How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures? Collaboratively conceived by director Brian J. Johnson and Vancouver’s acclaimed Company 605, Future Futures is a collection of five short dance films that explore the digital destiny of humankind through a unique merging of camera and visual effects with a specific choreographic vision. Embracing the absurdity of centering dance inside a sci-fi narrative, the experimental series collapses time to portray human culture at an unprecedented moment: the emergence of a new, autonomous, and intelligent being—the digital reflection and culmination of ourselves. Through its otherworldly imagery, choreography, and driving electronic sound score, Future Futures evolves into a strange, highly visual exploration of what we are if we are no longer tied to our physical bodies, and how we will define humanity when faced with a fading IRL existence.
An experimental silent film made with a team of three. Humanity is being wiped out and the last people left are friends May and Pearl. The main themes of the film are friendship that gives strength and hope, as well as current concern for the future of humans and our nature. Could we start over or was this it?
With a deep yearning for the perfect partner, Simon, a socially withdrawn man, applies to a futuristic matchmaking agency with a highly advanced algorithm. Things get complicated when Simon meets Hannah, a woman with the exact same ideal features he described in the examination room, down to the specific detail of a birthmark. Shocked yet intrigued, he strikes up a romantic connection with her. Unable to extract more information about his result, Simon must soon choose between pursuing an organic, real-life relationship with Hannah or putting his faith back in the numbers and waiting for his scientifically calculated match.
It's the year 3000 and humanity has left Earth and moved out into the galaxy but some things never change and the weekly broadcast of the antiques roadshow is one of them.
Two messy nerds try to hack into "cool guy's" social media profile to destroy his relationship, but instead they accidentally hack into the whole REALIFE (social media) system.
A reflective short film that recounts life alone during the pandemic and how what was once our daily life now seems to belong to an alien planet. Left adrift for almost a year due to quarantines, many saw their daily lives radically changed. For those who had to live this time alone, life became an endless monologue. What used to be day-to-day became something distant and strange. At the same time, home activities were now the only escape. Bars, cinemas, trips, urban transport... all of this became a world isolated by a void thousands of kilometres away. All of this became our new normal, a distant outside world and a strange inside world, a new world, an alien world.
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat-and-mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret. The Interrogation explores a mind-bending and often-psychedelic world where an all-powerful media company sets all the rules and demands religious-like devotion from its employees. In just 6 minutes, this short animation takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of twists and turns. Based on the award-winning The Cloaked Realm Universe created by Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa L. Cohen, The Interrogation features hand-drawn animation, an original score by John Baxter, and sound design by Dara Crawford.
A lone astronaut aboard the ISS suddenly loses communication with Earth. He soon begins to experience a series of strange events that put him and the entire station at risk.
Seized by Time Agents, Sam discovers the action of time travellers from the future have erased his family tree. He no longer exists. With the help of his cousin Eliza, can they find a way to restore their timelines and save their family?
A Japanese tokusatsu kaiju proof-of-concept short film directed by Takeshi Yagi and written by Yagi, Todd Silverstein, and Jordan A. Y. Smith. It is the end result of a tokusatsu film production course taught by Yagi for the online subscription service NarÅ. Though only about 6 minutes of footage was cut together and shown at Tokyo Comic Con on November 24, 2022, Yagi and his crew intend to put proceeds from course subscriptions toward getting AKARI made as a feature film or television series. It stars the titular Akari, a woman turned giant with alien technology, fighting off a berserk cybernetic monster.
A detective is put to work on a strange case: a man who broke into the police station saying that 7 people would die there tonight and only he knew how to save them. How? That's what leaves the detective intrigued by what this mysterious intruder has to say. But little does he know that the more he investigates this story, the greater the risk he is taking.
A family driving along a quiet country road is about to have a close encounter of the third kind. The parents try to calm their daughter who's crying in the back seat, but maybe her cries are a warning of the danger ahead...