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You gotta give it to these would-be filmmakers who like a movie franchise so much they decided to invest their own money to make a short fan film. Hell, I wish I had that kind of gumption, or talent, but honestly, I don’t. Robert Kouba does, and he’s making a “Transformers” short film called “The Last Energon Crystal”, and he’s put together this 90-second teaser trailer to give you a taste of what he has in store. Check it out below.
Still waiting for those “Matrix” sequels? Well, it’s probably not gonna happen. Until then, check out this full-length, nearly hour long fan film based on “The Matrix” by French filmmakers Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard. It’s not entirely bad, though of course, they are hampered by a limited budget. Still, the boys did alright with what they had to work with.
Can’t get enough of dark and foreboding futuristic “what if?” sci-fi stories? You’re in luck. German filmmaker Krystof Zlatnik has a 30-minute short film called “Das Leuchten” (aka “Reverence”) that exposes the dark side of yet another possible sci-fi future.
Filmmaker Can Eren sent over his self-described “Turkish steam punk” short film “Ahnectha: Voiceless Room”. Check it out below.
Everything will end after the deep silence. You will have daughters who stay because of the voices within. And then we will silence their voices. And all of a sudden we will remind them of their own voices. Then this will bring their end too.
In Pixels, an impossibly well done short by Patrick Jean, the arcade games from the past go on a gigantic spree of 8 bit assimilation in the streets and skyline of New York. Hard to imagine that Patrick wasn’t inked to a deal pretty fast after this film hit the streets. Funny but kind of scary too. A cautionary tale about the rise of the nanobots?
Mr. Ridley Scott has a cadre of talented directors he keeps penned up under his Ridley Scott Associates banner. It’s kind of like a record label I guess, where I’m sure Ridley downloads his most excellent skills to the likes of Carl Erik Rinsch and Johnny Hardstaff (not his porn name).
Some of you out there may remember the teaser for Spike Jonze’s (“Where The Wild Things Are”) old school computer headed romance called “I’m Here”. It made it’s way to Sundance in it’s fullness and now is appearing online in it’s 35 minute glory.
I’ve watched this very well done, compelling and deeply bizarre Sci-Fi short “Connected” a couple of times now, trying desperately to find a hook that will lead to a pithy caption or comment, but I can’t find anything. The thing is Sci-Fi Teflon for my imagination. Or maybe it’s Monday.
Via GammaSquad, here’s a look at a 5-minute short film from director Ryan Nagata, who made the film on a $2000 budget (I find that hard to believe, I mean, they have tanks and stuff!), and is intended as an example of what he could do in case a studio or producer decided to give him the money to make a feature-length film version. Honestly, I have no idea how he made this for $2000, it looks like it might have cost $10000 at least.
Back a bit, Adam Berg directed “Carousel”, an amazing piece of film, freeze framing in a 2 minute and 19 second tracking shot a robbery gone horribly wrong. It was epic and was chosen as the Film Grand Prix Winner at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Terri Tatchell, with an Oscar nomination in her pants for co-writing “District 9″ alongside Neill Blomkamp, is working on adapting the wicked and bizarre short film “Terminus” for her next writing project. She’s apparently on her second draft, trying hard to figure out a way to make what you are about to see make sense to a “District 9″ size audience.
Warning, the footage you are about to watch and techo-lust over does not exist as a real movie. You’ll wish it was real and you’ll dream of owning and using almost everything in the thing, but alas, it’s all in the mind and considerable editing talents of Jaron Pitts, who put this baby together from scraps of other films for a pretend trailer for the Serbian comic “Technotise”. Apparently, some producer types are looking to gather up some cash to bring “Technotise” to the screen in reality. Problem is of course that any film that actually gets made will look like poop compared to Mr. Pitt’s work.
“Pumzi” is a very interesting short film about life in Kenya after the world water wars. In a highly restricted underground community, a woman discovers a small seedling and fights to bring it to the dried out and barren surface. The short film is very pro and has that old school Moon feeling. “Pumzi” is being screened at the Sundance film fest and will I’m sure get a permanent host on the internets sometime soon. Ironic that a Sci-Fi short film of this quality can’t get a hosting in Kenya because the infrastructure there is, for now, too primitive. Wired has an interview with writer/director Wanuri Kahiu that is worth your time. Here’s a clip.
Spike Jonze, director of the weirdly disturbing but great “Where The Wild Things Are”, has made a little 30 minute film called “I’m Here”, sponsored oddly by Absolute Vodka. I suppose funding is funding but I’m betting Spike isn’t hard up for sponsorship these days. No matter who pays the bills, this story of two droids in love looks pretty interesting. The male bots head looks exactly like a PC I once had (and maybe still do). “I’m Here” is due to be premiered at the Sundance Film Fest. Fast Company interviewed Mark Figliulio and Matt Bijarchi, the producers of the film. Thanks Io9.
After a bottle or two of Romulan ale, Sulu apparently took a wrong turn and drove the Enterprise into the deep end of someones pool. Will the shields hold?
