The Best Science-Fiction Short Films

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1. Lost Memories 2.0

The “Cloud” collapsed and destroyed all the digital data in the world a few years ago in an electromagnetic storm. Since that monumental moment, the world has been slowly recovering, AD is now AC “After Cloud”. The “Cloud” has slowly been reactivated and interfaces revived. Marc goes in search of Karen, his wife, lover, partner, and best friend before the fall of the “Cloud” and now his lost love.

2. There Will Come Soft Rains

Animated Film based on Ray Bradbury’s Sci-Fi novel “The Martian Chronicles”, on the short story called “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Won “Golden Dove” Award on Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films in 1984.
In the aftermath of nuclear war, a fully robotic household prepares for a new day.

3. The Landing

A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.

4. Prism

Two teens break into an office and steal an important piece of technology, causing them to fight for their lives.

5. Manta

Chris Carden, an employee of a planetary resource corporation, has been stationed by himself in a small facility on the surface of a foreign planet for eight months. When a new employee arrives to take the next shift, Chris does not want to leave. A strange, ethereal romance with the planet itself leads Chris to take drastic measures to ensure that he stays there for good.

6. Uncanny Valley

In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away. 3DAR’s latest short film explores the frightening potential of our next technological revolution.

7. R’ha

Reminds me of StarCraft just a little bit because there is 2 alien race and character design looks exactly like Protoss.

8. The iMom

The iMom is an award winning short film by Ariel Martin.
The iMom will change your life! Well, at least that’s what the ads claim. But when a mother leaves her kids under the supervision of the family’s iMom, an unexpected connection is formed.

9. True Skin

Overall the video was fascinating, but at the same time kind of scary. I like the fact how the chip will enable a person not to be sick, die, or be basic anymore, as well as enhancing people’s mind capabilities.

10. All That Is Human

All That Is Human” explores the nature of humanity and human sexuality in a desolate and isolated future where interaction is mediated entirely through cyberspace and the very nature of human instincts are lost.

11. Monsters

Jenn lives in an underground bunker with her family, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside…

12. Sight

Sight, a brilliant and disturbing short sci-fi film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, imagines a world in which Google Glass-inspired apps are everywhere. This is their graduation project from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

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