Tag: Sci-Fi Short Film Review

J.Brown’s Dragon Fruit runs to nearly half an hour, longer than your average short, but it makes the minutes count. A film set in a dystopia (it becomes less and less meaningful to point out how well they increasingly resemble reality, but there we are) about a single mother with a necessary and ridiculously distant… Continue reading Dragon Fruit: Astute Sci-fi That Shows the Tiredness of It All

Shayda Frost’s ID EST, a 12-minute sci-fi, is weak on the writing but boasts the aesthetic of a high-budget slick, sci-fi action flick. Following the encounter of the main cast with their evil counterparts, the story dives into the background of its protagonist in flashbacks while in the present she is hanging on to her… Continue reading ID EST: (Sci-fi) Action for Its Own Sake

Ya-Ting Itchy Yang’s sci-fi Odd/Even finds its protagonist on the eve of a year-long hibernation with only hours left to extricate herself from a bad relationship. The 16-minute film fits within itself the story of an abused young woman in a future where the implemented solution to a global crisis of resources is to only… Continue reading Odd/Even: A Plan to Escape the Present

Richard Lounello’s 28-minute sci-fi LifeQuest interweaves two narrative threads, one existing under the ambit of the other: a corporate invention poised to become a trillion dollar product. The protagonist, a man at the cusp of an academic career and married life, lives through a blissful life until it is interrupted in a way no one… Continue reading LifeQuest: Personifying Science and Business

Ela Gavrila’s 16-minute Genre INC. is a sci-fi that explores constructed, corporate mediated personal realities. Co-written by Gavrila and Gabriel Molnar, its protagonist is a young woman who repeats evening after evening that she is a hopeless romantic. Her companion listens, but never speaks.  Alexa’s (Gavrila) daily loop is presented in two versions. In the… Continue reading Genre INC.: Programmed Experiences and Their Unsettling Recycle Bin

Written and directed by Russell Goldman, Closing Time feels personal. Like an ode of sorts, to youth, to lost time, and to longing. Set in a time loop that cruises in and between 6 years, the near 20-minute long film delves into the human psyche, all through the eyes of young Trent (Caleb Foote) whose… Continue reading Closing Time: A Sci-Fi That Explores Regrets & Nostalgia Through Time Loop

It’s interesting that first timers, James Leggett and Kolé Mahoney would choose a subject like this. Set in the pandemic, in New York city, comes the story of three friends, roommates, essentially, who are not only stuck together because of the quarantine, but by their shared stories. In the 29:49-minute-long narrative, no time is lost… Continue reading It Speaks!: A Sci-Fi For The Pandemic

Zach Kaplan’s Nativity jumps headlong into its futuristic premise—people in America in 2092 can now have custom-made babies ordered, on their preferred date to boot. The question of America for Americans is at the centre of the narrative, with unflattering questions that the film does not allow one to shirk and gloss over. The sterile… Continue reading Nativity: A Dystopian Future That Holds A Mirror To Present Day Sanctimony