DUST — 2017

Jan 20175m

How much should we let technology control? Attack drones stop listening to commands and begin targeting all humans.

Jan 201715m

A pioneering mind transfer procedure offers a quadriplegic soldier the chance of a new life... but at a terrible cost.

Jan 20173m

Miles of separation cannot break their bond. Lovers face their unexpected separation.

Jan 20173m

An office drone (Napoleon Ryan) finds a mysterious piece of paper that allows him to pass through solid objects, so he takes advantage of this new power.

Jan 20179m

Facing global resource depletion, mankind sends out Space Rovers to find potentially inhabitable planets.

Jan 20178m

In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must battle a dangerous enemy to rescue the US President.

Jan 20176m

Upon entering an omniscient technological device known as “The Chamber,” a man is presented with multiple projections of himself - from his past memories, to his own digital avatars, and beyond..

Jan 201718m

A dog sees more in the household helper robot, and the robot begins to attain sentience as it observes the family with their pet dog.

Feb 20173m

In the year 2084, the fate of mankind will rest in the hands of a total moron.

Feb 20174m

Planet Earth is invaded by the evil organization known as "The Triangle Gang", who wants to establish terror and rule our planet. Driving to their first target of destruction, the Triangle Gang doesn't know that they will have to reckon with Metaman Gatsu, the last cosmo-fighter and defender of humanity.

Feb 20176m

Certain robots are treated as second class citizens, facing harassment from figures of authority, leading to a revolt. It serves as a grim reminder of the way history has a way of repeating itself.

Feb 201710m

A woman's date takes a strange turn when the man she's been seeing reveals his strange backstory.

Feb 20178m

2045 A.D. A new genetic disease is causing humans to reject their own organs. Cybernetic enhancements are the only means to survive. One desperate man (Osric Chau) is forced to steal cybernetic implants to save an innocent life.

Feb 201719m

A young woman has the power to change a futuristic society controlled by an evil corporation.

Feb 20178m

Marooned on a dead Earth, a lone space traveller must delve into the planet’s history in order to find his way home.

Feb 201712m

300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary's drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.

Mar 20177m

An advanced data courier called Sync delivers a dangerous package.

Mar 201714m

2 friends, 1 giant fish, and the photo that changed their world.

Mar 20178m

Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, "In the Pines" documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning.

Mar 201710m

A recently disabled 11-year-old boy constructs a fantasy world around his affliction to defeat his tormentors at school and heal his fractured family before they separate permanently.

Mar 20174m

Set in a landscape which combines London’s brutalist architecture with CG-generated skyscrapers, the new short film by Factory Fifteen for The Bug's Function / Void sees the daily, monotonous routine of its protagonist suddenly and inexplicably start to crumble.

Mar 20178m

When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.

Mar 201715m

To contend with the bullies at school, 9-year-old Caleb decides to 3D print himself. Back home there's confusion, discord and reshuffled schedules...But maybe this is just what his family needs? With humor at its heart, CALEB is a fundamentally human story about family dynamics and the inevitability of moral dilemmas in the face of advancing technology.

Mar 20174m

A war between 2 robots fight for the fate of the world while a bomb ticks away ready to explode.

Mar 201710m

A Woman arrives on a barren highway where a mysterious Man waits, as he always has. He has things to offer, and she has things to trade, but what to choose?

Apr 201718m

When two universes collide and create exact duplicates of both people and inanimate objects on a single version of Earth, a hopeless romantic finds himself able to win the heart of his dream girl's double.

Apr 20174m

A man's consciousness transferred from his own diseased body into something manmade and he must deal with the horror of his new reality.

Apr 20179m

Four teens travel into a desolate and decrepit urban wasteland brought forth by the very being they wish to find, dead or alive.

Apr 201713m

In a world sputtering under ecological ruin and self imposed eugenics one couple search for some hope in their lives.

Apr 201711m

It's a fight against religion and society for a metal man trying to save his family.

Apr 20179m

For a curious young boy, The War of the Worlds is just the beginning.

Apr 20174m

An Arctic inhabitant is fascinated by the sudden appearance of a mysterious box.

Apr 20176m

An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of Cornwall... but this time they find out they're not so isolated after all.

Apr 201715m

Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has arrived in the Universe through the 'Hibernation' program. But something happens between him and his instructor Claire, and decisions that seemed unbreakable begin to crack. The countdown has begun.

May 20178m

With the progression of culture and technology, what would the interaction between the first human and the last human be like?

May 20174m

Sometimes breaking everything still can't break the cycle you're stuck in.

May 201712m

Caroline can't stand that she is a virgin...and then the world ends. In post-apocalyptic LA, after a dust storm has wiped out the planet, she is convinced that Francis was sent as the man to pop her cherry. YOYO is a heartfelt, dark comedy about finding meaning in life, even when life ceases to exist.

May 201712m

Female astro-miner Shona has been mining under dangerous conditions on the moon for the past two years in order to pay for expensive medical treatments in hopes of save her bed-ridden daughter Darla, and now that her tour is completed, a younger astronaut Paige has come to replace her. Shona is reluctant to return to the world she once knew, but in meeting Paige realizes that returning to Earth isn’t where she’ll find peace - she will have to return home.

May 20178m

Trapped inside the Space Freighter/Refinery DÉDALO, SIENA tries to survive an infestation of Diabolic Creatures.

May 201712m

In a dystopian future where the world has devolved into a pre-industrial state, the Purists rule supreme. The Purists blame technology for all the world’s past ills, and have deemed it to be inherently sinful. A handful of Companions, human-like artificial intelligence, have managed to make it through the apocalypse. They survive the only way they can –by hiding in plain sight.

May 201715m

Haunted by the memory of his girlfriend, Ben becomes obsessed with reliving their best moments together through the company, AGAIN™.

May 20178m

A short film set in the near future, where augmented reality has become so ubiquitous that the line between the real and virtual worlds have become blurred. When a new, dangerous technology is created that can manipulate the perception of this brave new world, who will exploit it? Who will monetize it? Who will become twisted by it?

Jun 20179m

Madeline is enjoying a quiet evening at home while her boyfriend, Rich, films her with his new VHS camera when they are interrupted by a visit from a stranger bearing a message from Madeline's future self. After receiving the message, the tape stops and starts again, only things begin to play out differently.

Jun 201728m

Fifteen years later, Jacob Reiss, a disillusioned IPMA veteran, has a fateful encounter with a young cartel prostitute. A meeting that forces him to confront a dark chapter from his past in order to save them both from a bleak future in one final, violent shot at redemption.

Jun 20173m

A millennial has to deal with the unexpected consequences of swiping himself on a dating app.

Jun 20178m

A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.

Jun 201715m

An imaginary friend is forced to consider retirement when his creator starts to grow up.

Jun 201711m

After the murder of Leo's wife a single idea circles endlessly within his head: revenge.

Jun 201710m

Paul, a journalist with a penchant for the unexplainable, meets with a man claiming to be a time traveler. As his skepticism is put to rest, Paul is sucked into the traveler’s anecdotes and tales, completely unaware of the real reason he has been invited there, and how it will change his life forever.

Jun 20177m

A self-aware robot seeks out love and meaning with horrifying results.

Jun 201720m

In a post nuclear era where owning books is a felony and the intellectual community is persecuted, a group of scientists is trying in vain to find a way to save the world. A Professor's assistant will be called upon to make the most difficult decision of his life.

Jul 20176m

Unknown. Unexplainable. The phenomenon of silence. Atoms of Uncontrollable Silence depicts a moment in which two scientists of different studies bear witness to an interconnection of separate events that extend beyond their realm of understanding.

Jul 201719m

On the eve of a rebel uprising in a dystopian underground society, one miner finds the key to freedom and attempts to escape before the hostile government kills him first.

Jul 20172m

Based on the DARK HORSE comic, NUMBER 13, a young cybernetic amnesiac, wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland searching for a father he can’t remember.

Jul 20177m

Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% love match is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?

Jul 20175m

"Divisor" shows the unexpected consequence as a result of mind shifting. Cyberpunk and virtual reality have shaped the esthetics of this short film.

Jul 201714m

A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.

Jul 20177m

10 years after leaving a war his father started, Quinn and Amp live in the slums selling illegal custom-tech just to afford the batteries that keep Amp alive.

Jul 201710m

Harry, a troubled young boy with a vivid imagination wants to fight the forces of evil like his television hero, the Star Ship Captain. When he meets the athletic but slightly awkward Jordan, the two boys set a plan in motion to defeat the forces of evil and save the day. Set in Melbourne in the late 1970‘s, this is the story of a suburban Space Captain, his Lieutenant, the Rocket they built and the heroes they become.

Aug 201710m

When Thom broke up with his girlfriend Celia to follow his dreams and become an astronaut he didn't realize it would lead her to use her robotics skill against all of humanity. Now he must try to heal her broken heart and save the world.

Aug 20178m

The story of an AI unit who is anything but artificial.

Aug 20177m

A Japanese man mysteriously wakes up inside of his phone and is forced to confront the destruction his addiction to technology has wreaked on his life. In the face of these unusual obstacles, he attempts to escape the phone and return to his normal life—all before draining his battery down to zero...

Aug 201712m

A short film about falling in love... with a terrorist.

Aug 201710m

A lone astronaut on an endurance mission is forced to cope with an intrusive force which threatens to derail the operation.

Aug 20177m

In a world where time travel spreads as a virus, a fugitive uses 1-5 second time jumps to escape a police raid.

Aug 20178m

Michael (Tom Hollander) is a broken man with a gun, surrounded by armed police. A robot with a medical degree is dispatched –but can it save him?

Sept 201717m

A family of scavengers. A corrupt spaceport. A callous matriarch. A home in the shadow of a space elevator. After a brutal attack on his father, Simon Carter must sacrifice everything to save his family.

Sept 20172m

With the help of her drones, a young woman faces the horrors outside in a search for a paradise she may never find.

Sept 20176m

A sci-fi thriller about a woman who can never get over the child she lost.

Sept 20174m

What would you sacrifice to save the world? In Rob McLellan's short "Always the Sun" one woman must take on this devastating responsibility.

Sept 20177m

Some prefer beer... Some prefer blood.

Sept 201710m

A man (Dante Basco) returns to the scene of a terrible crime where he lost everything, determined to face his demons and rewrite a little bit of history.

Sept 20173m

This 3D experimental short is about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state.

Sept 20177m

The story of two men who find themselves in the center of Earth’s first encounter with extraterrestrial life.

Sept 20173m

An homage to Blade Runner.

Oct 20174m

Time travelers are hidden among us and they aren't friendly. After the state of New York gives the police access to "The Grid," a new technology that allows people to purchase anything with a quick scan of their fingerprint, crime drops almost instantly. However, they also discover that certain people are popping up in two places at once.

Oct 20174m

A group of friends build a jet-powered craft to teleport across the universe. It’s only when they succeed that their problems begin.

Oct 20175m

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers.

Oct 20174m

Humanity makes a deal with a new client.

Oct 201712m

Deep underground, a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to cope with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve...

Oct 20172m

As seen in many sci-fi films tapes, we've been invaded again, but this time is our own fault: We've created New Media.

Oct 201718m

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

Nov 201716m

Set in a dystopian future where the world is dying from a crippling disease, a mysterious figure visits an illegal drug den in the hope of sourcing a rumored cure, but unwittingly gets caught up in a robbery that could threaten his chances of making it back out alive...

Nov 20177m

Two Worlds is a story about two opposites coming together out of necessity and finding hope at the end of the world.

Nov 201717m

A young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller's lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico.

Nov 20177m

Detroit, 2029 is a thoughtlog from former military operator Tony Demayo, whose combat footage capturing Detroit's invasion became the 21st century’s Zapruder film.

Nov 201719m

Love transcends all boundaries. Even in space.

Nov 201719m

He fished for life but The Life caught him.

Nov 20171m

An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity.

Nov 20176m

Biopunk is set in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human.

Nov 201714m

As her deceased daughter's birthday approaches, Dr. Mara Stevens begins to ask herself, what if Wendy hadn't died?

Dec 20176m

Infinitude is a meditation on the cosmic evolution of matter and energy over time. Filmmaking techniques such as time-lapse, high-speed, and stop-motion photography were used to photograph handmade props, fluid dynamics, and gravitational light-painting. Infinitude is a handmade representation of the exponential growth of complexity in the cosmos.

Dec 201716m

Marshall discovers a deep space distress call from his estranged brother and must choose to save himself or venture into the Recoil effect for a chance at redemption.

Dec 201712m

After spending his entire life on display, Jim discovers that they're about to change the exhibit.

Dec 201715m

Two Indian astronauts must cope with the death of their captain on a one-way voyage to the nearest Earth-like sanctuary.

Dec 201714m

An unhappy man sets out to shut down an outdated storage facility, but his interaction with the unusual caretaker will make it an unforgettable experience.

Dec 201712m

When an office robot attempts to express its affection for a co-worker, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point.

Dec 201715m

In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon.

Dec 201715m

The past is a future worth saving. This sci-fi short follows Dr. Theodore Maine in his quest to relive a memory with his mother that he deeply regrets. Ted's personal endeavor is taking away from his work with Alzheimer's patients at Janus Labs and his lab partner, Shea Rose, is getting fed up with his tardiness and lack of focus. That is, until, a mysterious visitor named Obee changes Ted's life for good.

Dec 20178m

When a mysterious creature crash lands in the mountains, a local girl finds a reclusive shepherd and his flock of sheep to be more than meets the eye.

Dec 201710m

The world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are confronted with his emotional and controversial story.

Dec 201714m

In a dystopian world a young woman gets a second chance to avenge her and her family’s death and fight against the governments military death squads.

Dec 201713m

A lonely woman falls for an avatar in an augmented reality program and it completely upends her life.

Dec 201713m

Ivan has tested positive for perfection, but sadly in this world it's illegal and the law states he must attend a private clinic to be made imperfect.

Dec 20173m

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear or the effect of epiphany.