Étiquette : FX

Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘Rise’ – by David Karlak 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…

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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘From the Future with Love’ – by K-Michel Parandi 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…

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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘The Candidate’ – by David Karlak 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…

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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘Similo’ – by Zac & Mac 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.  Official…

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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘The iMOM’ – by Ariel Martin When our technology turns on us, who is to blame? 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.” By the time the curtains closed on this short film, we didn’t doubt for one moment whose to blame.  Be careful to watch, as Katharine Trendacosta from i09 warns…

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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh ‘The Decelerators’ – by Mark Slutsky 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. Steve Kopian of Unseen Films…

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