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The director couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives indoors, congratulating himself on the economic virtues of having ingested ‘animal condensed’ – an unexplained substance that seems to merge human and animal – and its benefits to his comfortably alienated life. “It optimises, it abstracts… it made us safe, here at home, with our accelerated portfolios”, he explains. Upstairs, his daughter virtually reconfigures Peppa Pig. Outside, meanwhile, hiding in the forest, is an unnamed, camouflaged fugitive, who explains her escape from a society that seems to have happily abolished the distinction between organic and technological life. An artist who has become a guerrilla fighter, the woman is busy preparing totem-like countermeasures to disrupt those who have become ‘animal expanded’.

Tune into an alternate civilization not too distant from our own, where digital artist Rick Farin's creatures lead their technology-driven lives wearing London designer Xander Zhou.

In a world formed by the spectacle of perfect illusions, the king of mediation travels through the lens to fight an anti-image cult that threatens a new generation.

A german silent sci-fi movie by Harry Piel

Set 50 years after the first short film in this series (Among the Stars: Terra Firma), a strange signal in space kicks off the story, with the protagonist trying to verify it’s source, leading to an investigation that has massive ramifications for not only itself, but for the whole of humanity. Among Strange Worlds explores themes of mental health, neurodivergence and finding purpose. This film is currently in production, so please follow Ethan (Music and Sound) and Dean's (Art and Animation) social accounts to go on the journey of creating it with them. Ethan: @ethanmcinerneymusic Dean: @Deanmagpie This short film is part of Ethan McInerney's 'Among Strange Worlds' audio visual album, generously supported by Youth Music as part of the NextGen Fund.

Seven years after the Incident, three townspeople are brought in for interrogation by the City. The secret they give up is more terrible than their captors could ever imagine...

Animated sci-fi romance story about a couple in a world falling apart, with an engineer building a rocket to save people.

A dystopian society ruled by machines where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

A fairytale from the future. In a dystopian Berlin, the last boy on earth and his imaginary friend fight over the future of the planet.

A young female Japanese hacker returns to Tokyo for a short visit and is quickly caught up in a web of crime and violence by the city's most notorious hikikomori psychopath.

Deserted scenes of the idyllic English countryside are invaded by something dark and unknown. Glimpses of something evil seep through a network of telegraph poles. Mysterious lights appear in the night sky. An event with no witnesses that leaves no trace... or does it?

In a dilapidated apartment drowned in the oppressive hum of electricity, a man kills his evenings by watching, through a hole in the wall, an empty stage bathed in childish music. This strange routine brings him a fragile joy. But one evening, something appears: an egg-shaped object marked with a face. An enigmatic presence. An angel… God?

Thousands of years after the extinction of the human race on Earth, an astronaut named Gladia lands on the now uninhabited planet. Gladia comes from a distant planet where the last inhabitants of Earth found refuge, before forgetting their home planet forever. She finds an inhabitant, a robot that has inherited all of man's knowledge to evolve and develop consciousness. The two will first fight each other but then realize that they are more similar than they thought.

A man wrapped in his last rags makes his way through the withered landscape. Surrounded by death, ruin and endless emptiness, he has only memories of liveliness left. These are the decisive driving forces for his arduous trek through the fiery wasteland. When he set out on his journey, he no longer knows. Nor does it matter. With the urge for the last, personal happiness in his heart, he then lives through the omnipresent fear of the malevolent flora & fauna, which has grown into a poisonous omnivorous life form in the last corners of the planet. Finally encircled and paralyzed by the merciless force of nature, his body seems lost, but then he sees a vision of his destination on the horizon. Is this a glimmer of hope of redemption or just a blinding distraction?

Spoken by the collective digital voice of a group of queer artists and activists, this collaborative project speculates about the possibilities of a temporality yet to come.

After being captured in the forest by a strange and enigmatic man, a young man breaks free, only to be swept into a dreamlike voyage through his past, present, and future. Memories blur with possibility as his life unfolds before him in ways he never expected.

Overwhelmed by an ever-growing pile of homework, two students take matters into their own hands, building a deep-thinking artificial intelligence, 'S.I. - Superficial Intelligence' to do the work for them. But as S.I. learns at an alarming rate, it starts thinking for itself. What began as the perfect solution quickly spirals into chaos. Have they created a groundbreaking invention—or an unstoppable problem?

Brian's night out takes a seriously wrong turn when he and his mate Reg ingest some bizarre pills. The night devolves into hallucinogenic chaos, physical mutations, and a close encounter of the alien kind.

Always take time for good nutrition when building your killer robot. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.

Explorer meets her fate when she encounters an ancient mug.

Andrea Nastri is a successful entrepreneur who founded a company that deals with a very particular market: making people relive lived experiences through sophisticated projection technology. Andrea lost his father as a child, so this technology represents a way for him to be able to relive him. This process being very invasive is also much criticized by the press and newspapers. Pushed by the desire to make his father's hologram more real, Andrea will push himself beyond all limits, abusing the technology and immersing himself in a world where the line between real and projection is blurred. Only by accepting the truth will Andrea be able to rid himself of his fears.

Animated short film based on motifs from the opera PARSIFAL by Richard Wagner. The film deals with power and gender structures that use a religious context as a pretext. Wagner's work is critically examined and re-evaluated from a very personal perspective. This is done in an entertaining way that does not shy away from a popular and allusive form. The newly composed music by Nico Gaik takes up the most important leitmotifs of Wagner's opera and at the same time makes a tongue-in-cheek reference to the popular sound of big Holywood blockbusters.

A UFO flies through a German village and an old lady reacts.

A mythic story of gods and romance, set in the ancient past on a planet between Mars and Jupiter.

A mysterious girl visits an old man's garden at the edge of a forest and offers him a glowing flower.

Set 10,000 years after the myth of Chang-E’s ascension onto the Moon, ‘The Very Thought of You’ centers around the hallucinatory experience of a Moon refugee who was broken out of his cryo-vacuum stasis by reasons unknown. In his helpless and delirious state, the man began wondering if he was really hearing the voice message of an ex-lover who he had to abandon in a bid for personal survival. The boundaries between freedom and restriction, past and present, individualism and collectivism, will blur and may even dissolve, in this dusky corner of the Moon.

Scrapped 102-minute amateur horror feature from 1991 re-edited into a 10-minute short.

A tribute to the disappearing Arabian humpback whale population, tracing its near extinction as a consequence of the high-speed development of the Persian Gulf.

Today, thanks to home automation, you can control and connect your entire home. But be careful that nobody is connected too...

Brought back to life by computer from the Aldebaran's people, Adolf Hitler start an Earth invasion with spaceships in the shape of a swastika. The story is intertwined with the adventures of Matt and Rico, two idiots who have to recover the loot from their computerized raid in the imaginary city of Vistakovia tailed by Mordecai, a follower of Satan hired by the lord of darkness in person to retrieve the stolen goods

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 behind.

Leo is a lonely young man who works as a night cleaner, dragging his life in a monotonous routine between deserted streets and bags of waste. One night he discovers a flyer that leads him into a mysterious instructional game. An anonymous envelope, an enigmatic device and an address push him to take to the streets at dawn. Once he reaches his destination he finds a strange bare room where the voice of an AI welcomes him, ready to put him before a choice capable of turning his life upside down.

The search for salvation is bleak and hopeless in a world ravaged by aimless and never ending violence. A lone wanderer struggles to find purpose both within and without, whilst fighting for survival.

This story takes place during the events of Picard Season 2 Episode 1, the Tholians are reacting to a new Borg Incursion and Captain Keeley must do all she can to maintain galactic peace.

Meet Atlas: a two-tonne hunk of metal programmed solely to chop trees. The year is 2090: most labour-intensive jobs have been efficiently mechanized by robots, and in Atlas’ case, wood logging. However, being a robot tasked solely as a lumberjack is no easy feat. Being one of the first of its kind, there are a few bumps in the system; despite his seemingly large build and powerful tools, he still finds himself in unfortunate scenarios that lead to his death. Never fear though as luckily for Atlas, his programming is uploaded to The Cloud, snapping back to normal in an instant. Until there is a problem with the system...

Juna is a rebellious girl living in a post-apocalyptic world. She finds herself reborn in a different part of the universe after being killed by a ruling religious sect on Earth. As she comes to accept her new disposition in an unknown and frightening place, Juna makes several unexpected encounters with both herself and her surroundings.

Wombo the alien lands in distress on planet earth. He is chased by a dog, ends up in a vegetable basket and nearly gets cooked for dinner! But why is it all happening to him? The reason is simple: our alien friend happens to look like a potato!

A therapist attempts to navigate a young man's toxic relationship issues with his ex-girlfriend using state-of-the-art virtual reality technology. But is his memory reliable?

The protagonist returns to the shopping mall, but this time he is led to a mysterious character.

This story begins with an obedient child who grows up under the traditional education concept, she is taught by the adults to plant flowers while instilling their educational ideas and perceptions of the world. The child must obey what the parents said. As a result, the child grew up rebelliously, and adults regard this as wrong and correct the child by remoulding her towards the goal of "perfect", so the child is sent to the ‘human perfection project’ by adults, trying to remove the filth from the child.

David, a physics student, comes into possession of a strange object that allows a jump into another dimension, very similar to ours, but in which the relationships between people are governed by disturbing rules. It seems like a strange game without any particular consequences, until someone tries in every way to prevent all this from happening.

Myceaqua Vitae is a film considering the inseparability between science, aesthetics, and narration. It offers a conduit for myth, laying out a rhythmic and poetic space for the multiplication of voices, trance states, and speculation about shapes of being. Ntjam’s video installation, reminiscent of a spacecraft console—the kind familiar in science fiction—is used to visualize “alien” signals and tell the story of an unclassifiable bioluminescent organism.

In the indefinite future, artificial intelligence - in the form of mirrors and screens - fulfills the role of parents. The protagonist is a little girl to whom her mother-tablet tells the story of Colombre, a mythological immortal jellyfish. Aquatic, cellular, microscopic and underwater scenes comment on the adventure of the grown girl, determined to transfer her consciousness to the Colombre and thus guarantee the survival of the human race in a world now completely submerged by water.