The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, improving technology to help sustain their tenuous ecosystem outside of the subzero temperatures. This includes insulation injections to combat cold for up to 48 hours, strength enhancements, and even artificial intelligence boosters. It also led to the manufacture of a synthetic Humanoid race as slave labor. Super-strong, immune to the elements, and unable to reproduce, they do all the things we can’t in this new world wrought from a hubris that’s allowed the year to mark a second anniversary: five years since Ash-393 (Branden Coles) broke free from his “chains” to lead a devastating Humanoid rebellion that’s yet to be neutralized.
It’s a pretty terrific concept for a sci- actioner with philosophical elements delving into the idea of history and our inexplicable ability...
It’s a pretty terrific concept for a sci- actioner with philosophical elements delving into the idea of history and our inexplicable ability...
- 10/10/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Telescope Short Film. Collin Davis, Matt Litwiller‘s Telescope (2013) short film stars Harwood Gordon, Sébastien B. Lubin, and Anna Campbell. Telescope‘s plot synopsis: “The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant [...]
Continue reading: Telescope (2013) Short Film: An Archaeologist Searches For Earth...
Continue reading: Telescope (2013) Short Film: An Archaeologist Searches For Earth...
- 10/22/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"A day may come when people will look back through space and time to witness what we once were." It's time... We're excited to be the first to debut the full 10-minute short film Telescope, co-directed by Collin Davis & Matt Litwiller, that we first teased a few weeks ago. This thrilling time travel short also features the work of Wes Ball, director of The Maze Runner and Ruin, who was lead VFX artist. "Wes worked closely with Collin and me to achieve the deep space look we were going for with both the ship and the space around it. He entertained our crazy ideas and helped incorporate the practical elements we shot," said Litwiller, who will be submitting to multiple festivals for competition in the narrative short category. Enjoy! Telescope stars Bello S. Lubin and Harwood Gordon. Litwiller & Davis are both graduates of Northwestern University's School of Communication. "Peering into the abyss.
- 10/21/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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