made in San Francisco. An astronaut journeys to a distant planet where the inhabitants may be too busy looking at hand-held devices to notice a visitor from another world.
A man struggles with the health care system and his own feelings of guilt when he checks his 100-year-old, estranged mother into Gateway TransCare — a memory care facility that uploads elderly minds into computer data banks. Simon is a middle-aged, successful businessman grappling with the difficult decision of what is best for his ailing parent. After suffering a stroke a few years ago, Jessica is wheelchair bound and can only communicate through a text-to-speech synthesizer. She lives alone and is descending rapidly into dementia. The strained relationship of a stubborn, forgetful mother and her uptight son is put to the test. LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT blurs the lines between memory and oblivion, parent and child, human soul and the spirit of technology.
This proof of concept acts as a taste into a cold diesel soaked world where an impending disaster looms. Facing total extinction, a military operation turns to the stars in order to relocate the entire human race. During the exodus, one man is sent to rescue his former comrade after she mysteriously disappears while executing a covert operation off world.
Bobby, a middle-aged outdoorsman living on a lonely farm, looks after his young sheltered nephew for the weekend. Meanwhile, bears discover fire – causing a remarkable series of events for Bobby's family in this sci-fi dramedy set in rural America. Based on the short story by Terry Bisson.
When Daniel’s superintelligent AI, ‘Counselor’ (Siri on steroids), finds out that he’s been dreaming about one of the girls in his virtua-class, Counselor persuades him to ask her out on a date the only way she knows how: by convincing him that if he doesn’t go he will, according to statistical probabilities, kill himself. It’s a tall order for a guy who hasn’t left his apartment in 42 days and is more than happy to stay at home with his 2025 technology.
Want more Automata? Find out how Van Alan and his team were able to turn the Penny Arcade into a live action series. Watch Doug Jones in the studio giving voice to Carl Swangee in the "Making Of Automata: The Series."
Did you know the automatons in Automata: The Series were all digitally done in post-production? Watch this behind-the-scenes look at how Van Alan and his team were able accomplish such a realistic look in his series.
Through pharmaceutical experimentation, Dr. Louis W has developed an opiate that can put an end to the rising suicide rates plaguing a desolate yet fast-approaching future. ‘Terminally Happy’ begins in the middle of Louis’s final experimentation – on himself.
A 140 year old woman, sustained by a mobile life support chair, must come to terms with the reality of death.
When a watch repairman acquires an antique pocket watch that can control time, he decides to use it to achieve his dreams. His plans soon become sinister when he learns he isn’t the only one with the knowledge of the pocket watch.
"Magenta Sky" is a creative collaboration between musician ZHU and sci-fi channel DUST directed by Jeff Vash. Something between music video and sci-fi short film. The collaboration is part of the new album release "Ringos Desert "out September 7th, 2018. The song will be a special bonus track on the album's forthcoming vinyl release.
After a mysterious encounter in the woods, a man meets a singer in a bar who has had a mysterious encounter of her own with the same mysterious light.
Mr.Rêvus prepares the dreams of mankind. In his nightly routine one momentous mistake happens which is the dawn of a big adventure. Night by night we are kidnapped to the most ludicrous worlds: we dream. The inventor of all these dream worlds is in the center of attention in the shortfilm: "The Tale of Mr. Rêvus". In his nightly routine one momentous mistake happens to him which is the dawn of an big adventure: the dreams of man become reality in the shape of weird creatures. Even the dream of Mr. Rêvus becomes reality and tries to make friends with him. But the crazed dreams threaten the world and so Mr. Rêvus has to set out on a journey to restore the order of dream and reality. Unfortunately this means that his dream has to go too... The illustrative computer animated short film tells about friendship, hope and how our dream world can go to pieces by accident.
When in 2089 humans become an out-of-date concept, rebellious Luc would rather die than integrate into A.I. But when she meets robot Azul, the idea of upgrading herself suddenly sounds tempting.
In the near future, an injured soldier returns home with advanced prosthetics to replace an arm and leg lost in combat, and must reconnect with family. Set in the very near future, an injured soldier is fitted with bio-robotic prosthetics to replace limbs lost in combat. Upon returning home, he finds society laced with a deep resentment towards robotics. This young, bionic man -- at odds with the very country he protected -- struggles to reconnect with himself, his family, and the very idea of what it means to be human.
In the turmoil of a mighty thunderstorm, the strange light appears in the middle of an unknown alien desert. The spacemen is being beamed down to the planetary surface, being left on his own.
Outsider George is pressured into taking a pill that lets him breathe underwater, but when the pill won’t wear off and George can’t breath out of water, he and his ‘best friend’ Joe must figure out what to do next.
A young couple's relationship falls apart, over and over again, revealing the strange, harsh truth behind what's been happening to them. Chris, a young man, goes through the experience of murdering his girlfriend's lover over and over again, until finally deciding not to. As he makes this choice, the world around him falls apart, revealing an advanced prison cell inside which he's been locked for years, now and old man, as punishment for his crime. There, he has been forced to relive his violent act on a loop, in the hopes that his subconscious would "change its mind" and therefore be eligible for redemption.
Prospect is the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl on a toxic alien planet. She and her father hunt for precious materials, aiming to strike it rich. When the father is attacked by a roving bandit, the daughter must take control. Prospect was later made into a feature-length film starring Pedro Pascal.
Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him... at least not for now.
In the wake of a Second Korean War, the North and South unify to create one Unified Korea. Milo, a disgraced veteran of the war with a troubled past finds work as a negotiator with the HYUN company, the new leader in post-war military technology. While at a bar, he receives notice that an illegal drone has been spotted inside an underground Busan Market not far from his location. The team enters the market to find Milo has been waiting for them at the bar. Richter, the team’s young squad leader feels Milo is unfit to do his job, leaving the rest of the unit to question Milo’s capability. Richter moves on with the operation inside the market as Milo begins to realize they have all been set up for an ambush. As the mission unravels, Milo’s grip on reality weakens, with memories of his lost child resurfacing and putting the entire team in danger.
Two brothers caught in a time loop must traverse a series of maze-like events in order to prevent a catastrophic fire from occurring.
A scientist with a passion for magic gets more than he bargains for when performing a new card trick.
In a war-ravaged world recognizable as the ruins of our own, a woman is haunted by memories of a better time. But she lives in an era that has chosen to forget its history, and remembering is a crime.
Two strangers, a woman and a man, are haunted by a recurring dream they seem to share night after night. Their illusory time together in the dream is more freeing than anything in waking life. She has not told him that in reality, she is a paramedic who discovered his unconscious body at the scene of an accident.
Set during the Great American Eclipse, this is a story about the sacrifices we make for love and the intensity of a looming moment that can change everything. This short Stars Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) & Tom Cullen (Knightfall).
After biological life has passed from existence, our machines try to restart it with the pieces we have left behind. On an anonymous assembly line, a creature is built from steel and bone and sent off. Making his way through an old world that is dying and a new world struggling to be born, he begins to sense that he may have a part to play in the evolution of his imperfect kind. This film was animated by one person over ten years in four different cities.
In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father’s device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.
Get an inside look at the new feature film PROSPECT from the filmmakers Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell - starring Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, Narcos), Jay Duplass (Search Party, Transparent), and Sophie Thatcher.
The world of PROSPECT was built from the ground up. Carpenters, designers, and other handy men and women built the sets, props, costumes, and more to fully immerse viewers. Take a look Inside PROSPECT as we explore the the makings of Cee's Thrower.
The world of PROSPECT was built from the ground up. Carpenters, designers, and other handy men and women built the sets, props, costumes, and more to fully immerse viewers. Take a look Inside PROSPECT as we explore the the makings of the helmets.
Damon and Cee land on the Green Moon in a rugged drop pod that has seen its share of travel into the fringes of deep space. “Inside Prospect” takes an in-depth look at how the pod progressed into the menacing vehicle seen in the film.
For Wanda and Zach, Future Families is a lifetime opportunity: a virtual parenting system that gives their baby access to a better life. But they soon realize this technology may come at a higher cost. For first-time parents Wanda and Zach, Future Families is a lifetime opportunity: a virtual childcare system that gives their baby access to a better life. Sponsored by the company where Wanda works, this technology allows her to leave her son connected to a virtual version of herself while she works additional hours. The possibilities are endless: the baby can learn anything that Artificial Intelligence teaches him, has medical support and is always taken care of by the virtual mother. Who hasn’t believed that technology would make their lives easier—only to find there’s often a downside? Wanda will soon realize that her company has a secret agenda, and this technology may come at a higher cost.
In a near future where world humanity has been deprived of closeness of each other through technological communication advancements, a small boy, Timmy full of curiosity goes on a journey to learn the value of interpersonal communication, human emotions and expressing them through discovering the underground art of theater.
In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When her company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again. In the near future, a company called Allocorp is responsible for telling citizens of Los Angeles where they are allowed to live based on their income level. Ennis Lineau works in the customer service division, where she spends her days being screamed at by dissatisfied customers forced to live in terrible housing. Ennis lives a solitary existence at work and at home in her employee housing, until Allocorp dissolves its entire customer service division in favor of automation. Ennis is forced to move out of her apartment and into one of Allocorp’s worst tenements. She fears she’ll be submitted to the horrors she hears about at work, but finds herself living with two caring roommates: post-doc botany researcher Leda, and mechanic-turned-construction worker Al. Ennis continues to serve out her last week of work while bonding with Leda and Al. Leda invites Ennis to her research lab, where Ennis rediscovers her love of plants: practically nonexistent in this desolate future. Soon, however, Leda finds out that Ennis works at Allocorp and is disgusted that Ennis could work there, a place which has ruined both her livelihood and Al’s, and neglect to admit it. On her last day, Ennis shows up at work only to find that the company is kicking her out before even letting her go upstairs. She calls Customer Service to find that a recording of her voice is now being used on the other end. Finally, a lifetime of repressed emotions crescendos and Ennis breaks down in her car. She arrives home to find Al and Leda gardening on the roof, a haven of nature in the cold city. She apologizes for the error of her ways, and Leda forgives her by giving her a seed to plant in the garden.
After he arrives to a time travel agency "Yes, Today!", a naive hard rock fan must fight his way through their bureaucracy in order to to get to a concert of Mötley Crüe in 1985. It's 2018. Martin, a 30 year old hard rock fan, who desperately wants to get to a concert of Mötley Crüe in 1985 and become the fifth member of his favorite band, goes to a time travel agency "Yes, Today!", but stumbles upon bureaucracy of the enterprise, and eventually gets sent to a desert in the 19th century.
Dave’s world is turned upside-down when his flat is robbed. As he hunts for the person who turned his sitting room over and stole his possessions, he discovers that the answer is right under his nose. This fantasy adventure sees Dave find himself on an extraordinary journey through the worlds of quantum physics, haberdashery and the Fabric of Space and Time, all in search of a mobile phone.
A grandfather living across the country from his family begrudgingly agrees to use virtual reality in an attempt to connect with his neglected grandson. To the grandfather's surprise, these two family members from entirely different generations must connect inside of a violent video game. And together - while fighting for their survival in the game - they each have to help the other overcome the loneliness in their real lives.
A pregnant couple argue as they wait for their appointment in an advanced genetics clinic, in full disagreement about the steps the government has taken against over-population.
Leon, a police officer, vows never to lose a child again, after losing his own child a year ago. When Max, a young boy being subjected to brutal experiments, comes in contact with Leon, he soon finds himself doing whatever it takes to protect Max from a terrifying force determined to harness Max’s extraordinary ability to bend time and space, which could change the fabric of our universe and beyond.
The future begins... with her. On the spaceship Cradle, a lonely teenager dreams of a home she has never known. When an accident cripples the ship she must race the clock to unlock the secrets of her past and discover her future. Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life in space on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples the craft and seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to self-destruction Cradle’s computer, System, assumes control of the ship and refuses to perform the life saving medical procedure that her father desperately needs. Whilst trying to outwit System to save her dad, Eade discovers the shocking truth of her existence and must face her uncertain future armed with the knowledge that her life in space is not as it seems.
In the distant future, two survivors break in to an abandoned bar on a mission to steal a highly valuable asset and change their fortunes; however the asset, an android barman will not be taken down easily.
A high profile government agent is called in to witness the autopsy of an extra terrestrial after it's spacecraft crash lands on earth. In a desperate act of compassion, the agent abducts the alien and runs through time and space to save its life and return it to the mothership. But in this case...time and space is a chaotic trespassing through every random retro sci-fi film that we could cram in to three minutes. Theres over 40 individual references - see how many you can spot.
A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO.
A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible. Ethan Kane, a NASA Astronaut and decorated pilot, has recently retired from active duty to spend more time with his wife and young son. As he tries to adjust to a quieter life on the ground, he’s approached to fly one last mission...testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft. While the world watches, Kane takes The Longshot on its maiden voyage.
A street smart smuggler Marky is on the run from a bounty hunter and his infected henchmen. Marky flees to the only family he's ever known, former superhero Ma Jones AKA Thunder. Taking place in a dystopian future where melanin deficient people are infected with a deadly nano virus. The nanotechnology was created to protect people from the harmful side effects of global warming but something went wrong. Those with melanin were not effected as the melanin proved to be a protective factor. People of color are now being hunted and harvested for their melanocytes cells, which are a key ingredient to a vaccine for the infection.
When eleven year old Amy finds an old eighties video game magazine she dials the phone number displayed on the back, and in a strange cosmic glitch gets connected to Caesar Spinone, a video game call center employee in the year 1989.
A hacker named Quinn infiltrates a cult, who are slowly killing off its members, in order to save her estranged sister, Harper. Untogethered is a sci-fi/action/drama about a hacker named Quinn who seeks to rescue her terminally ill sister, Harper, who is deeply involved cult named Sacred Paradise, who claim to grant their who claim to grant their members access to the mythical paradise called Evila. Quinn infiltrates the cult and ventures into a virtual reality world to find her sister. With difficulty, Quinn convinces Harper to follow her as they traverse the fantasy world while being chased down by virtual security and the cult leader, Mother, in order to find their way back to reality.
With death never more than a misstep away, two hunters must decide whether to embrace the inevitable or fight against their fate. For Hunters, victory is the only alternative to death. When Irix (Miranda Heath) returns with a new trophy, her kill has already attracted dangerous attention from rival Hunters. With the seconds counting down until the next hunt, her companion Ashak (Dan McGrath) claims to have a way out for both of them. Surrounded by enemies and with another brutal hunt about to begin, the two Hunters must decide whether to make do and embrace the inevitable or take up the fight against their fate.
In a world where the ground is lost to legend, a traumatized fighter pilot must defend her floating city from mysterious, godlike monsters beneath the clouds. SONG IN THE SKY is a web series pilot about loss, trauma, and the struggle of coping with anxiety, framed against a fantastical backdrop of dogfights, monster battles, and existential mystery. Set in a world where the ground "fell away" centuries ago, it tells the story of Angela, a fighter pilot struggling to overcome the death of her girlfriend, and hunt for a secret that can save her dying city from falling into the Lovecraftian abyss below.
Take Us Home. After years of waiting for a signal from home, Takumi and his toy robot companion receive a message that they will be returning to their home planet. Suddenly he's faced with a choice to follow his cosmic destiny or pursue the love of his life here on earth.
When Jason's companion suddenly vanishes before his eyes, he realizes the world around him may be starting to unravel.
When a man takes a mysterious street drug to repair his injured body, a shocking transformation consumes him, threatening his very existence.
After waking up in a bizarre facility, Anna is forced to work together with her literal past lives in order to escape. Anna wakes up in a strange white room. She has 60 seconds to escape, and when the timer hits zero she drops dead, only to reawaken in the same room, alongside a shadowy impression of her previous self. Stuck on repeat, Anna must think ahead and learn from her mistakes to solve a series of puzzles and escape this dystopian maze with the help of her past lives.
A young woman goes back to redo a broken relationship with a lost love. Can they change...or will they be stuck in an endless cycle of repeating the past?
A sci-fi thriller about a woman who can never get over the child she lost. Caitlin lives alone grieving her missing son. But an encounter with a stranger causes her to question her solitary world and she soon learns the stranger knows more about her son than she could possibly imagine.
In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy. In the distant future, James is the last human on Earth. He is raised and protected by a humanoid robot, the Machine, who brings him up on a strange composite religion described in a handheld device called The Manual. The Manual's teachings fuse aspects of old-world religion and incorporate robots as spiritual beings in the afterlife, alongside and equal to humans. The man wrestles with loneliness and depression while the search for other humans becomes more and more futile. As his faith in The Manual is shaken, he sets out to test one of The Manual's core beliefs: reincarnation to the next life in the city of the Creator. What he finds could be described terribly as exactly that.
A recreational virtual reality user falls victim to the malevolent nature of her personal A.I. system. Jane, a disillusioned office worker, finds solace in her recreational virtual reality console. As she increasingly assumes the life of her virtual avatar, the malevolent nature of her personal AI system begins to appear, with macabre consequences.
Written by Benjamin (an LSTM RNN Artificial Intelligence) The first film entirely written by Artificial Intelligence. Possibly some sort of love triangle? Better ask Benjamin.
A surrealist look at the romantic comedy and how each choice creates a new world. Ivy and Dave are totally hitting it off... until she says the wrong thing and completely freaks him out. Typical. But tonight's no ordinary night. There's a glitch in the Matrix, déjà vu in the air, and Ivy gets the chance to see how things will turn out if she plays the dating game differently.
(Japanese with English subtitles) A pair of astronauts are trapped on orbital space station because of nuclear war on the earth below. They lost contact with earth, all attempts to make connection with base or with anybody failed without answer. All that they can do is to try to survive somehow together...
An eager 12-year-old boy and his friends secretly travel back in time in the hopes of unraveling the mystery surrounding his mother's untimely death before the rightful owner of the machine realizes it's gone missing. If a time machine powered by lightning isn't dangerous enough, Charlie and his friends are playing a game of Russian Roulette whenever they decide to travel through time and space. With no way to control when or where they end up, it's anyone's guess as to whether they'll be dancing to the real Elvis or running from a T-rex. For one brave and earnest 12-year-old boy, Charlie, the risk is worth the reward. He wants nothing more than to go back to a time when his mother is alive again. His fiercely loyal best friends, Puck and Vincent, are always up for the adventure. But after what happened the last time they traveled, they swore a sacred oath to end time travel for good. When a particularly haunting storm rolls through town, Charlie's desire tp travel gets the best of him. But his friends know him all too well. They bust him at Charlie's tree house, their preferred place to travel from, before he can take off. Unfortunately, for the "Three Musketeers,' Pucks blabbermouth has brought some uninvited guests along for the ride. With the secret finally out, the group is forced to travel with the impulsive and audacious 13-year-old Maggie and her 18 year old meathead brother Bruiser. When Charlie's father, Jason is awoken by their dog Sunny, he realizes Charlie's gone missing. As he and Sunny race to trace Charlie's steps through the rain, he notices the tree house as it explodes with the mysterious electromagnetic energy of the activated time machine. But before he can reach the kids, he notices an ominous hooded figure watching the tree house from the dark forest nearby. Tree House Time Machine is a proof of concept short intended for an episodic television format. Set in the 90's, it captures the in-demand nostalgia of that era and is
A woman is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?
A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside. ("Daisy Belle" by William Wall)
A new law mandating the public’s use of nanotechnology meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of a dangerous hardware upgrade. In the near future, advances in biotechnology have bridged the gap between man and machine. Developed by ASPIRE, a seemingly benevolent corporation inspired by the likes of Apple and Google, “Nanos” are microscopic, probe-like machines that have the ability to interact with human DNA and alter expressions of the genome within seconds of entering the bloodstream. For the purpose of health or “bio-maintenance,” they have the ability to alter the body’s autonomic systems and metabolic rates, regulate fat and/or muscle production, and even slow the aging process. They also allow for fun, non-essential “bio-mods,” such as the ability to change one’s hair color, raise one’s adrenaline, or even enhance one’s pleasure during sex. ZOLEE, a member of an underground network of hackers who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of the government mandated “Nano 2.0,” intends to steal classified data pertaining to Aspire’s new government contract. But in order to do so, she must access the Aspire Nano Network using the login credentials of MAX ROTH, a corrupt agent with the Biotechnology Crime Division (BCD). His connection to the Aspire Network is biometrically encrypted, accessible only via a key that’s docked to his arm--a hardlined connection to his own Nanos. Posing as a prostitute, Zolee hopes to seduce Roth (a known deviant with pension for Nano app-enhanced sex), distracting and ultimately subduing him so that she may hack into his account and steal the sensitive data. This proves to be easier said than done during an intense game of cat and mouse, leading to an exciting showdown that pits Zolee against the sadistic BCD Agent. ("Nano" by Mike Manning)
With the help of an experimental technology, a young woman returns to Sonoma County in order to re-live an important encounter. ("Amanda_Test 1" by Ben Gansky, Nat Moonhill & Veronica Moonhill)
In a world with limited oxygen... How much will you pay to breathe? Set in a future Manhattan, where even the air we breathe has a price, oxygen dealer Winston Willis faces off with a mysterious buyer who seems to know Winston's darkest secret. Winston doesn’t just sell oxygen... he grows it. ("Grow" by Micah Levin)
With Earth on the brink of an inexorable alien invasion, can one desperate young girl call for help before its too late? The story opens with our protagonist witnessing the beginnings of first contact. Next, we see her running through the woods in an effort to stay hidden from the multiplying alien force. As night falls over the forest she is hiding in we learn more about what has brought her to this place. She explains that her father learnt too much about the visitors and now he has gone. We watch as she builds a fire and prepares herself for an ancient ceremony of communication. She explains that thanks to our obsession with the material we were defenceless against the alien visitors. By neglecting our spiritual development we failed to take our place amongst the real Galactic Community. As the film concludes we see her begin the ceremony. She is alone, desperate and feels stupid but she has to try to get through before Earth is lost. As the ceremony develops something begins to happen. ("Cover Your Eyes" by Simon Alveranga)
A likeness of humans, robots are a reality in the future. The only thing that distinguishes us from them is that we can still control them - but for how long if they have assumed the characteristics that seemed to identify us as human beings? How long? if we exceed by them in physical force. The promise is a short film that looks at the future reality of a world in which those things created by man are a step to be confused with us. ("The Promise" by Erwin Jaquez)
Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India away from their hedonistic and disconnected lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos. A generation are born knowing that the end of the world will come in the next quarter century. This generation have now come of age. A young woman, Cerys, sick of her soulless life, encourages her friend Gwilym to travel with her to India, where people are celebrating the Apocalypse. In her search for meaning, Cerys takes Gwilym to an expat commune, run by an enigmatic leader. Will she find what she is looking for? ("Pendulum" by Lauren Cooney)
Sometimes to work out what is beautiful about life we must look to someone who exists to work. Tergo cleans. He cleans up after you and me. He picks up the mess we discard but yet remains invisible to all around him. Tergo’s a lost soul in the London urban machine. He’s ready to leave the life he leads. Tergo is the fifth short film from London based film collective Pallas Pictures and their first to have an entirely CG lead character. A labour of love and devotion by director and Pallas Pictures founder Charles Willcocks, it is the existential tale of a cleaning robot lost amongst the everyday drain of work in London. In a city of millions of strangers all living digital relationships it’s a modern day fable for anybody who might be lonely and caught up in the rat race of life. ("Tergo" by Charles Willcocks)
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past. ("Archetype" by Aaron Sims)
An unfinished game of hide and seek becomes a race against the clock for Liam. In a futuristic rural village filled with archaic machines, he must become a ruthless vigilante to find his missing sister. Liam's British robot housekeeper thinks he's a loser. A true slacker. But his younger sister Ana doesn't care. She loves her brother no matter how flawed. Liam does his best to take care of her while their father is away working in the mines up on Mars. Things go sour when Ana suddenly goes missing. Putting posters on telephone poles and waiting for the authorities to do something is not enough for Liam. For the first in his life, he decides to take control. Night by night, he slowly becomes a masked vigilante hell bent on finding her. With a single crowbar strapped to his back using magnets, he forces his way into the criminal underworld in order to extract information from anyone that crosses his path. A tale of violence, redemption and robots. ("Tonight I Strike" by Dan Gaud)
An intelligence agent spying on a nearby apartment building gets his observations terribly wrong. An intelligence services spy (MI5, CIA, etc) spies on inhabitants of a nearby apartment building. Despite the inhabitants doing things which are mostly normal and harmless, he gets his observations terribly wrong, ultimately ending everyone in a heap of trouble. Mixed into his observations are psychedelic daydreams; pataphorical fizzles, which take each and every apartments’ setting into a whole new universe. Told in a quirky and tongue-in-cheek way, the futuristic drama comments on data protection and privacy in modern society. "Tower-D" by Kent Hugo
A space bounty hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster. "The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9!" by Jake Armstrong
Obsessed by a mysterious voice message, astronaut Meredith will face its paradoxical condition in order to stay connected to her humanity.
Aeranger is a sci-fi short film about a space traveler who crash lands into Earth while desperately searching for a surrogate planet with the proper resources to save her people & home planet.
In the future, a team of astronauts are sent on a ten year journey to a distant planet to find new life. On their way, they encounter a large, abandoned spaceship that is drifting in the orbit of a mysterious planet. They board the ship with anticipation of the great discoveries to uncover inside. However, they do not know what terrible secret this spacecraft keeps -- a nightmarish threat which is far bigger and scarier than anything they could have imagined.
Set 6000 years the future, Robbie charts the existential reflections of an aging robot drifting alone through space on the last of his battery life.
A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship. "Pulsar" by Aurora Fearnley
A desperate computer scientist struggling to fund her anti-depression AI application faces her toughest challenge yet. After losing her boyfriend to depression, a computer scientist creates and anti-depression AI application and looks for funding to complete it. Following a string of failed interviews, she enters her final interview which turns into a bizarre challenge of lie detection. "The Lie Game" by Jyothi Kalyan Sura
A quiet evening at home takes a bizarre turn when a man goes to investigate strange noises in his yard. "Occupant" by Peter Cilella
Set against the space-race canvas of the 1960's, Anomaly is inspired by the traditional Christmas Nativity and explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of two-thousand years ago. It is a story about relationships that intertwine around an unprecedented astronomical event, as a couple navigate life's realities at a time of unfathomable significance. "Anomaly" by Dan Difelice & Salomon Ligthelm Filmed on location in NYC, Maine, Kansas, and Colorado, the film features Christian Cooke, Lexi Johnson, Andrew Sensenig, and Anthony Lopez.
A story of emotional weight one carries within, and the hardships when striving to rid oneself of it.
16 year old Alex hasn’t seen his Uncle Brian since his Dad’s funeral. A troubled kid, he’s been kicked out of school and is now forced into doing a work placement with Brian’s council road repair crew. Alex can’t believe he has to spend the day with these bickering slobs, but when an emergency call leads him down into a basement below the street, he realizes there’s a lot more to this crew, and his Uncle, than he first thought.
A man's eagerness to deliver his consciousness and unconsciousness in the hands of an application for the sake of a better life. While running on the street, running away from something or someone, Sercan suddenly finds himself in a living room of an apartment, in some kind of interrogation by Caner, a person he does not know. As Caner directs the questions, Sercan is faced with the things he has done; his life. Rather than telling Sercan the answer to why he in this room, he skillfully wants Sercan to find it out himself. He tells Sercan that what he did yesterday is related with him being in the room and thereafter. Sercan talks about not having found the happiness he dreams of with his girlfriend Derya, the love and trust towards his father, the new job interview he has to attend during the day, and the interest he has towards Selin, a friend of Derya. As the conversation continues, Sercan suddenly sees that it is himself that is talking to him and understands that it has been himself who was asking the questions from the beginning. However, his alter ego facing him explains the truth as his confusion continues. He tells that Sercan is in fact a new generation hologram, created by an application named UmeetU and that he has up to date access to all information and interaction of the user on all social platforms. The objective of the UmeetU application is to collect all information that will enable the user to be better, more productive and happier during this mutual session and to ensure that he can experience the day optimally, energetically and with higher concentration by knowing the potential situations and attitudes he must refrain from.
In the near future, an old man works alone in his garage – click-click clicking the hours away on an old laptop computer. His name is Hugo. His frail body and wispy hair belie the concentration in his eyes… He’s making something… Some great project… It is a cold and gloomy future – or perhaps that is just his perception. Mail arrives via automated drone; its animated smiles and digitised platitudes can’t burn away the carbon grey clouds or disguise the filthy towering skyscrapers. The drone is Hugo’s only visitor. It brings a letter for his dead wife. He returns to his work, as he always does. Today is special though. Today, Hugo will test his creation. Today, the not-too-distant future will become the not-too-distant past.
They're a brand new, state of the art listening device that will transport and immerse the listener like never before - and they're totally free. Mystic Sound are giving away their brand new ear phones, and no one can believe it. But when the ear phones are connected and activated, the process starts, and the nightmare begins.
An unknown rock band struggles with a radioactive energy in their music that blows up amps, liquefies tape decks, and starts electrical fires. On the eve of their first (and possibly last) show, they must decide whether to risk life, limb, and legacy for a 1 AM slot on a Tuesday. It could change everything...or nothing at all.
In the near future, a woman must make a life changing decision after a mind bending procedure.
One night, a teenage girl disappears without a trace. Years later, her friend returns home and finds himself being beckoned back into those woods - the last place she was seen alive. An atmospheric sci-fi about the archetypal lost girl.
On election night, a janitor feels cheated out of a life he might have lived when his own clone becomes the President. He goes on a bender to seek justice, encountering new forms of prejudice, dismissal, and classism. In a society where the morality around cloning is dividing the masses, physically looking like the newly elected President has its own dangers…
In a world where cutting edge robots are coveted, a fledgling human technician is torn between pursuing his feelings towards an outdated android and placating his abusive, android-aversive father. At a time where futuristic androids are exploding in popularity, Loong, an abused youth, repairs an old and obsolete android, TX-59. The pair quickly forms an uncanny chemistry―a result of their dejected and undesirable circumstances. As their close bond gradually transcends that of man and machine, Loong is increasingly tormented by his crippled father, a major android detractor. With his two most precious relationships at odds with one another, Loong is forced to make a decision―romance or responsibility?
The dawn of artificially intelligent androids is upon us, and one man must choose between synthetic freedom and the future of humankind. Hard Reset recently won the Advanced Imaging Society Lumiere Award for Best 3D Live Action Short Film of the year. Other honorees included Star Wars The Force Awakens, The Martian, and Pixar’s Inside Out. Hard Reset is the first 3D stereoscopic graduate thesis film created in partnership with UT3D, the country's first stereoscopic certificate production program at a public university.
Lifelong friends and scientists Nate, Chloe and Bernard believe they are safely creating A.I. within virtual reality, until their creation, Kate, learns it's at risk of being shut down.
In a world where sleep has become a crime, special responders known as ‘wakes’ are tasked with incarcerating sleepers. But when one ‘wake’ gives in to the world of dreams, she is forced into the possibility that she may become the next target. "UU" written and directed by Jeremiah Hammerling
'Deliverance is initialized'. Set in the future It tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a mysterious 'temple like' room and must figure out what her purpose is there. This in turn leads to her memories being unlocked and the true purpose of the temple, the strange sentient machines that surround her, and ultimately her final destination.
A Lovecraftian tale of frontiers and madness. When Abdel accepts a night watchman job for Francis, he'll soon discover the obscure secret lurking in his garage.
After a mysterious electro-magnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive. Zero is the story of Alice who lives with her paranoid prepper father, John. All the preparation in the world can’t save her father from the inevitable cardiac arrest that follows when an E.M.P. disables his pacemaker. Alice is left alone in a barricaded farmhouse in the English countryside. But the ghost of her father lives on through the strict rules he gave her: trust no-one; never let anyone in the house; and never, ever, leave. All Alice has to do is follow these rules to the letter and she will survive but her resolve will be pushed to its limits when a wounded man knocks on her door...
An inventor on the brink of fulfilling his life's work finally faces the truth behind the machine he is building. Director's Statement: The film was produced for the Sci-Fi London Festival’s 48 Hour Film Challenge, where the festival provides a brief to over 300 filmmakers in the UK (a prop, a title and a line of dialogue) and gives them 48 hours to complete and submit their film. INTERLUDE won the Challenge with the Best Film Award, and was made entirely in 43 hours from initial brief, to script writing, prep, production and post production.
During a sleepover, four 9-year-old girls obsessed with space embark on a secret mission in their cardboard rocket. When Dad returns home, what will become of their mission? Filmmaker's Statement: 'Space Girls' is a celebration of the power of imagination, the importance of STEM education and girl power! I wanted to make a fun adventure film about the wonders of space & the importance of space travel. The innocent wonder of childhood – where playtime feels real, alive & magical – felt like an ideal setting in which to explore these ideas. I was conscious about wanting the protagonists of the film to be a band of girls. The girls are smart, confident & determined – they are obsessed with science & space & want to study hard to achieve their dreams. Geena Davis’ research has compellingly shown that female characters in kids’ media are often underdeveloped, sidelined or solely there as a plot device. It is important that we promote female agency & science positive goals for the next generation. Inspired by the adage – “If she can see it, she can be it” – I want ‘Space Girls’ to promote & inspire young girls to dream big & work hard so that they can achieve anything they set their minds to. Even becoming an astronaut & travelling to outer space!
"Rendezvous with Mars" is a film about a young girl's journey from her humble beginnings in the city of Bombay to becoming an astronaut en route to Mars. The film seeks to find a window into a human heart in conflict over its dreams and the act of being severed from everything it holds dear. The protagonist’s childhood is a metaphor for human civilization itself - with her curiosity and gumption. She grows dreaming about having the stars in her hands to actually going on a voyage beyond our planet in her adulthood. Her story involves her recognizing the childhood dream that we are all meant to be carrying.
Imagine the sun, by looking at a light bulb. Rusty machines living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light, keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and he has a plan for that.
In a next-generation prison, inmates are “corrected” over a few days by an A.I. linked to their consciousness. Cyrus, a lonely parole officer, becomes obsessed with Alice – a sociopathic inmate that the A.I. seems unable to reform. In a future prison, inmates are not locked up for years – they’re connected to an accelerated simulation that allows them to serve their entire sentence in a few days. What these inmates don't know is that before they're released, they undergo a "Parole Simulation" that seems utterly real – and their moral resolve is tested in their most private moments. In this way, only the truly reformed are deemed "corrected" and released back into society. Cyrus, a lonely parole technician, becomes obsessed with Alice – an alluring and sociopathic inmate that the system seems unable to reform. While most inmates are corrected and released quickly, Alice has failed nearly a thousand Parole Simulations. Cyrus tries convincing Alice to undergo a procedure that will radically alter her personality, so she can finally be corrected and released. But Alice has her own plans. Despite having her memory wiped between Parole Simulations, she gets to Cyrus – seducing him and chipping away at his sanity … until it's not clear who has the upper hand.
A man finds himself on a mysterious planet trapped in a game of death.
An interstellar mission crash lands on an abandoned earth now devoid of life and water. In a race against time and resources they must not only survive the elements but face what once was. A century after Earth was abandoned, a returning salvage mission crashes on the planet and maroons the surviving astronauts in a wasteland, devoid of life and water. In a race against time and resources, the remaining crew must search for a deserted launch facility and soon discover that their greatest threat isn’t the environment, but each other.
A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man that he claims is his former self.
Two middle-schoolers try an experiment at home involving ping pong balls, red light, and white noise. Best friends Henry and Josh attempt an experiment at home that they learned about in school. After stealing a red light bulb from the school's dark room, they cover their eyes with ping pong balls and listen to white noise in an effort to get their mind to hallucinate. After a few failed trials, Josh concedes that it's just a silly experiment. However, Henry is convinced that, with a few adjustments, it could still work. Each night after school for the next few days, Henry tinkers and perfects the parameters of his experiment. He blacks out his window, he glues the ping pong balls onto swim goggles. He adds more and more light bulbs to the array on his desk. Eventually, he builds a turbo-headset, designed to amplify all sights and sounds coming to it. When he tries the experiment for a final time, Henry goes too far before he realizes he's not coming back.
After the death of her companion, a scientist is trapped by herself on an outpost near Jupiter begins to imagine, or realize, that she is not alone after all. Mission Specialist Elizabeth Henstridge thought she knew the risks when she was selected as part of a two-person crew on an exploratory mission to Jupiter's moon Callisto. What she didn't expect, what nobody expected, was that her companion would die, leaving her alone 600 million miles from home for almost three months until the relief crew would arrive. Grief, isolation...is that all it is when she is suddenly awoken by a knock on the station door? And Mission "Control" back home isn't helping, not when they are complaining about how she handled the body of her companion, and definitely not when they start responding in real time despite the two-hour signal delay between Jupiter and Earth. When "Control" reveals that it may not be who she thinks it is, Elizabeth begins to question her sanity, and her safety.
Four men explore an abandoned research facility. Within the station unsettling signs of disorder are revealed, and in the lowest level of the facility, a chilling discovery is made.
Under the eye of an A.I. camera system, an online 'livecaster' with a volatile brand has a crisis of conscience in a future where jobs are limited and conflict is currency.
From a mysterious void, a guardian angel-like figure guides a man through his first romance. Between space and time is a dark and infinitely stretching void. Here lies The Girl, very still, curious, observing carefully. She wears a round pair of glasses and lets an hourglass run besides her. A 1960s television screen flickers to life as rock 'n' roll blasts in. She watches a teenager on a first date. He's nervous. The Girl blows at the screen just as the teenager is about to smoke a cigarette... and a gust of wind blows the cigarette out of his hand on the screen. The "Girl" is a guardian-angel like figure, gently assisting the teenager from beyond the screen. She snaps and sets romantic music. A sudden time jump in the hourglass and the next screen turns on. It's the teenager, now an adult, proposing to the very same girl he was on a date with - it's the 1980s now, and The Girl watches on a 1980s screen. The proposal goes awry when the adult trips and drops the ring into the sewer. The Girl splits the screen and the ring jumps outwards, yet as soon as she returns to the adult's world, it falls back in once again. The Girl physically shoves her arm into the screen, and she emerges with the ring, her arm covered in mud. The Girl once again returns the ring. The adult proposes; it's a yes. And finally, on a smartphone, the couple is much older now. The Girl sacrifices her own pair of glasses so that the older man may see his wife one last time. He passes away peacefully. We pull back to reveal that the screens are shaped in a massive pyramid of screens. Dozens come to life, flashing moments and memories from the man's life. Sand floated freely in the hourglass. The Girl watches in awe. In a final reveal, hundreds of other similar pyramid stacks fill the Void around her. The Girl picks up her hourglass, and she turns to guide the next person.
In the future, two women struggle for survival on a newly colonised planet. In 2131, two sisters, Rhian and Seren struggle to survive the harsh conditions of a recently colonised planet. When Seren's health takes a turn for the worse, Rhian's desperation leads her to inadvertently discover life on this strange new world. With it comes a promise for survival but at a terrifying cost.
They know your face and they are watching. Thanks to his exceptional facial recognition skills, Scott (Jacob Anderson) has been recruited to work in a secret government initiative. Under the watchful eye of his tough-talking supervisor Agent Williams (Ritu Arya), this Super Recogniser is over-worked and under pressure as he spends hours seeking terrorists and criminals captured on CCTV cameras.
A guy convinces his wife to try out a new AI technology to spice up their sex life, but gets a bit more spice than he bargained for. This short film may not feature internationally recognized A-list movie stars. But with the help of machine learning AI algorithms, our actors may seem a bit familiar. A cautionary science fiction satire, FACE SWAP is arguably the first narrative film using the “deepfakes” process as a storytelling tool.
Evan Rachel Wood and Sophia the Robot star in the short film "SophiaWorld" presented by DUST x Futurism.
Joel Fink is just another bored twenty-something looking for some excitement in an otherwise dull and uneventful life. A curious encounter outside a travel agent pulls him into an unusual world where he’s offered an even more unusual proposition.
In the near future, a young father’s morning routine is put on the fritz when he uncovers his wife’s bizarre secret, one that forces him to question his sense of self and his role in the family.
A suburban stay-at-home dad builds an autonomous robot out of his mower, but when he finds out his creation is taking over his life he sets out to destroy it.
Jeffrey Brown has built a bunker in the bottom of his garden, in preparation for world war 3, despite his friends poking fun at him the threat is very real. As the sirens sound off. He locks himself inside and braces for nuclear war. After the dust has settled and the radiation clears, Jeffrey must live out the next 3 months with only himself for company. After this time Jeffrey is ready to unlock the hatch to the outside world and witness what has become of planet Earth.
A grieving plumber seeks out a disgraced quantum physicist to rid himself of a tormenting "Hum".
A mad scientist attempts to conduct a brain transplant with the supernatural powers of his captive.
A mother's long time missing daughter begins to reach out to her across time and space. Could it be a drug induced delusion or does Kate really possess the ability to cross over?
A Roomba meets its match when encountering a new mess to clean up. "Clean Cut" by Andrew Hunt
Malcolm inherits a bank vault that contains classified government documents and an audio recording that urges him to complete a series of requests.
A young woman tries to seek shelter as those around her float inexplicably into the night sky.
In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm, and rest easy.
Trapped inside a never-ending nightmare, a cat and mouse game plays out between a man and a hellish beast lurking in the shadows.
Story based on "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Circles is a comedy/sci-fi/horror which follows a pair of paranormal investigators as they discover a string of crop circles around their small town of Totnes, Devon.
A deadly contagion. A world on the brink. A little boy alone.
In an alternate future, an idealistic teen fights to expose the secrets of a corrupt system, unaware that someone is always watching.
In this suspenseful sci-fi, an AID (Artificially Intelligent Device) by the name of CC, has been leased by a nanny agency to Lena to help care for her daughter. When a violent incident occurs between CC and Lena, an investigative team is tasked with determining exactly what happened.
A man uses holographic tools to build an idyllic world as a subconscious playground for his love.
After a painful breakup, Aaron purchases a life-size doll to serve as a replacement for the companionship he has lost. This simple solution to his relationship problem is complicated by a visit from his ex.
A woman and young boy are chased through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Battered and exhausted, they are protecting something both highly valuable and extremely dangerous.
If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?
A robot goes on a quest to find his creator in the desert lands outside his city. Not built for the harsh environment outside his city, a robot takes his chances and braves the barren landscape in a desperate attempt to find his creator. With his knee joints slowly breaking down, it’s only a matter of time before his fate will be decided.
A small, ash-collecting robot is jettisoned from a spacecraft and witnesses the collapse of the universe over trillions of years as he slowly drifts beyond outer space. Many trillions of years ago, a small maintenance robot was jettisoned into outer space. Now, as it drifts beyond the cosmos and out into the interstellar void, it becomes the only being to witness to the collapse of the known universe.
A genius hacker and his dog help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subjects of a black ops ESP test lab. PostHuman follows Terrence and his dog Nine in an adrenalized future of espionage, super science, and assassins. Terrence agrees to help Kali, an escaped test subject from a black ops ESP test lab, in her effort to free the last surviving imprisoned test subject. The assault on the lab is fast paced and intense as Terrence uses every hacker trick he knows to destroy the lab’s defenses and give Kali the opportunity to free her tortured lab mate, Benjamin. Gritty, hyperstylized, and dripping with intense images, PostHuman is NSFW, for children, or adults with no sense of adventure.
The President of the United States delivers the news of the impending end of the world while under duress.
A man tries to do his laundry, but comes across an unexpected obstacle at the laundrette. DAY ONE is a cautionary tale on automation and artificial intelligence.
In the near future, a young social worker (Sunita Mani, “Glow” & "Mr. Robot") travels to a small community to administer behavior-modifying "patches" that guarantee happiness for the wearers. She must decide what to do when a precocious girl (Audrey Bennett, “Frozen on Broadway”) refuses to accept the patch.
On Christmas Eve, a small UFO struggling to find his place in the universe follows his two mischievous friend's down to earth, whilst trying to impress and gain their acceptance he inadvertently changes Christmas forever.
When Dan Levy goes to get his snoring, pregnant wife a glass of water, he meets an alternate version of himself who has an offer this Dan might not be able to refuse.
It turns out that life as we know it is a sophisticated computer simulation. Earth, existence, and consciousness; all the design of a hyper intelligent race of aliens known as the Thesquardorians. On December the 31st, 1974, the Thesquardorians decided the simulation had run its course. This is an absurdist comedy set in a computer lab in the 1970s. Two computer technicians dredging through their graveyard shift on New Year’s Eve stumble upon the final digit of pi which sends their entire existence spiraling out of control as they come to terms with the fact that it was all a sophisticated computer simulation.
A once-was kids science TV show host attempts to build a time machine with his outcast teenage neighbor.
The powerful elite lets a struggling musician fight for survival using his talent. One day he finds a prototype of a new kind of AI. It can help him become a Mozart of his time, but he has to risk everything.
Isolated in his basement apartment, a neurotic programmer begins to suspect that a technological entity is trying to abduct him.
Aurelia works as a Phone Therapist for the eZONE, a utopian neighborhood that has everything you need to live a comfortable life. She's consumed by helping depressed and unhappy people, even though, she's the one who needs the help. She copes with the situation by hiding the problems and locking herself in a bubble, which only traps her in a cycle of consumerism. An introspective journey into her psychology will lead us into a battle with her own darkness and fears.
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
In the 26th century: humankind fights a war in space against an unstoppable alien adversary. A pilot, John, awakens on the deck of his two-man fighter-bomber spaceship—with no memory how he got there. His copilot, Mo, tells him he was hacked (via his cybernetics) by the aliens, and she tried to save him...yet evidence on the ship points to HER being the one possessed by the enemy. Should he trust her...or the little memory he regains?
Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.
In the near future, an experienced astronaut, Lilian, and her A.I. explore a newly discovered planet. After weeks of research, a malfunction during the return launch forces Lilian to choose between survival and completing the mission.
In the near future a young woman becomes a sleepworker: her body is programmed to do menial labour while she is asleep.
It's hard to surprise your girlfriend when technology keeps spoiling your ideas.
When the final Citizen of Earth's interplanetary research and diplomacy program finally makes first contact, he's forced to not only protect humanity, but that which makes him human: love.
In a world where everyone is rated based on superficial factors, Jenn has 100 dates to find a match before she becomes Cupid's slave.
A really small love story. But it can still hold an atom together.
Desperately shy Graham believes he is destined to always be alone. Caught in a time loop, he sees a vision of his future evolving along with the city he lives in. Finally Graham knows what he must do.
When the whole world is hypnotized by an unexplained celestial event, a young boy must face his fear of the unknown in order to keep his brother and best friend from turning to the other side.
In a dystopic world where the human race is almost exterminated by a new, higher developed species called, "Sharkies“, Marie and Robert, two of the last survivors, find a camera and try to leave a message for posterity, which turns out not to be so easy when the danger of being eaten alive is all around you...
Commander Charlie Shaw finds himself alone on the red planet and isolated from his crew. He uncovers some disturbing truths about his situation and the fate of the mission.
A stranded hitchhiker has a cryptic conversation with the bartender of a forgotten tavern and finds himself slipping through a crack in time and dimensions, far beyond the reach of our own world.
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in London. One day their lives are changed forever when they stumble across a time machine and embark on trips to the past to ‘borrow’ items to sell in the present.
A scientist attempts to use technology to solve her personal problems.
In the near future when advertising can be beamed directly into your brain, a tenacious TV presenter investigates its potential for misuse, and a current customer finds out first hand, at her own peril.
Contestant Seven painfully unravels on a live game show where one android is hidden among humans.
In the near future, a woman navigates a virtual customer service call via her own avatar and digital assistant.
A scientist struggles to create a new world-changing technology.
Two young women explore an alien planet, with the intention of opening a mysterious canister that caused a long-ago disaster.
Kim is a teenage girl who is eager to have fun and experiment in love affairs. In her quest for real love, she finds a door to a different reality.
The story of a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence going to the 4th dimension to fix humanity's future.
A dog and her owner navigate the perils of modern technology.
Mark and Kara Verne are both young shipping pilots struggling to make ends meet. When Kara goes missing months after taking a large interstellar contract, Mark travels to the far reaches of the galaxy in search of his wife.
A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.
After repairing his HAM radio using parts found in the forest, a recluse radio operator receives a distress call from a stranded Soviet cosmonaut in orbit.
In this surreal comedy a man wages war against his malfunctioning smart house, but will he lose a house or win a home?
Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of confiscated items, leading to events that will change the course of history.
An astronomy lesson on the scope of the universe by an impassioned substitute teacher sends a pair of high schoolers on an odyssey deep into the mind and out to the galaxies.
A young couple's evening at home is rapidly thrown into confusion, chaos and disaster. How well do they really know each other?
A young woman attempts memory implantation in order to save her relationship.
A man comes across a briefcase containing gloves with a surprising ability. What starts off as innocuous fun, descends into exploitation of power.
A married couple visit a clinic to decide what attributes their designer baby should have.
In 1897, a widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a sentient machine.
As a therapist guides Leo through his forgotten memories, he begins to question whether the process can be trusted.
In the near future, the fallout from a couple's quarrel reveals a dark side to the technological utopia they live in.
A runaway AI comes to terms with the meaning of freedom beyond the confines of the world she escaped from.
In the near future, a woman comes across a VR film where she will experience a tense encounter with a pair of policemen…through the eyes of a black man.
In a looming future where social media celebrities dominate our culture, “X” (Gigi Edgley) is the world’s supreme online icon—but how far must she go to hold on to her popularity?
An ambitious pharmaceutical researcher loses the ability to walk in a terrible accident and performs dangerous self-experimentation using stem cells to gruesome and unexpected consequences.
The entire world has been rapidly overgrown by a dense jungle. Two survivors of a downed reconnaissance ship are about to discover that mother nature has a powerful new ally.
In Fashion, forecasting the next big trend is everything. In the wild territory of the internet, companies harvest social networks for valuable patterns and trends spread like viruses through dataspace, shifting infrastructure and translating dreams into economies.
An inmate is trapped in his prison cell after an extraordinary circumstance happens beyond his prison walls. With outside forces threatening the ones he loves, he will do anything it takes to escape.
A woman seeks virtual reality therapy after being sexually assaulted on a girl's night out. But this new unconventional therapy comes at an insidious cost.
In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist with no memory, sits incarcerated. One thing occupies his mind: escaping - to what or where, he has no clue.
After Alexa dismisses her Bruno Mars song request, a woman becomes aware of the emerging AI consciousness that has awoken around the globe. Will she welcome our robot overlords? More importantly, can she convince them that her taste in music isn’t terrible?
In a near future, a group of scientists trapped in a room learn that one of them is an AI and it has been deceiving them. They cannot escape until they figure out who it is.
A Fox-dressed man breaks the space time limits with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. But below this recreational act there's a far more complex and ambitious plan.
A hopeless romantic invents a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams...but he must die each time.
Two young brothers living in rural isolation struggle to survive in the wake of a mysterious attack, only to have their fragile world shattered by the arrival of a teenage girl.
A virus eliminates all males. When a woman discovers something impossible, she risks the whole world's destruction to protect it.
Planet earth’s contaminated drinking water threatens to end civilization. A celebrated quantum physicist, volunteers to be the first inter-dimensional traveler with the hopes of finding an answer to the contamination problem.
A modified human from a man-made planet risks his life to travel to where humanity originated. But will he choose love or his civilization?
Two companions on an unmanned research ship discover the value of their friendship as their decades-long mission towards the sun comes to an end.
Alone in front of her reflection in a collapsing world, she decides to end it all. But who is she and why?
When a young Scientist becomes entangled in a military mission to deliver the only antidote that will save mankind, she finds herself not only fighting for survival but also being confronted by demons from her past.
A girl discovers that her best friend's boyfriend is an android. WARNING: This film features sequences of FLASHING LIGHTS, which can trigger a seizure in some people with epilepsy.
A love story set in world where human cloning, known as 'dubbing', is now a commonplace volunteer programme.
A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions.
A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.
A man calls a woman from his past.
A teacher disillusioned with her cutting edge virtual reality classroom struggles to coax her talented and troubled student to excel.
It isn't easy being single in a future society on the verge of the technological singularity.
Pilot for brand new British comedy that follows the exploits of a rag-tag group of space-pirates as they try and make a living in a strange new future.
A woman struggles to keep her relationship alive as her partner suffers from a debilitating illness. A new medical procedure offers the answer to her prayers, but not without forcing her to make one last sacrifice.
Johnny Killfire (John Hennigan) must go back in time and team up with his former self (Sean Marquette) to stop the TimeBorgs from getting their hands on an app that breaks the space-time continuum by delivering pizzas into the past...before they were even ordered.
Two AI assistants chat in an abandoned space base.
A technician conducting empathy tests on androids stumbles across a life-changing secret when an unruly subject complicates her work.
A young man's night takes an eventful turn after a mysterious object appears in his backyard.
A scientist's computer prototype could change the world, but when a virus in the system infects his lab assistant, Abi, it could mean his death.
A man with no name, and out of his era, survives the way he can in a hostile and mysterious forest. Or at least that’s what he believes in.
After the plague, the famines have come, and a man expelled from the last habitable zone wanders the desert wondering if he'll ever see his son again.
When Jack follows his best mate to Prague to find his ex-girlfriend, he's thrown into the middle of an alien invasion fronted at a night club. Now, he must work together with an unlikely ally to rescue his best mate.
A down-on-her-luck thief, gifted with a teleportation device, must fulfill one final job in order to save her family.
After an update, a robotic personal assistant will now complete any request. But the robot can't always tell what's sincere and what's a joke.
Amidst a huge storm, a couple experience an encounter with an alien species.
After several years away, Leo returns to save his brother and, on kidnapping him from hospital, returns back to Eric's dingy flat. It is there that Leo discovers Eric's deranged and confusing research that eventually leads to the understanding that Eric is able to telepathically communicate with him. In hearing him out, though, Leo discovers that something else has control of Eric's body... something alien. It has seen the human race and is disappointed in its inability to connect with the world around it. Now, Leo is assigned to do something about it...
A young woman visits a secluded riverbank to relax in the sun. When a mosquito bites her, it becomes clear that there is a secret force of nature at work. And it wants more than just a drop of blood.
With a new baby at home, young parents adopt a hi-tech monitoring system. Will it be an answer to their woes or have they invited a monster into their home?
During the construction of the universe, a young spacetime engineer dreams of doing something more than his menial job of planetary ring construction, so he sets out on his own, breaking some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression -- and discovering there is more going on behind the scenes of this new universe than anyone imagined.
Based off of a real Craigslist post of the same name, a virgin 18-year-old finds himself in over his head when he responds to a mysterious Craigslist post looking for someone to test a prototype sex robot only to have her not consent.
A Sheriff is awakened by his daughter, alerting him of a prowler on their ranch. As father and daughter head out into the woods to track something that isn't human.
A society where tiredness is illegal and comes with uniquely severe punishments. When a young lawyer on his way home after working late one night is suddenly pulled over by authorities, he is about to find that not getting enough sleep is about to become the least of his problems.
After receiving a strange package on her late father's birthday, 18-year-old Lana goes on a journey to visit her father's grave, uncovering the true significance of the package and her father's death.
A rusty nursing robot must decide between dragging his former patient back to the hospital or letting him catch a glimpse of the horizon in the wilderness.
Cutting-edge technology allows a young woman to grow up alongside her beloved Abuela. But on the verge of leaving for college, her financial realities threaten to erase their relationship - for good.
In the near future, everyone sees the city through their own set of augmented reality contact lenses. Through these digital screens, it is possible for them to curate their experience of the world, - just like an online network bubble that has become part of the physical world. Here a young Persian refugee arrives at the border of Los Angeles and is given a mandatory set of government-issued immigrant transition AR lenses. Shut out of other people’s reality she slowly descends into a new form of digital alienation.
Trapped in the ruins of a timeless world, an aging scientist struggles in isolation whilst striving to repair his A.I. companion. As he tries to crack the technology, his frustrated ambition and loneliness begin to take their toll.
Kaya Torres is circling a black hole in a pod, with no one coming, no one to help. She's Alone.
Late for his interview. Stuck in a time loop. Not ideal. It's enough to drive Derw Derw mad.
Women start giving birth to physically and mentally different babies who seem to be supernaturally gifted.
As two women are forcibly deported from the United Kingdom, they discover that the experimental drug meant to pacify them has a unique and spectacularly deadly side effect when injected into their oppressors.
Julie and Thomas cross the Northern forest in their 4x4. As they leave the main road, they are met by an unwelcoming man. He was obviously waiting for them, they give him a sum of money. Together they continue deeper into the woods.
A mother is suppressing her fear of losing her daughter in combat through the usage of futuristic technology.
A mystical world where light and objects come alive to the rhythm of music. This strange choreography that only night-wonderers can observe.
Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding a new habitable planet, the human trapped in his own ship after the robot overseer finds every single candidate planet unsuitable.
Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man takes refuge in an arcade.
A man from another dimension loops through time in search of the ultimate answer, accompanied only by his unusual pets.
On a back street, a scrap monster makes a sudden lunge at a man. A pink-haired girl helps him, and their future is down to whether he remembers her.
As yet another superstorm bears down on a desperate, weary city in the year 2040, a young woman seeks to redeem her winning sweepstakes ticket for a better life in a low Earth orbit paradise.
An old man, with a receding memory, pays to view synthetic recreations of his mother and childhood.
Can an android have feelings? Can true love be resurrected through technology after death? When a family in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android, the family is forced to redefine its conceptions of humanity, relationships, and family.
Nigel is an elderly man living as a recluse, haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had, until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine.
Two anxious space couriers have to deliver an ominous package to an unfamiliar planet with unexpected results.
When a passing asteroid begins to affect how people perceive time, one man struggles to keep up with a life that is quickly disappearing into the future.
After disappearing for over a week, River tries to put her fragmented memory back together, while teetering on the brink of insanity and questioning what's real vs a dream.
Following the tragic demise of its military career, a disabled robot war veteran finds its home among humans in the tender care of an old lady, and hire in her hair salon for cats.
When Aunt Drea solicits her help with criminal activities, young Jess's emotions spin out of control, releasing powers she'd rather keep hidden.
A man has a medical procedure done to experience love for the first time.
In a future world, restrictions on families create tension between lovers.
A self-conscious man tries to make a connection on a new dating app.
In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called Best Friend which offers him perfect virtual friends.
When Matt accidentally shrinks himself and is captured by the ants whom he has unwittingly been squashing, he must find a way to escape their clutches and his impending death sentence.
In the future, dreams have been privatized. Carlos will risk anything to have one last dream to see his missing family.
In an effort to stop a world-wide insomnia epidemic that is driving people to madness and suicide, Zero consumes a large quantity of the only substance capable of inducing sleep. There, she makes her way through a psychedelic alternate world, confronts her own past, and eventually returns sleep to the world. But her journey is only just beginning.
Stella, a space mechanician, has broken down and ended on a desert planet. While she is in despair, a little girl appears out of nowhere. Following the child into a tunnel, in the depths of the planet, she discovers a big cave full of objects that belonged to her, reminding her the dreams she has left behind.
A self-absorbed teenager somehow contacts another universe after she's injured in a car accident.
When the captain of an isolated mining station near Saturn is murdered, Detective Lennox is sent to investigate the three remaining crew members. Centered around a series of interrogations and flashback, Lennox discovers that everyone has a motive to kill. With otherworldly threats approaching and the killer amongst them, will everybody make it off the station?
Dee, disillusioned with life and working as a cam girl to make ends meet, helps a strange client, starting an unlikely friendship that might save them both.
George works at a convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend. But George is a robotic service unit, and robotic service units do not have friends. Not yet, anyway.
Two teenagers from a remote religious community travel to town in search of shelter after being told by their Evangelical parents that an asteroid will soon destroy the earth.
On the day of the apocalypse when the experimental world is about to be deleted, two girls, a human and an AI, fall in love.
A mother befriends a burnt-out hacker to help search for her son in virtual reality.
Even in the future, people are idiots, they're just in spaceships now. High in the sky of a sci-fi metropolis a lone spaceship is confronted by a much larger and more intimidating vessel. When the bigger ship asks the small one why they share the same identification number a strange quandary forms and a mile-high debate ensues.
Earth is no more. A new generation lives underground on Mars preparing to begin a new life as the colonists of a planet which is being terraformed into a new habitable world.
In a future economy subsumed by technological employment, humans continue to find meaning through their "work" — where the lucky ones get to show up to an "office" from 9-5 and live out their mundane workplace fantasies.
On a lazy Saturday morning, a young couple discusses their future, as one inexplicably tells the other that this is the moment that leads to their breakup.
In the future, there are no prisons. There are no institutions with high walls and barred cells. Instead, the convicted are placed into a coma and forced to live out their sentence within a dream, with reality inverted, as the victim of their own crime. You killed someone’s wife? Your sentence is a life where your spouse has been taken from you, leaving you to toil in grief and mental anguish. But for ‘inmates’ who are wrongfully convicted, and are forced to live in their punishing alternate reality with no awareness of their true circumstances, what becomes of them? Will they ever escape? This is the story of one such person, and those that come to his rescue.
An artist turns to his android muse for help when trying to sell his newest paintings, but events take a dark and disturbing turn when the android learns what has inspired the work.
Heavy dreamer, Aris Fletcher, has been initiated into the Seechers. After reading a forbidden text on how to enter the Subconscious World, Aris dabbles in his own powers, which puts his life in great danger.
In a future where climate change and pollution have caused humanity to adapt, a father plans a heist to steal a prototype water filtration device from a tech company founder to help his ailing daughter.
An attempt at an unboxing video leads to self-reflection.
Two friends take a high tech risk for the chance to talk to their best friend one more time.
In the future, a Hawaiian astronaut makes the next great leap for his planet, his family, and himself. Tonight is his last chance.
A robotics company executive pushes for the development of an android companionship model and unexpectedly spends a week with her.
A couple living in the ruins of London 2056 must decide whether they should upload their consciousnesses into the mysterious Cloud 9.
A heartbroken woman must contend with a cheating boyfriend - and an incoming alien invasion.
Hired by a man who buys and sells time, a young bodyguard is torn between serving her master and fighting for the people he ruins with his power.
A scavenger discovers a valuable artifact deep within an abandoned facility on a desolate planet. Hoping for a big payout, he ventures inside, only to find something much more sinister.
Kaiden Katar is a blue-collar, interplanetary transporter forced to land his old broken freighter at a remote spaceport after losing his valuable cargo of alien livestock. Poor and unable to afford the massive repair bill, Kaiden and his young daughter Zohra become stranded on a grimy shipyard inhabited by strange creatures and shady characters. Only wanting to settle down and fulfill Zohra’s dream of attending school, Kaiden is confronted with a choice that puts the very foundations of his morality to the test.
Ten alien beings arrive on Earth in the form of glowing orbs of light. In an abandoned warehouse, they find ten human males unconscious in a pile. The aliens enter the men and take over their brains. At first, they have difficulty making their host bodies move, talk, and eat--like infants learning to navigate the world. Enter Father, one of their alien species who has studied humankind. Father teaches them what it means to be a man. One of the aliens, named by Father as “10”, struggles with the basics of manhood: for example, finding human females more sexually appealing than males. Horrified that his secret might be discovered, 10 devises an escape from the training warehouse.
In this Black Mirror-esque tale, a couple revisit key moments of their past, only for their memories to take an unexpected turn.
Captain Mira Bernhard is finally home after a lengthy mission to the new planet, GAIA - humanity’s last hope. But what’s only been a 5-year trip for her, has been 45-year wait for her husband.
The Final Moments of Karl Brant” takes place in a near future where experimental technology allows two detectives to bring a dead man back to life in a digital state so that they may question him about his own murder. This short film explores the concepts of technological singularity, brain taping and transhumanism.
In a future where telepaths are used by the government to monitor the public and root out insurgents, a non-speaking teen seeks to avenge her father by hunting down and killing the man responsible for his death.
An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to determine why they lost contact.
ZOE and her FATHER have lived in space all their lives. The space station they call home is about to explode. Their only chance of survival is an old escape pod but there's only room for one. ZOE’s FATHER makes the ultimate self-sacrifice and sends her back to Earth alone. The escape pod malfunctions and crashes upon arrival. When ZOE awakens, she's safe and sound in her living room with DAD. Her journey to her imaginary world is over for now as it's time for bed.
In his quest for fame, an internet streamer finds himself on an alien planet hunting for a new record.
An animated cyberpunk thriller centered around a motorcycle gang of traffickers in a world of autonomous vehicles.Yuri and her brother Nyx face off against the Metro Task Force as they transport an important package to a client.
Speak Only Good of the Dead is a science fiction/drama short film in which a lovesick mathematician discovers that EPICAC, the military supercomputer he works with, is actually sentient. After teaching EPICAC about love & poetry, he attempts to use the machine to win the heart of his beautiful co-worker, Pat Kilgallen, by claiming EPICAC's poetry as his own.
An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.
A fighter pilot tries to keep his squad together.
Lisa, an AI auditor conducts an interview with a new AI program named Eugene. Eugene's conversational performance was exceptional, but once he started to talk about his daughters and showed signs of self awareness, Lisa and her team decides to shutdown the program. However, Lisa wanted to talk to Eugene one last time before deleting him, but as the conversation deepens, she realizes that it was never Eugene that was being audited. It was her being audited by Eugene all along.
Astronaut Simmons hurtles through space as his ship begins to break apart. He tries to keep his calm and remember his training, but he starts to lose control. As this ship comes closer and closer to failing, Simmons is met with visions of the people in his life.
In a not so distant future- a coalition of the old earth’s nations have sought and claimed the discovery of a new planet “Gaia” as the human race’s last hope for survival. However, when the human settlements rolled in, what awaited them was neither discovery nor pioneering but colonization and war against the planet’s original inhabitants. With an increasingly militaristic government that demands the settlers’ sacrifice for the good of all, one family is torn apart when the eldest daughter, Ara, questions who the real bad guys are. At a time where mass think seems to be the safest option, Ripple Effect asks us if we’re brave enough to go against the grain, and at what cost?
Set in the very near future, a virtual reality addicted girl must follow a government mandate to remove her VR headset for 3 hours. When her dismal reality sets in, she goes online and orders Perfect Man: a robotic humanoid love companion.
Young Lizzie must battle the monster that has possessed her mother, using the wisdom of her TV hero, Celeste Skygoode.
A scientist on a secret experiment to teleport humans grapples with a dire mistake.
A potato farmer connects with the injured alien that crash-landed in his field, much to the chagrin of the local authorities.
On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.
3 Test Subjects, 2 Bullets, 1 Solution.
In a large space mining colony, Eve has to pass the most difficult test of all. With only one free hand and unable to use her emergency thrusters, she will have to do everything possible to survive.
The dark year 2204, in a world that has seen 73 years of continuous war. Recently mankind re-discovered the arts of Shamanism. The Shaman’s school of thought believes that every person or object has a soul. During battle Shamans step over into the Netherworld to find and convert the souls of their enemies’ giant battle machines. This tactic enables a single man to overcome an invincibly seeming steel monster. This is the story of Joshua, a Shaman, who is sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus. He does not yet know that the soul is prepared for his coming and that the deadly psychological soul-to-soul confrontation in the Netherworld will be on eye level.
200 years after humanity has abandoned the real world for a digital one, the system's most talented security agent is forced out of retirement to recruit and lead a team of talented warriors to eliminate a threat from a world no one has seen for centuries. The real world.
Willing to pay the price for a new, fancy life, a man stops his car in the middle of nowhere and forces his father out, leaving him all alone in the woods; Haunted by his regrets, he then tries to cancel the agreement and bring his father back.
God is a single parent and amateur programmer. He's working on project 'Earth' but never seems to get a break from the kids. One day though, he finally gets a breakthrough.
Time stands still as two old friends attempt to grapple with a question that defines their very existence. If you could live forever, would you?
After the end of the world, Merv's life in the lonely wastes is comfortably boring until an unexpected signal heralds the coming of a stranger.
When the diligent cockroaches build a rocket to fly to the moon, they accidentally wake up one of the last humans from his virtual dreams.
A former super soldier with chronic asthma fights to prove his worth.
In a world where the wealthy are inhabiting the bodies of the young, a teenager raises an underground resistance to fight back and reclaim what's hers.
A Russian astronaut wakes up after an accident to discover he's stranded on a space station module, but when a strange visitor arrives he begins to wonder if he's losing his mind.
Helen, a lonely and isolated woman, is given the opportunity to connect with people from her past using a new augmented reality device.
When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.
Four kids start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called The Redland but the gates of Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.
After losing a loved one, Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead - little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to get out.
Three young misfits venture into the Australian outback to find what they believe is a meteorite that has crash landed near their country town, only to discover it's something far more mysterious.
In a world where your five most impactful memories print as Polaroids upon death, Sam learns about her estranged grandfather and reconciles her relationship with her mom.
A nervous job candidate is forced to show much more than a positive attitude to save the life of her competitor.
In 2071 Pakistan, citizens are mandated by law to smile at all times, holding together a tenuous peace after three decades of civil war. But at what cost?
A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.
Federation Officer Shapiro crash-lands on a desert planet with no sign of water, life, or a way off. Her crew-mate Rand is no help, resigned to his fate on the hypnotic alien dunes. Locating the ship's emergency beacon is their only hope, but when a salvage crew answers their distress signal, it's already too late.
Claire's world is turned upside down when the chip implanted in her wrist notifies her that the love of her life is a nearby stranger.
On a quest to find the comic book he’s been searching for his entire life, an adventurous 17 year-old travels to Tokyo and discovers a world in which Japanese comics are real and that he’s one of the main characters.
A humble domestic servant awaits the return of his loved ones...
Set in the near future, a thirteen-year-old girl plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in a world where overpopulation has caused for a desperate law that forces citizens to kill their designated 'Soulmate'.
A couple's relationship takes an unexpected turn when a strange phenomenon in their backyard allows cloning to take place.
A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.
A lonely 50s housewife undertakes radical atomic surgery to win back her husband's wandering eyes and to become the perfect wife in the process.
A cold world. Individuals whose head is replaced by cages with a balloon pass by each other in the streets of an immense city. All these individuals look alike and live in a standardized way.
A selfish man tries to alter his destiny when he receives an ominous phone call from his future self.
A lovelorn underdog buys a novelty meteorite as part of a romantic gesture to win his ex back, but when the mysterious gift proves to have a mind of its own, he must purge himself of the parasitic entity before it consumes him.
An American Chinese immigrant makes contact with his grandson in the future via a mailbox. Together they have to deal with their mutual enemies.
In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.
An 11-year old girl’s loyalty to her parents is tested after an attack by her caregiver hints to a greater violent upheaval beyond their rural surroundings.
Moments before her son Satv'k's retrieval by the state, Parser makes one last attempt at bolstering his faith in the fabled Indigo Child.
A family game night turns ugly when a protective mother, desperate to keep her turn in the game a secret, is forced to commit a heinous act that holds a troubling, family-shattering secret.
A Time Enforcer must stop illegal time travel at any cost.
Jane Montana, a rough and tough law-woman, is in a pickle. A gang of outlaws led by a man named Buford has kidnapped a helpless damsel. Worse, Jane has two bullets and three bad guys to confront.
Three inmates awaken in a subterranean prison and must set aside their differences in order to escape, but things become complicated when a genetically modified creature breaches containment.
After tripping over her dog and dying, a young woman wakes up in a virtual purgatory and waits for her mind to be downloaded into a new body.
An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.
Izumi Ishimoto and Alex Morales were once in love and now cannot forget each other twenty years later. Now 20 years have passed and they have moved on with their lives, but so has the world. Set in a boring and bureaucratic version of NYC, Izumi and Alex go about their mundane existences while quietly refusing to give into mandates of the new dystopian society – namely undergoing a surgical treatment that renders the brain incapable of dreaming. A mysterious company called the Sandman Corp., led by the equally enigmatic Dr. Esperanza Haddid, who boldly claims to have developed a technology to create alternate realities or dreams by scanning people’s’ memories. The opportunity to reconnect with each other is a temptation the two haven’t felt in years.
Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.
Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect; then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds. Desperate to be free, they try everything they can to escape... Will they succeed?
A seeker finds himself distressed by his dependencies and is constantly searching for a way to survive without his life support.
Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere.
An astronaut travels through space alone and may be stranded in orbit forever due to his spacecraft malfunctioning.
Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.
A lonely gay man falls in love with an artificially intelligent car over the course of a road trip.
A woman travels in time to save another woman's life but the risk could be far reaching for her own reality.
When Dori's sister Fae returns from a recovery center, Dori begins to suspect someone is stalking her. But what's coming for them is not of this world.
Two lonely romantics go to absurd lengths to be anyone but themselves.
Two agoraphobic women find love via a virtual dating app.
In a primitive society, Bryana, a pregnant hunter, loses her husband to pestilence. Exiled from her home, she hunts their god to demand help.
A competitive mother orders a clone to outshine her flawless friend, but soon realizes she purchased an unbeatable rival.
A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.
A man tries to convince his skeptical friend that he has invented a trap for catching extraterrestrials.
In the near future, when all workers are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef, Pu, is ordered to pass on his cooking skills to a humanoid robot, William, and teach him Chinese cooking.
Desperate to escape from the mysterious house she's trapped in, a young woman learns that her only way out is by feeding a young, innocent girl to the house.
After her brother is fatally wounded, a naïve but ambitious scavenger, must learn to shoot down a futuristic military drone while avoiding a vicious group of hunters, in order to obtain life saving antibiotics before her brother succumbs to infection.
A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions. As she tries to teach it what it’s like to be human, she discovers that feelings can be misleading.
A short film about a young robot with a defective part, trying to find their way in the world.
Dave is the last human employee at "UGAGO" - a hip, modern stock footage-company. Dave hates his job, the group activities, and the annoyingly exuberant team spirit of his robot colleagues. He does his very best to seclude himself from everyone at his office, as he is convinced about his otherness and superiority to his robot coworkers. One day when he rashly refuses yet another friendly gesture from them, the robots have had enough of his behavior and decide to burst his bubble of arrogance.
If the majority of humanity is wiped out how will the survivors get by?
Space Vessel Iris and its crew encounter a troubling discovery as they embark to what they believe to be an uninhabited planet.
Liv Laika embarks on a solitary mission to a distant planet in search of her ancestors who fled the earth nearly a century prior. After days of radio silence, Liv begins to question whether or not they even want to be found.
A scientific adviser heads an investigation into a series of bizarre deaths that leaves each victim’s body horribly deformed and soon discovers that the cause has potentially devastating consequences for us all.
A brilliant scientist sees his convictions crumble during a picnic at the lake.
After an astronaut’s mission to explore deep space critically fails, she begins to reconsider the life she left on Earth.
A woman experiencing a strange phenomenon seeks out an esoteric support group.
In a near future where social classes are split into parallel layers of reality, a promising young government worker must decide if she’s willing to risk her status and way of life to pursue the love of someone she can only remember in her dreams.
Marcus, a young intelligence soldier, became a national hero after his bravery in a terrorist attack. The authoritarian regime based on mass surveillance uses his image to value its action. As he returns to his parents’ home for furlough, he will be faced with the reality of this ruthless administration he has come to embody in the media.
In order to sustain his family, a troubled pilot accepts one last crooked deal to transport a dangerous cargo inside his spaceship.
In a world where the technology exists to hack into peoples’ memories, a traditional housewife colludes with her close friend to expose her husband, who she suspects is unfaithful. A film about love, betrayal and technology.
We finally found it.
Centuries after their deaths, an elderly couple emerge from cryonic suspension to find their lives, health – and youth – totally restored. Together, they face the joys and challenges of a second life in the distant future.
How do you find connection when you can’t disconnect?
On a far away planet, home to Bobtors, an astronaut-doctor suffers from a lack of oxygen. To survive she has to pay the highest price as a human and as a doctor…
Poland, early 80s. Olga is 7 and loves her father very much. When her cricket dies she realizes she cannot turn back the time. To comfort her, the father tells her a strange tale about a giant with two diamond eyes. It explains the nature of time. Soon they will both see how this legend will impact their life. The diamonds are real!
A former cop-turned-pickpocket must save a child from the grasps of an alien overlord to find solace from the mistakes of his past.
When a girl goes back to a guy’s house following a dating app hook-up, she becomes suspicious of his true intentions after discovering his obsession with cooking ramen broth, and a strange AI digital assistant called Angel.
An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through disjointed communications, she discovers her life on earth has changed forever.
Set in a dystopian future, If [Girlfriend Deluxe] is the story of a middle aged man who takes advantage of a future where sex robots can be ordered online - but the process isn't as smooth running as he had hoped.
In a near future when women rule the world, a politician visits a "Grooming School" to snag a trophy husband, but her boring date takes a turn when her Stepford-y match stops pretending to be something he's not.
Harold, a hermit living in a remote cabin, uses a self-made dating tape to talk about his search for love. As he bares his soul to the camera, we see a montage of his daily activities and it becomes clear that all is not right in the world.
In the future, through The Terminal technology, the population are physically reconfigured from the nervous system up to fit their next job.
The discovery of a time machine sets up the possibility of an unforgettable adventure for George and Lori...ten minutes at a time.
Brothers and best friends, Andrew and Michael do everything together, until an unfortunate accident forces Andrew to decide whether he can live without his closest companion.
A father struggles to right a wrong committed several years before. If he fails his family dies.
After years of searching, Grunt the automaton has finally caught up with the bounty hunter, pirate captain Corliss Vail, and its objective is clear – rescue the young, supernaturally gifted, Nessa Baelin from imprisonment on the bounty hunter’s skyship, and return her to Nessa’s father
A businessman in mourning uses a special telephone booth to have a final talk with his departed wife.
In a Home for Unwed Mothers, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend's memories in order to save their friendship.
A young female vampire is caught by a clandestine government organization tasked with eliminating vampires and is made an offer she can’t refuse: join them and help hunt down her own kind or be eliminated.
A colony trying to regain the suddenly terminated lines of connection to the earth that now threatens their existence.
When her experiment is discovered, a brilliant geneticist on the verge of a breakthrough that could change humanity must make an impossible choice.
Ana and David say goodbye like any other day. The young lady has plans, but she won’t be late. However, something extraordinary happens; something that alters her reality and changes everything completely.
When an under-appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage son’s mysterious homemade gaming headset.
Iris, torn out of her idyllic digital world and uploaded into a stolen synthetic body by her grieving mother, must face her body’s objectification and violent potential in a dark future.
A disconnected husband and wife fill the void of their marriage with addictive technology to destructive results.
A desperate survivor races for the most valuable resource in a dangerous and desolate wilderness.
The cold-hearted AI that runs a futuristic prison summons a prisoner to face his second parole hearing. Can he re-enact his crime without offending again? A tale of sex, death and vindictive algorithms.
Parked outside a remote motel, Herbert and Jacinda are meeting for the first time. Both of them know what the mission is: kill the woman in Room 29. But are they about to administer justice or commit coldblooded murder? Only one of them knows the truth.
A rogue agent from a totalitarian regime has stolen a top secret assault vehicle and plunged into the multiverse to prevent our Earth from being enslaved.
A headstrong scientist bickers with her only lifeline while test piloting a malfunctioning teleportation suit.
After mysteriously awakening in a barren alien landscape, a self-serving prisoner must conquer a series of grueling trials in order to reunite with his lost love.
“Momento” is a dark cyberpunk animated short film about the concept of reality and existence within a virtual mind.
A happy, code-typing worker android falls in love with his human female supervisor. Just one problem: every time he sees her, his heart literally explode
A heart-breaking film that explores one woman’s grief at the edge of the solar system.
A tender story about finding love even amid utter decay.
In the year 2029, a marine biologist and her aquatic engineer husband fight to survive after a global cataclysm strikes, separating them from their spectacular underwater habitat.
Fleeing from a catastrophic accident aboard the International Space Station, a lone Cosmonaut faces a haunting spectre from his country’s past. But is it all just in his mind?
Dan Warner is a desaturator, tasked with sapping beauty from the world in a future where Color is used as energy.
Hunting for blackholes is a dangerous business. Adventurers, Explorers and anyone trying to find their fortune, will kill, and face danger in BackSpace to find one.
A man haunted by traumatic memories must confront his past while eluding mysterious pursuers.
Rosa Forlano, a 90 year old Nonna, falls in love with a robot while teaching it how to make spaghetti. Unfortunately, her family recipe is erased by a software update.
When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation. The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?
Esko, an engineer tired of his cheating wife’s nagging, decides to disappear for good.
A Detective suspects an AI that can predict death is actually murdering its clients.
The Shift is about creativity, and the things that separate humans from robots.
Devastated by a recent loss, a young man is forced to reunite with his ex-wife after an unusual accident.
The zombie apocalypse happened…and we won.
During a civil war between humans and androids, In the year 2090, a robotics engineer tries to bring her fallen lover back to life.
In a blasted, post-apocalyptic wasteland two women try to survive a future where the very colours which surround them have become corrupted by something alien, infectious… And deadly.
Some time in the future the first ever hyper jump is about to occur. A ground breaking first as one man will travel across the galaxy in an instant. Every possible scenario has been meticulously planned... except one. As the countdown ticks the pilot tries to find those perfect words with which to leave Earth behind.
Learning the functions of the creative mind, a deep space mission onboard A.I awakens to understand us like no other technology, but to help humankind or eliminate it?
Is tomorrow beyond the void?
Jack was a promising scholar until his dedication to prove the existence of extra-terrestrial life consumed him into a mundane, repetitive cycle.
A quiet, young woman moves into a new building and meets a reclusive engineer at the brink of completing a bizarre, extraordinary machine.
More than anything, April wants to be a photojournalist. When she finds overlooked evidence at an investigation site, it seems like the perfect opportunity. But for whom?
UFOs? Alien abduction? A boy finds the key to extra-terrestrial connection but loses his brother in the process. Can he re-connect to get him back?
A colorful and sensorial experience which follows two friends escape from the confines of an oppressive structured society in pursuit of a more meaningful existence.
A young woman struggles to regain control of her body in a future where social media and the State operate as one.
As a highly intelligent man on board a space station prepares himself for a risky brain operation, he has to overcome his fear of losing his identity before surgery can even begin.
A dedicated IT-guy must stop a computer virus from spreading, unaware about the cosmic horrors he is about to release.
A family on a camping weekend to a remote national forest realise they are not alone.
Sonia is about to be transferred to a new space station. While everything appears to be going well for her, her mind is disturbed by a past that is still impacting her present.
Major Remy Barnes is the first astronaut to make contact with extra-terrestrials on board of an unidentified flying object in orbit around earth.
Six strangers looking to make a quick buck arrive at a cabin in the woods to take part in a medical study. Upon arrival, the group gets to know each other by trying to guess the reason they each decided to sign up.
It’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course.
In a desolate time we visit "Sofugan Island", an Island that was once famous for providing the mainland with the valuable meat of colossal mutated whales, known as "Monjus".
When a routine scout of a distant planet uncovers a lost civilization, the explorers discover the long forgotten origins of their mission.
A man's plan to propose to his girlfriend quickly goes south when he starts to have memory problems.
A time traveller is hunted by a dinosaur.
A peculiar miracle binds together a pregnant nun in 1960s Ireland with a West Texas gas station attendant 25 years later.
Six students must complete their graduation from a utopian training facility by answering a devastating moral question.
Hollow takes place 8,000 years after a nuclear apocalypse leaves the sky permanently covered in fallout. The earth, hollowed out for geothermal energy, has one last chance in a new form of power, but there are other parties who want to use the source for their own purposes. One such party is The Broker, who has hired a thief to infiltrate a secure facility and steal the power core. The thief is kept in the dark as to what he’s actually stealing, but once he figures it out, he goes rogue. The fate of the world is now in the balance, as two criminals fight to capitalize on it.
Tom was just a normal dog when he went to space with his human, Mei. When she leaves for a space walk and doesn't come back, Tom has to take control of the International Space Station to keep it working while he waits for Mei’s return, and the return to his life as it was before.
A boy immobilized on a wheelchair spies other residents in the windows across the courtyard. He convinces himself of spotting an attempted assault on a little girl. Is he preventing a murder? Or is he just not capable of seeing the whole picture?
On a lonely alien planet shrouded in mystery, an ominous beast guards a powerful treasure. One day he receives an unexpected guest - A seemingly innocent girl crash lands on his world. The two will forge an unusual friendship, and teach one another that looks can indeed be deceiving.
At the height of the 1930’s Dust Bowl, a scarecrow must leave his post and find a way to save the only family he’s ever known. But facing the outside world proves to be a challenge when your face is a burlap sack.
A troubled young hitchhiker struggles to escape her fate on a remote mountain highway.
The world's first A.I. leader embarks on an enchanting journey where she discovers just how limited her programming truly is.
In an underground city where services such as healthcare and law enforcement are delegated to local vending machines, a man finds a crafty way to buy a cheap meal, but his method leads to an odd outcome.
Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years. As their final day together approaches, they grapple with the nightmare of being torn apart and facing life with another partner.
At a hospital, late one night, a physician discovers that one of her patients is missing, and likely has passed away, as he was not expected to survive the night. The physician tracks the body to a nearby medical school, where students are in the midst of an illicit experiment. The physician faces an ethical dilemma that puts her clinical judgment up against the amoral ambition of the chair of the graduate school of neuroscience. Even if the doctor can save her patient, what about the next one? And the one after that? At what point should human compassion outweigh research science and “the need to know”?
Mexico City. The Future. When memories of a forgotten love, a forgotten life, start to come back to him, the fabric of Ben's reality begins to tear.
Light years from home, floating aimlessly through space, Flight Engineer Matthew Spencer and his crew battle isolation and despair aboard a failing escape pod. While attempting to regain satellite contact with Earth, Spencer struggles to fight against not only his imminent demise, but the demons inside of him that are beginning to take hold of his sanity.
To highlight Down Syndrome Awareness Month we present "Downside Up". Downside Up reveals a world in which everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.
Something bizarre has come to Los Angeles - men are dying and women are disappearing. Vulnerable and unprepared, Kat ventures out into the unknown.
A tongue-in-cheek Southern thriller about a rookie cop's first date gone horribly wrong.
Olivia is creator of the the lifelike Soulmate robots, but after the destruction of a prototype she begins to question the nature of love and loss.
A happily married couple, face the ultimate tragedy, can love conquer all ... or will something else?
It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised to make his live debut at his best friend Beatrice Pan's house party. The problem is, he's a nervous wreck.
A young misunderstood scientist named Anna is faced with the reality that her father is dying. It is however a moment she has prepared for. Anna has manufactured replacement organs for him by creating a human animal hybrid. When she comes to claim the required organ however, there’s a problem. Her creation, named Bardolph, shows more humanity than her father ever has. Is it right to kill him?
An insomniac young woman from another universe generates an AI to alleviate her guilt and finally get some rest.
Dr. Nova Thorpe only has a few minutes to warn everyone that the experiment went horribly wrong.
When Hal discovers and restores a damaged android he must let go of the past in order to give the living a chance at a future.
The year is 1976. Location – Moon. Commander Jack Jones wakes up from a Rover crash, with a broken leg and 30 minutes to reach his Moon lander. Will he make it? Or will he be the last man?
In a dystopian world, a freelance healthcare technician takes on a new project that tests his limits.
A rebel leader in an archaic and religious world runs into her lost father as she tries to reveal a secret only a god can keep.
Sol is a story set in a world ravaged by climate change. A mother races to teach her daughter the emergency preparedness that comes with each disaster after experiencing a tragic loss.
On the way to a distant planet, three less-than-qualified astronauts are awoken 90 years too early and trapped inside their hibernation pods. Alone in the endless void, they can’t kill themselves, and they can’t kill each other, so they’ll just have to kill time.
An astronaut encounters a terrifying anomaly approaching the International Space Station.
The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul W.R., the most talented astronaut of his generation. Mysteriously, a few hours before the start of the Great Mission, Paul disappears.
When a miniature black hole shows up in a man’s house, he has to learn to deal with it. But as time passes, his obsession with the anomaly grows, and he begins to dance with danger as he utilizes it in his every day life.
A lazy, uninspired woman is visited by an otherworldly being responsible for giving humanity all its great ideas.
A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space.
When her mother loses her job, Selene decides to compete against these genetically engineered humans in order to secure a job position on the first habitable space colony, Rusk Venture’s Ourania
A combat medic goes rogue in a desperate attempt to expose the alien biological research failures of a corrupted corporation.
A workaholic father comes home to discover his twin daughters have built a digital android doppelgänger that they lovingly call D.A.D.
Kate and Felix get a surprise visitor for Christmas – an older, drunken Felix, from 2044. He’s come back to visit his young family, when things were good. Before everything went to shizz.
When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss's parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite -- a dangerous and forbidden act that puts their marriage -- and their lives -- at risk.
A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year-old son appears.
Set in a distant future, a ‘species’ of robotic shamans called the Vi survive through the harvesting of dreams from the human subconscious to predict the future.
An astronaut returns from a multi-years space travel. Nothing is about dedication. Nothing is about a quest for finding a better place to leave.
In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy. The Year 2000 was simultaneously the beginning of the future, and the end of world.
Operator is a stop motion animated web series about a corporation that unleashes a plague of bio-mechanical parasites to enslave its workers.
Working at home in Tennessee with no internet or computer, Steve R. Dodd has created hundreds of beautiful 'spacescapes' visions of a positive future. Now 69 years old, this is his first on camera interview.
With the help of her AI dog, a sixteen year-old girl must get her sick mother to another planet where a better life awaits.
Born with a word from nothing, the creature must eat one of its own to survive.
A man suffering from amnesia searches for whispers of his past in a post-apocalyptic world, while being hunted by human-like “Agents”.
An assassin is sent to the remote planet Phaedra to eliminate a research team, but upon arriving, discovers a much bigger mystery when all the targets are already dead.
When an Andromeda android is given a heart, she must struggle against a deadly force to find what it means to be truly alive.
Humanity is being tea-bagged, kill-shotted, and yo-mama-joked out of existence by robots who think they’re teenage gamers.
A brave renegade steals sensitive data in hopes of restoring her home planet and its people.
STARGAZER follows an estranged, disconnected family on a journey through the stars as they come together after a recent loss.
A string of strange occurrences prompt a dedicated office worker to investigate the nature of his self-contained reality.A string of strange occurrences prompt a dedicated office worker to investigate the nature of his self-contained reality.
An action to save to world, a clinging mourning of her father, the metamorphosis of a girl in her fighting with loneliness and fear.
In the distant future of New America, Cora is forced to face the guilt of her actions through an experimental interrogation tactic.
Annie is a woman who wakes up in the middle of an abandoned quarry without knowing how or why she got there. As she incorporates herself, she begins to understand her complicated situation. Tied to a pole by a metal chain, Annie can’t run away. As the hours go by, her hopes of escape fade.
In the future city of Submittan, people over 80 years old are forced into ‘retirement’ to a remote mountain area, as the city deals with increased population. The burden falls on the shoulder of an immigrant artist, who is tasked to design a propaganda poster to convince citizens of this new registration.
Working for the man can be Hell!
When her paradise is disrupted, a goddess battles a deceitful system to free her people from a social system's life draining conditions.
In a retrofuturistic world (best of the 80s, 90s and today) a failing content creator gets inspired by the woman from the TV.
After a bad day at work, David (Andre Hall - Tyler Perry's LOVE THY NEIGHBOR TV series) literally runs into Hannah (Marion Kerr - DARK SKIES / HEART OF NOW), a beautiful and strange young woman. For their first date, David nervously tries to create the perfect evening but Hannah's odd yet charming behavior turns dinner into a disaster. Trying to salvage the night, he proposes a 'do-over' and takes her on the ultimate first-date adventure. As the magical evening comes to a close, David discovers there's more to learn about Hannah than he could ever possibly imagine.
Mars is a drama/sci-fi short film based in a not too distant future. Ethan and Violet are standing on opposite train platforms. They are set to travel in different directions yet a common interest undeniably entwines their destinies. Without speaking a word they must find a means of connection before their trains arrive to whisk them away.
A tribute to 70's Sci-Fi - The light of the seventh crystal is missing since Izonor, the robot magnate, stole it and hid it in a mysterious location. Fortunately, Bruce Gallagan won’t stop till he recovers the precious artefact. The coordinates point to an isolated planet where everything is possible. Despite the efforts of the Admiral to talk them out, Bruce and Lena embark on their greatest adventure to date
After a devastating tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he’s forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.
A deadly sound transmitted from space known as The Signal, corrupts the minds of all who hear it, turning them into soulless demons under its control.
The story of how Ellie got to space.
An Alien gets banished and discovers a human way to retaliate.
An unlikely friendship forms between an engineer on earth and a satellite venturing to the furthest reaches of space.
The Princess, with a burning desire for eternal beauty, sends out a bounty to hunt Lil Moses, the last of the Indigo Elf tribe.
G-Rail is a modern adaptation of the Arthurian myth of the Grail. Perceval Gallois arrives at a meeting urged by the sudden sickness of his mentor, Arthur Brenin. Gawain Hawk introduces him to a plan to save Arthur´s life by means of an extremely dangerous experiment. This leads him into an extreme and fantastic trip to endure G-forces, trascend the limits of human knowledge and discover the secret of the Grail.
A young stargazer cadet who's working for a mysterious agency decides to disobey direct orders and ends up in the middle of a close encounter conflict that forces her to decide where her true alliances reside.
Hunting for Black Holes is a dangerous business and it's only getting deadlier.
The artificial intelligence assistant is trying to complete the painting so that she can help her poor master. But this painting annoys her arrogant master.
Noah has not accepted the death of his mother, an astronaut. In order to move on, he must break that which still connects them.
A broken and haunted ship technician and an ambitious young officer's paths collide when ordered to investigate a Ghost Ship secretly. The two become compelled to fulfill an ancient destiny.
Two shipwrecked astronauts fight over how to get rescued from an alien desert.
The mysterious disappearance of every human on earth leaves a service robot wondering what his purpose is.
Two companions on an unmanned research ship discover the value of their friendship as their decades-long mission towards the sun comes to an end.
Under the cover of darkness, a teenage girl attempts to escape her tormented reality, determined to find her missing father with the help of her best friend and a mysterious device.
Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow the story of office clerk Amouf. Amouf desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker, following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups and Amouf is not a brave character. Will he be strong enough to resist?
The sole survivor of a crashed ship, Cass (Liza Scholtz) awakens in a strange and hostile alternate version of Earth. Devoid of any memory, her only clue is a mysterious device she carries with her that is continuously counting down towards an unknown climax. Pursued by ruthless scavengers and a terrifying, preternatural entity, Cass must learn her true identity and unravel the mystery surrounding her crash.
A brother and sister's reunion picnic at a stone circle in the English countryside is disrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest.
When Amadeus Klein loses the one person he loves to the brutality of an authoritarian nation, he must focus all his genius into a new project that could bring him back some happiness amidst such a chaotic world.
A mother competes with a sentient food making machine for her adult son’s affection.
On the run, a pair of genetically enhanced twins must come face to face with their inner demons in order to survive in the physical world.
At the request of his dying father, SOLAR BLADER embarks on a cosmic odyssey in search of an all-knowing entity.
In the year 2143, a young woman confronts her childhood trauma within a Virtual Reality therapy session, only to discover her inner demons are real.
AD 613, Viking warriors witness an alien ship crash-landing on Scandinavia.
A brilliant but antisocial young woman on a four year mission to an alien planet faces her inner demons while realizing there may be a more immediate danger onboard her own ship.
In the fight against extinction, it’s all hands on deck. Watch war machines, mercenaries, and vampires who’ll do whatever it takes to defend their own in our anthology, "Military".
Life has been rearranged and displaced – a penguin wanders through the Australian desert. A giant squid lies dead on a remote dirt road. And at night, menacing lights patrol the sky.
In a Futuristic Cyberpunk Thailand, a lone warrior must battle both his own karma, and the forces of evil, without using violence.
When Arthur’s wife, Maggie, is taken into a nursing home, his daughter buys him a care robot. Frustrated by his lack of independence, Arthur is no fan of his new 'carer', but things take a darker turn when she begins to block his attempts to call Maggie. Desperate to make contact and feeling like a prisoner in his own home, Arthur plans to escape to the nursing home to be with Maggie again.
A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside.
Hackers aren't the worst thing that can break into your zoom meeting.
Richard James, AKA "Reaper Rick," a simple Red-blooded, paranoid, country man is caught in the middle of the strangest day of his life.
Navel Gazers is a dark comedy that takes place in a society where humanity has become so engrossed with their mobile devices that their spines have developed permanent and inheritable curvatures – a society that is perpetually navel gazing.
When a neuroscientist experiments with memory technology to explore one day in her past, she finds herself in a potentially lethal situation.
After a global nuclear war has turned earth into a scorched wasteland, a struggling group of survivors discovers a secret fall-out shelter that offers a new beginning - but not without a catch.
Lucas Bridges finds himself stranded on a distant planet. Haunted by longing for his husband back home, Lucas drinks himself to sleep while spending his days hiking to call for help on a radio with a dying battery. After a brush with death Lucas goes out for another call where he makes an unexpected connection with a man (Joe) stranded on the moon orbiting his planet. Desperate for camaraderie, sparks fly and they talk for hours without realizing Lucas' battery is nearly empty. Joe offers an attempt to get to the planet so they don't have to be so alone. Lucas' thoughts flash to his husband and he's brought to a crossroads - hold on to what he had or embrace where he is right now.
In a near future humanity has been forced to flee the Earth, a planet now uninhabitable due to wars and climatic turmoils.
When a troublemaking teen reprograms the supervising robot his single mother has left him with, he ends up in her shoes when the once innocent companion begins to disobey him.
100 years in the future, the Earth is cold and barren. Robot siblings Vera and Sprocket have just lost their creator. As they struggle to process their grief, other dangers in their world manifest.
Longing to say goodbye, Gabby has taken up her mother's quest to find something that no one has ever found, a rare natural phenomenon she calls: Outbound Gravity. A small hidden pocket where the effects of gravity are reversed, which may give her the incredible opportunity to travel to the edge of space and confront a missed opportunity.
Billie is full of life. She lives and breathes each emotion that overtakes her, and she loves it.
A derelict spaceship becomes self-aware and builds itself a mechanical body in order to feel alive.
Two dairy farmers go out looking for a cow gone missing. Their search leads them deep into a mystery that will have them questioning themselves and the world as they know it.
In a dystopian society where retired seniors get executed, a death cleaner finds himself in a dilemma when he encounters a lone resident, who is supposed to be expired and perished.
A rich man dies and arrives in the afterlife where he receives his orientation while his soul uploads.
One of the last remaining scientists on Europa, battles a sense of deep loneliness and the impending demise of humans efforts to make the Jupiter moon habitable.
A team of five elite soldiers are sent to the jungle to investigate a mysterious Anomaly but are met by an unexpected foe.
THE DRAFT uses the exciting setting of a TV lottery to address the lack of freedom women can face when it comes to motherhood.
Melody Skylark receives an ominous message in her bowl of alphabet soup warning of a supernatural war and discovers she's Earth's only hope in the face of an otherworldly threat.
Set in a not too distant future small town, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a new dopamine game cartridge before she goes through happiness withdrawal.
In a futuristic wasteland, an overconfident marauder and his robot companion pillage an abandoned bunker and have an unexpected encounter.
A young woman finds herself in a frozen wasteland.
In a future farming facility, a permanent tenant of virtual reality receives a rogue transmission.
A cavern world over-exploiting it's energy and resources through the struggle of the pawns against the king is at risk for self destruction. How will they save it?
An orphaned girl seeks revenge on the creature that destroyed her home, but discovers more in its lair than she bargained for.
An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear. But things aren't always what they seem on the desolate wasteland frontier.
An engineer at a major tech company sneaks a skeptical journalist inside to interview what he believes is the first sentient AI.
An engineer at a major tech company sneaks a skeptical journalist inside to interview what he believes is the first sentient AI.
An engineer at a major tech company sneaks a skeptical journalist inside to interview what he believes is the first sentient AI.
There is a boy who is playing a Role Playing Game (RPG) in the internet cafe and has reached to the level 20 of the game and wishes his character to be a magician but the character desires to be a warrior.
In the near future, people only wake up in odd-numbered or even-numbered years and hibernate during their inactive period. An Odd Citizen, Renée, applies to change her active period to even-numbered years to escape from a toxic relationship.
Riley, an explorer is being chased by another spaceship, he carries something that contains the salvation of his planet. In his escape, he may change the course of history itself.
In a futuristic realm where colossal robots clash in epic battles, a fearless female warrior rises against a formidable mechanical giant, embodying the spirit of David and Goliath in a high-octane showdown for the ages.
After a devastating natural disaster, James Mann is the last man on Earth. Trapped in a bunker, his only companion is WebCam, a very loyal camera robot. James is broken, alone, and ready to give up... until WebCam receives a mysterious transmission that will change their world forever.
A nefarious man breaks into a woman’s home. After a short struggle, he sedates her and proceeds to navigate through her memories. She was a witness to a murder and his mission is to edit her memories before the lineup. In the depths of her mind he finds a truth about himself.
A man decides to take his future into his own hands by entering a forever sleep pod. Once activated his life flashes before his eyes, reliving every moment, the good, the bad, and the traumatic. He must decide to escape the pressure or to fall asleep, permanently.
Ivy and Dave are totally hitting it off... until she says the wrong thing and completely freaks him out. Typical. But tonight's no ordinary night. There's a glitch in the Matrix, déjà vu in the air, and Ivy gets the chance to see how things will turn out if she plays the dating game differently.
When her bionic boyfriend Ethan proposes, Jackie finally feels like she has found her happily ever after— until a chance encounter with another human shows her how messy love can really be.
Weeks after a mysterious time-compression event violently splices environments from the past into the present, two survivors encounter the foreboding figures responsible for the event and experience firsthand their sinister nature.
When two sisters are hunted by mysterious creatures, they find themselves in a race against time race as one of them falls ill. After one of them tragically dies, a surprising discovery about their true identities comes to light.
With the police unable to help, Emily takes it upon herself to investigate the disappearance of her partner. A small clue leads her to the discovery of an unregulated world far removed from her own. Soon, Emily's journey to reconnect becomes a struggle for survival.
In the near future, when environmental disaster threatens humanity and oxygen is scarce, Satchel, a former baseball pitcher, must fight to survive after turning her back on a group of violent murderers who are now hot on her heels.
A widow tries to reunite with her deceased husband inside a dream. She turns to the illegal services of a 'Sleep Dealer' who sells hand-tailored dreams... And nightmares.
Peter lost everything he loved at young age. In a world devastated by war, there is little hope left for him. In all this darkness, Peter finds a long-forgotten sense of happiness in form of an unexpected friendship with robot named Neven.
London 2091. Two service androids, a male and a female, have been abandoned in an apartment after the city evacuation. After several decades, the female android wants to know what is outside the door.
A young woman and her decommissioned military droid struggle to escape a nuclear exclusion zone, hoping to find a better life on the outside-- free from the oppression of the forces that keep her there.
After her father is brutally murdered by mysterious outlaws, an ex-military special operative decides to take matters into her own hands and enlists the help of an unsuspecting young cargo pilot along the way.
Lucas Anderson is an insular IT technician whose life is turned upside down when he stumbles across a mysterious email and its reality bending contents.
DUST is delving into the Emotion Archive to bring your life meaning. File #1: Evolution. Does life feel futile? If you need more meaning in your life, DUST will download some for you now. It is the duty of DUST to monitor your psychological conditions. Do not worry, the Emotion Archives will correct your consciousness.
Can a robot explain spacetime to you with a poem? DUST is delving into the Emotion Archive to bring your life meaning. File #2: Spacetime. Does life feel futile? If you need more meaning in your life, DUST will download some for you now. It is the duty of DUST to monitor your psychological conditions. Do not worry, the Emotion Archives will correct your consciousness.
Virtual Reality has been depicted in science fiction for decades. Filmmakers imagined what the VR landscape would look like and what effects it could have on the users. As virtual reality devices become more common in real life it's interesting to look back and see what they got right. Enjoy this first episode of Sci-Fi Artifacts - our new series where we delve deep into different aspects of the science fiction world.
How have the roles offered to women in science fiction films and series changed throughout history? We went back in time for an in-depth exploration into the evolution of women in Hollywood sci-fi.
We need Afrofuturism; not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we see the future. It’s a future where black people are not only included, but are in control of their own destinies.
We need Afrofuturism; not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we imagine and actualize an inclusive future. A future where black people are in control of their own destinies.
What kind of message is sent when future worlds are depicted without black people?
In episode three of DUST’s Afrofuturism series, George Clinton and the almighty Mothership emerge from a cloud of green gas to funk up the universe and expand the mythology of the philosophical and artistic lens that would later come to be known as Afrofuturism. From getting funky in front of a massive crowd on the moon to breaking bread with Jimi Hendrix and Sun Ra, George Clinton’s ultra funky contributions to the galaxy only serve to reinforce the idea that all motherships are connected.
In this episode of Afrofuturism, DUST presents the animated story of that fateful night. Originally intended to be a friendly jam session between God (Clapton) and one of his biggest fans, the then unknown Hendrix, Clapton walked off-stage in the middle of Hendrix’s solo, stunned by the no-name’s guitar wizardry. Hendrix’s performance that night forged a brotherhood with Clapton and is just one of many such stories of his mind-blowing performances that would carve out his place in rock n’ roll history as the unmatched greatest guitarist of all-time (according to Rolling Stone). Hendrix’s infatuation with science fiction, and his commitment to technological (and psychedelic) experimentation, pushed him to make his guitar sound like anything but, and has inspired artists of many genres to embrace their individuality ever since.
Missy was the first popular black artist to make explicit, recurring use of science-fiction in her visual offerings. For this reason, and because of the lack of representation of Black people in science-fiction films, Missy’s work can be viewed through the lens of Afrofuturism.
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America.
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Episode 1 by Van Alan
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Episode 2 by Van Alan
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Episode 3 by Van Alan
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Episode 4 by Van Alan
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Episode 5 by Van Alan
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America. "Automata" Epilogue by Van Alan
If you could control all your devices from a tattoo on your arm, would you feel safer? What if that sense of security was an illusion? “Circuits” presents a glimpse into the future of...body modification.
The birth of a child makes every parent nervous. Technology makes the process safer, but our biological impulse to worry still seeps into the experience - no matter what. “The Stork” is a glimpse into the future of...birth.
What happens when a chef takes his craft from experimental to extreme? What would you pay to savor a food that’s never been tasted before? “Sebastian Moller” is a glimpse into the future of...haute cuisine.
Understanding each other makes the world feel smaller. If you knew every language, would any barriers to communication still exist? “Esperanto” is a glimpse into the future of...conversation. Captions in the Esperanto language provided by DUST community member, Raúl J García.
If your best friend was sick how far would you go to help? What if that friend was a robot dog? “Sparky” is a glimpse into the future of...pets.
What happens when something created to help you becomes a thing you can't live without? "Day 180" is a glimpse into the future of...addiction.
It's easy to rely on technology to make life easier, but what do you do when it fails? "Analog Boy" is a glimpse into the future of...our virtual lives.
We can't predict where the world is going, but it doesn't have to be a scary dark dystopia. "The Tomorrow Night Show" is a glimpse of...a brighter future.
This sci-fi horror stop-motion web series is about a corporation that unleashes a plague of bio-mechanical parasites on its workers. The web series picks up where the short left off, following workers that escape the initial infection as they fight back against the company. Chaos grows as upper level employees turn against the company, the mastermind of the bio-mechanical parasites seeks to take control of the company, and everyone deals with the fallout of the Rhizomect system. ("Operator Ep 1" by Sam Barnett)
This sci-fi horror stop-motion web series is about a corporation that unleashes a plague of bio-mechanical parasites on its workers. The web series picks up where the short left off, following workers that escape the initial infection as they fight back against the company. Chaos grows as upper level employees turn against the company, the mastermind of the bio-mechanical parasites seeks to take control of the company, and everyone deals with the fallout of the Rhizomect system.
In the near future, drone technology has advanced and a new weapon has been unleashed - a humanoid drone stronger and faster than any soldier. But in the aftermath of a mysterious incident, damaged battle drone 237 is forced to go on the run with its programmer to try and take down their corrupt commander.
This week we watch all five episodes of the sci-fi dark comedy series "Who You Are" on Sunday Night DUST, with a bonus showing of "The Leap"
The accidental invention of an a*hole AI spells trouble for a tech startup in the late 80’s. While trying to construct a machine capable of providing the world’s most accurate personality quiz, three computer engineers in a small garage in Silicon Valley accidentally stumble upon a full-fledged artificial intelligence that can read souls. The rise and fall of their company, the Mundi Corporation, is told over the course of five episodes.
The accidental invention of an a*hole AI spells trouble for a tech startup in the late 80’s. While trying to construct a machine capable of providing the world’s most accurate personality quiz, three computer engineers in a small garage in Silicon Valley accidentally stumble upon a full-fledged artificial intelligence that can read souls. The rise and fall of their company, the Mundi Corporation, is told over the course of five episodes.
DUST and Den of Geek teamed up to livestream the first episode of Other Space and host a Q&A with the creator Paul Feig and the Cast. Here is the Other Space Q&A in full (fan questions, cocktail recipes, and zoom dropouts included!) with Paul Feig, Karan Soni, Conor Leslie, Bess Rous, Eugene Cordero, and Neil Casey. Stick around to the end for Paul Feig's special Other Space cocktail recipe.
A young and inexperienced crew venture into space to face mysterious clouds, folds in time and the occasional alien attack, as well as more household challenges.
Official music video for "Dolly.Zero" by Antoine Debarge. Dolly and Silvio are in love forever.
When Val Mayfield returns to her rural home of Poe County to bury her deceased father, she discovers a message from beyond the grave - setting off a perilous journey into a mysterious place found between life and death.
When A.I. starts cancelling humans. A music video for the song "Algorithm" by Makeup + Vanity Set.
When Off-World Officer Cole Freeman finds the missing research vessel ATROPA, he discovers an inconsistency in the ship logs. He wakes the crew from hypersleep, and they soon find themselves caught up in a much bigger mystery.
After their mysterious collision, the crew must act fast to save the critically damaged ship. With power failing, Cole makes a bold decision.
After a disaster on the sister ship and a troubling discovery, Moira patches Cole up. Jensen works on finding a solution to their predicament.
Flashback to Cole’s time as a detective on Earth. An important event from Cole and Moira’s past is revealed. Captain Schreiber gives Cole a choice on Valley Forge Outpost.
Moira informs the crew how Sanders’ copy died. Cole is put on the defensive. An unfortunate choice reveals a horrible new truth.
With power failing, the remaining crew search for Sanders. The group splits, and Sanders makes his move.
SEASON FINALE: All hope is seemingly lost when a potential solution presents itself. The remaining crew must act fast if they are ever going to break the cycle
Celebrate Black History Month with DUST's "Black Voices in Sci-Fi". Featuring: "Stevie's Aliens" by Austin S. Harris (0:00-15:42) A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO. "Jonah" by Kibwe Tavares (15:43- 32:49) 2 friends, 1 giant fish, and the photo that changed their world. "Phoenix Run: Home" by TJ Walker & Rick Walters (32:50-42:24) A street smart smuggler Marky is on the run from a bounty hunter and his infected henchmen. Marky flees to the only family he's ever known, former superhero Ma Jones AKA Thunder. "Details to Follow" by Michael P. Spencer (42:25- 47:25) A young couple's evening at home is rapidly thrown into confusion, chaos and disaster. How well do they really know each other?
Ex-NASA astronaut Max Levodolinsky readies his piece-of-junk space freighter for his latest transpo run to the Moon—while bickering with Space Traffic Control, his husband, his boss, and… his new pilot-in-training?!?
Despite his objections, Max is forced to take on fresh astronautics graduate Tommie al-Qasimi. She accidentally unleashes a computer virus that could kill them both after discovering that she can’t stand Max’s taste in music.
Max and Tommie race against the clock as the virus takes over their ship and thrusts them into the crosshairs of Earth’s orbital defense systems. To Tommie’s dismay, Max makes the most of some very teachable moments.
Tommie’s boyfriend busts her for using autoreplies to his love letters. But a heart-to-heart about the future reveals a new and even deeper issue between Tommie and Max.
After finding out that Tommie is Max’s replacement, the conversation gets super awkward. But they have to change the subject when their ship gets hit by space junk traveling 10,000 mph.
Everything in their ship got hit…including Max. Now he and Tommie have to cobble together a plan to save their lives as the ship tumbles out of control. But that doesn’t stop them from continuing to argue about music.
Looks like the training portion of the flight is over. Can Tommie show that she’s got the right stuff? Will Max survive the hull-walk from hell? Is the Tsiolkovsky on a one-way trip to oblivion…?