Category: Science fiction

Science fiction films explore futuristic concepts and technological advancements.

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Comedy Science fiction

Running the Gammatar (2013)

Running the Gammatar (2013)
Running the Gammatar (2013)

Plot:

Running the Gammatar is a lovely story about a young couple trying to negotiate a relationship while their city is being terrorized by a giant fire-breathing monster. It’s like rom-com meets Japanese monster movie, except this monster is uglier than any version of Godzilla, and his name is Gammatar. Joe Kramer’s short film is a comedy about a group of self-centered 20-somethings trying to have the time of their life in a city under constant attack from a giant, Godzilla/Gojira look-a-like Japanese monster.

Running the Gammatar (2013) Review:

“Pure fun” – Ain’t It Cool News
“Wry, funny [and] perceptive” – Kuriositas
“[A] comedy in the best indie-style: fast dialogue, loud colors, and some hip indie pop-songs on the soundtrack.” – Die Zeit Online
Video of the Week – The Awardeo Company Vimeo Staff Pick

Cast and Crew:

Directed by Joe Kramer
Starring: Joe Kramer, Jessica Bernard, Richard Thomas Everill III

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Animation Science fiction

Artificial Paradise, Inc. (2010)

Artificial Paradise, Inc. (2010)

Sterile subterranean world of tomorrow

Artificial Paradise, Inc is a futuristic/chaotic 3-D animation anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten… what is he searching for?

Visually impressive CG film that is reminiscent of Lucas’ THX1138 and the sterile and heavily computerized subterranean world, where sex is forbidden, mankind lives in vast underground cities and free will is outlawed by means of mandatory medication that controls human emotion.

Jean-Paul Frenay is a Creative Director/ Film Director and multidisciplinary Visual Artist living in Belgium. Born in Siegen, he spent his youth in Germany before moving to Brussels to begin his studies. His particular vision and the quality of his films made him graduate with honors from the InRaCi Film School. After a specialization in visual effects, he started his career as a flame artist where he developed his skills which gave him the confidence to start directing. He took his first steps directing commercials and quickly became known for his ability to mix many different techniques, including live action, stop motion animation, CGI, miniatures, motion design, video mapping and photographic artworks.

Directed by Jean-Paul Frenay

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Action Science fiction

The Raven (2010)

The Raven (2010)

Amazing Science-Fiction short film Raven (2010)

Amazing Science-Fiction short film Raven (2010) is set in 2074 Los Angeles, the film portrays Chris Black (Víctor López), a young man of mysterious powers persecuted by the LAPD.

With budget of $5,000, Raven was part of the short film wave that hit Hollywood when many up-and-coming filmmakers, with studio aspirations, released their own mini-movies in the hopes of catching a ride on the Hollywood comet. Universal has acquired the rights to Ricardo De Montreuil’s short film The Raven. Mark Wahlberg is producing the feature-length project alongside partner Steve Levinson.

Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil.
Starring: Victor Lopez, Antonio Perez, Delaney Bishop

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Action Science fiction

Project Arbiter (2014)

Project Arbiter (2014)

1943. Thousands of feet above Northern Europe a small plane carries a skeleton crew of the Allies best, including special operative captain Joseph Colburn. His handler, major Thomas Hardy does a final review of the mission’s grim intel: infiltrate a mysterious villa on the Polish border and uncover its secrets. Colburn emerges donning a prototype suit, which can temporarily render its user invisible. As the plane’s bay doors howl open Colburn begins to put on the skull-faced helmet when the plane is rocked by an anti-aircraft shell. Rapidly losing air pressure and altitude, now there’s no question… This is a one-way mission.

I love retro-futurism. Like Hellboy and a slew of Steampunk related movies, merging current day (or future) technology with the resources available in times past creates fascinating alternative-reality story lines. These types of films don’t have many limitations so long as the baseline historical context (in this case WWII) remains intact. Sure, it requires a deeper suspension of disbelief, but if one achieves that, a good story of this kind can be just as interesting as movies projecting from current day technology into the opposite direction (into the future). You know, like Blade Runner or Star Trek in their time. Excellent cinematography, acting, plot and use of CGI.

Directed by Michael Chance. Starring: Alexis Cassar, Jake Lyall, Tim Coyne

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Adventure Science fiction

Phoenix 9 (2014)

Phoenix 9 (2014)

Phoenix 9 (2014) – Post Nuclear War Survival Drama

2039 A.D. – After a global, thermo-nuclear war has wiped out most of humanity, a tight-knit group of survivors discovers a secret that changes everything they thought about their world, and tempts them to turn against each other.

Phoenix 9 marks the debut for the German team of Amir Reichart (director & editor) and Peer Gopfrich (writer & producer). The short is a proof-of-concept based on a feature screenplay by Peer Gopfrich. This is definitely one that I could see being fleshed out to a major motion picture.

Amir Reichart was born as Amir Salama Reichart. He is a director and editor, known for Phoenix 9 (2014), Warrior (2014) and Waffenbrüder (2010).

Directed by Amir Reichart.
Written by: Peer Gopfrich. Starring: Mike Davies, Daniela Flynn, Nora Huetz

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Science fiction

I.R.I.S. (2014)

I.R.I.S. (2014)

Short film IRIS is a powerful vision of a future society

Short film IRIS is set un the near future where nano tech driven drones are used for reconnaissance missions and social surveillance. These drones are run by IRIS, an advanced A.I system, which soon begins to unleash an attack upon mankind the likes of which we have never seen. A high concept short film set in the near future, where the latest in nano tech driven Drones are used for reconnaissance missions and social surveillance in order for the government to control society on a global level, feeding daily information into the most sophisticated and advanced decision making server known as I.R.I.S.

Powerful vision of a possible dystopian society

I.R.I.S. is another fun and stylish scifi short from director Hasraf HaZ Dulull, a Visual Effects Creative and Writer / Director in the Motion Pictures Industry, going under the name of HaZ. Nominated for several Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards for his Visual Effects Supervision work. He transitioned into Writing / Directing with his sci-fi short – ‘Project Kronos’ earning him representation and status as an emerging film maker. Variety announced soon after the short film was released, that Project Kronos is in development as a feature film at BenderSpink / Armory films / IAM Entertainment. HaZ is represented as a Writer / Director for Feature Film by Scott Glassgold at I AM Entertainment.

Cast and Crew

Directed by Hasraf HaZ Dulull. Starring: Noeleen Comiskey, Colin Emerson, Melissa Graham

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Adventure Science fiction

Wanderers (2014)

Wanderers (2014)

Beautiful short film Wanderers by Erik Wernquist and narration by Carl Sagan is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea with the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds – and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

Ever since I started out in computer graphics, character animation has always been my focus and is what I consider my primary skill. But due to a large variety in working environments and the fact that I am self taught in computer graphics, I have a rather wide range of knowledge and experience in many, if not all, aspects of the field. My background in theatre has left me with a passion for writing and directing, which is why I on several occasions have taken breaks from animation to work with live action projects. – Erik Wernquist

THIS FILM WAS MADE WITH USE OF PHOTOS AND TEXTURES FROM: NASA/JPL, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, ESA, John Van Vliet, Björn Jonsson

Directed by Erik Wernquist

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Comedy Science fiction

Time Trap (2014)

Time Trap (2014)

Time Trap (2014) – Astronaut Comedy

Hillarious comedy about a godforsaken astronaut who discovers a time machine on a post-apocalyptic Earth. It sounds silly but it really might be the funniest thing you can do with time travel. It’s a wonderfully fun short film, one that puts a clever and funny spin on time travel tropes.

Michael Shanks is a Melbourne based, New Zealand born Independent Film-maker who is very uneasy about self promoting himself on the internet.

Directed by Michael Shanks.

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Science fiction

The Landing (2013)

The Landing (2013)

The Landing (2013) – Something Extraordinary Landed on Australian Farm

A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960. Production filmed at the left over barn from the Kent farm set built for the production of Superman Returns (2006) in Breeza, New South Wales, Australia. THE LANDING is a Drama/Sci Fi short film produced by Perception Pictures as part of the late QPIX White Heat initiative.

Filmed in 2013 in Australia over the course of eight days on the Arri Alexa camera for approximately seventy thousand US dollars, The Landing was inspired, Tanner told dreadcentral.com, “From a dream I had where I was unearthing a buried spaceship in the middle of farmland. I became obsessed with the idea of the suppression of a UFO landing by the farmers on the land which it came down on, opposed to a government cover-up. It was a great seed to build a story around and figure out when and how it got there and whose perspective it would be told from. I was inspired by a lot of the great paranoia sci-fi of the 50’s and unabashedly Spielberg, Kubrick, and Terrence Malick.”

Directed by Josh Tanner. Starring: Henry Nixon, David Roberts, Tom Usher

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Drama Science fiction

The 3rd Letter (2010)

The 3rd Letter (2010)

The 3rd Letter (2010) – dystopian bio-mechanical vision!

The 3rd Letter is a distinctive dystopian vision where humans utterly depend on bio-mechanical alteration to withstand the deteriorated climate. Set against a polluted megalopolis world, the tragic tale of Jeffrey Brief unfolds. Faced with imminent loss of his crucial health insurance, Brief unwittingly unravels the dark truth behind population control that pushes him to unspeakable lengths. Grzegorz Jonkajtys is an award winning Polish writer and director and it is best known for the short movie Ark for which he has been nominated to Golden Palm at Cannes film festival in 2007 and won Siggraph Electronic Theater “Best of Show” award in the same year. Over the years, the contributed as vfx artist and animation lead for films like Sin City, Hellboy, Blade III, Pan’s Labyrinth, Mist and Terminator Salvation.

Presented by Marauder Film
Directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys
Written by Grzegorz Jonkajtys & Bastiaan Koch
Produced by Bastiaan Koch

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Science fiction

2084 (2016)

2084 (2016)

2084 (2016) – Big Brother is Watching You in Dystopian Future!

This amazing film by Taz Goldstein is based upon a dystopian novel 1984 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government’s invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as “thoughtcrime.” The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party “seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor’s list, and 6 on the readers’ list.

2084 is an experimental sci-fi/comedy was filmed in director Taz Goldstein’s living room. Its plot is placed in the distant future where society is slowly being crushed into conformity by an all-powerful computer. One individual is surprisingly ignorant to the malevolent machine’s relentless conditioning.

Taz Goldstein is an award-winning director and producer, and co-founder of Chaos Theory Entertainment. He directed for Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Fox Television Studios, and Sony Pictures, as well as numerous corporate and commercial clients including Adobe, Microsoft, Nissan, Fuji, and The Cheesecake Factory. His work has been featured on the big screen, the small screen, and the really small screen. He is also writing for Hand Held Hollywood, a mobile filmmaking blog launched in 2009. official page

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Science fiction TV series

H+: The Digital Series (2011)

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A man wakes up in a hospital and realizes that everybody on earth is dead. Though he thinks. He then starts doing weird stuff like having sex with dead bodies and smashing stuff.

H+: The Digital Series (H+) is a web series produced by Bryan Singer and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso.

Stars: David Clayton Rogers, Francesca Fanti, Hannah Herzsprung

Episodes
Ep. Title Airdate
1 “Driving Under” August 8, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 5 minutes before it happened.
2 “On Their Level” August 8, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 15 seconds after it happened.
3 “Prophetess” August 15, 2012
Helsinki, Finland, 7 years before it happened.
4 “Airport Security” August 15, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 1 minute after it happened.
5 “A Large Family” August 15, 2012
Mumbai, India, 5 months before it happened.
6 “Voci Dal Sud” August 15, 2012
Oria, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
7 “Implanted” August 22, 2012
Mumbai, India, 5 months before it happened.
8 “Makeshift Engineering” August 22, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 45 minutes after it happened.
9 “The Snow Viper” August 22, 2012
Helsinki, Finland, 7 years before it happened.
10 “Out” August 29, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 50 minutes after it happened.
11 “Manta” August 29, 2012
Helsinki, Finland, 7 years before it happened.
12 “Searching Over” August 29, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 20 hours after it happened.
13 “Questions?” September 5, 2012
Portland, Oregon, 5 years before it happened.
14 “The Gates” September 5, 2012
San Vito, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
15 “Their Connection” September 12, 2012
Mumbai, India, 3 months before it happened.
16 “From Above” September 12, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 2 days after it happened.
17 “Salmiakki” September 19, 2012
Helsinki, Finland, 7 years before it happened.
18 “Advent” September 19, 2012
Oria, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
19 “7500 Kilometers” September 26, 2012
Mumbai, India, 1 month before it happened.
20 “Partenza” September 26, 2012
Oria, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
21 “Managing” October 3, 2012
Dublin, Ireland, 4 years before it happened.
22 “Road Block” October 3, 2012
Southern Italy, 2 years after it happened.
23 “The King” October 10, 2012
Dublin, Ireland, 3 weeks before it happened.
24 “Function” October 10, 2012
San Francisco, USA, 1 week after it happened.
25 “Meta Data” October 17, 2012
Tierra del Fuego, Chile, 4 years before it happened.
26 “African Aid” October 17, 2012
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 year after it happened.
27 “Il Portavoce” October 17, 2012
Oria, Italy, 3 months before it happened.
28 “Coming Clean” October 24, 2012
Northern California, USA, 2 weeks after it happened.
29 “After Party” October 24, 2012
Dublin, Ireland, 3 years before it happened.
30 “Lord of the Body” October 31, 2012
Mumbai, India, 7 months after it happened.
31 “Original Sync” October 31, 2012
London, UK, 9 years before it happened.
32 “Seeds” November 7, 2012
Dunbara, Republic of Congo, 1 year after it happened.
33 “On the Exterior” November 7, 2012
Northern California, USA, 3 years before it happened.
34 “Endure” November 14, 2012
Mumbai, India, 8 months after it happened.
35 “Query String” November 14, 2012
Northern California, USA, 3 years before it happened.
36 “How to Hack a Data Center” November 14, 2012
Southern Alberta, Canada, 8 months after it happened.
37 “Gross Figure” November 28, 2012
New York, USA, 8 years before it happened.
38 “On The Inside” November 28, 2012
Rome, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
39 “Long Term Benefits” December 5, 2012
Dunbara, Republic of Congo, 7 years before it happened.
40 “Two of Them” December 5, 2012
Rome, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
41 “Pronto” December 12, 2012
Northern California, USA, 3 months before it happened.
Oria, Italy, 3 months before it happened.
42 “Temporary” December 12, 2012
Yozgat, Turkey, 1 year after it happened.
43 “Make Things Right” December 19, 2012
Northern California, USA, 2 weeks before it happened.
44 “From/To Level 6” December 19, 2012
Southern Alaska, 1 year after it happened.
45 “Der Wahre Übermensch?” January 9, 2013
Hamburg, Germany, 3 years before it happened.
46 “Sacred Science” January 9, 2013
The Vatican, Italy, 2 years after it happened.
47 “On The Brink” January 16, 2013
Western Ireland, 30 minutes before it happened.
48 “Visions of What’s Come” January 16, 2013
Southern Alaska, 1 year after it happened.
San Francisco, USA, 5 minutes before it happened.
Western Ireland, 8 minutes before it happened.
Tokyo, Japan, 15 seconds after it happened.

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