Can’t get out to the latest SF blockbuster? Here’s a little Bureau42 Festival of recent short genre films available on Youtube:
“Flying Man” takes a dark look at the superhero:
“R’ha,” “The Final Moments of Karl Brant” (with Paul Reubens), “Caldera,” “Runaway,” and “The Strangers,” below:
An F/X-heavy SF war story in six minutes:
Paul Reubens stars in this futuristic tale; the makers hope to create a full-length version:
This award-winner, posted earlier this summer,uses fantastic elements to address the struggle with mental illness:
Here’s a very odd five minutes with excellent F/X:
And an intriguing remake of a horror movie:
I like alien in R’ha. Wonder what the budget is.
Good enough to have decent effects, but not good enough to escape a cliche ending, apparently ;-)
Interesting. The reverse used to be generally true of independent films: low production, great concepts/endings/avoidance of cliche. It’s still true to some degree, but I do wonder if the greater ease with which F/X can be achieved has hampered the drive to innovate in other ways.
[Insert Star Wars prequel reference here– not that Star Wars was ever indy]
And Indy DEFINITELY wasn’t indy!
R’ha looks like GlaDOS vs a biological version of a Jaffa + armor + extra arms. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Those are all good things.
Runaway was also good (except for a couple distracting bluescreen moments).
I’d be interesting in seeing more of either of those, for sure.
I didn’t have time to watch most of the others.