A selection of sci-fi short films: ** Caleb by Amanda Mesaikos & Susanne Aichele 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 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taimane Gardner, a virtuoso ukelele player and a composer, is creating a series of works inspired by the orbs of the solar system. Here is a sampling of her performances on video:
A sampling of recent sci-fi short films from Dust: ** “Planet Unknown” by Shawn Wang Facing global resource depletion, mankind sends out Space Rovers to find potential inhabitable planet ** 2084 by Taz Goldstein In the year 2084, the fate […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Michael Barnett has a new : Teen rocket scientists star at Sundance’s SLC opening | The Salt Lake Tribune Space exploration offers humans the chance to survive as a species. That’s the unifying message offered by Michael Barnett’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A press release points me to The New York Sci Fi Film Festival being held this weekend: This Friday marks the inaugural launch of The New York Science Fiction Film Festival, a new cinematic event debuting January 20-22, 2017 with a highly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new movie Hidden Figures, which portrays the struggles and triumphs of three African-American female mathematicians working for NASA in the 1960s, opened in the US yesterday and is getting excellent reviews: Why ‘Hidden Figures’ is a Movie Everyone Should Watch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Three sci-fi short films each with a robot theme: [Previous film was removed at Youtube. So I’ve replaced it with this one.] [Updated this one with a new link at Youtube:] “Mysterious Planet – Azarkant”
Writer/Director Luc Besson made the 1997 sci-fi movie The Fifth Element and his new movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, appears to have a similar extravagantly stylized look to it. The movie is inspired by the French comic book series Valérian and Laureline. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The National Geographic Channel‘s Mars mini-series directed by Ron Howard debuts on TV on November 14th. However, the first episode is now available for online streaming for free: Novo Mundo – MARS Video – National Geographic Channel. We watched the episode […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of inspiring videos:
Here are some recent additions to the collection of sci-fi short films at DUST – “sci fi videos and visions of the future” (see also this earlier posting): ** Wire Cutters: “Wire Cutters” – Writer / Producer / Director: Jack Anderson www.jackanders.com/ […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest trailer for the movie Passengers, which will reach theaters during Christmas: Synopsis: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are two passengers onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This video has two versions of the trailer for the movie Arrival with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, which opens in theaters on November 11th:
Below is the trailer for the movie Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer & Janelle Monáe. It reaches theaters on January 13, 2017: HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Asteroid Day! Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we can do to protect our planet, families, communities, and future […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a crowd-funding campaign for a documentary about : Earthling’s Quest – Alien hunters and a message to the stars by Alexander, Per & Malla — Kickstarter This is not fiction – this is the human pursuit for extraterrestrial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve posted a couple of times (see here and here) about the CineSpace short film competition, which is sponsored by NASA and the Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS). What makes this competition unique is the requirement that the creators use NASA imagery to some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the short film Boldly Gone now available online for free: Boldly Gone is the tale of two estranged brothers who come together to launch their father’s ashes into space. It stars Sean Biggerstaff (The Harry Potter Series), Dimitri Leonidas […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted earlier about the “Moon Shot” documentary project by Orlando von Einsiedel & J.J. Abram, which profiles participants in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. The nine short films are now available on YouTube. (The videos are also available for free at Google Play.) You can watch all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A documentary series of short films about the Google Lunar XPRIZE will be released later this month: Academy Award®-nominated director Orlando von Einsiedel, Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, Bad Robot and Epic Digital have joined forces with Google and XPRIZE to create a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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