short stories aren't short per se. the possibilities of other things that could happen in every short story will keep you thinking for a long. sometimes years and on. a short story is an idea, while a film is a tale
Daniel Bradler The he storyline is fine but the main character overact,and it's hard to be inside of it when you have something that constently remind you that they are playing.
Everybody look to clean like they just stepped out of the shower this is a post-apocalyptic world there's no running water nothing everybody survive by drinking your own piss everybody should be looking dirty unkept
A rare Gem of a film. This is a "TRUE SHORT" film it has a beginning, a middle, and most important and ending. Very well done and very well acted by Liz Christensen. Honestly if this was a feature length movie it word be better than any of the last five Star Wars movies. This film was so well done that time just flew by.
This is so good, I was rooting for mum and boy from the start, the scene where the lady helped other lady on the ground was very tense, I guess if people don't help other people out it will be a very dark and lonely existence for everyone if the world ever gets this bad, great short film it got the point across in very a short time span, without drawing it out too much well done to folks who made this
Wow! This film was incredible in every sense of the word. What a great story. Great actors, wonderfully crafted music and visually you guys took us on a journey into a dreary and very real grim future that was palpable.
Incredible work Willem and to all involved. Very moving, brought me to tears. Especially having a boy of my own. Great characters, story, fx, production design, makeup, color, the works. Very impressed. Can't wait to see more from you in the future
ScottDW is right, you guys did a magnificent job. Hopefully this brings enough attention to your skills to warrant more work from you and your very talented crew.
I hate movies with a sad ending. When it looked like the boy would not make it I was ready to write this one off. Glad you gave it a good ending. Nice portrayal of compassion - a win. Good movies like this with good quality, acting, writing, plot - show how corrupt Hollywood is.
What a great story!!! Monsters are inside not out... Some monsters are packaged in good looking shells and some good people have the most fk'd up outsides. Moral: Never judge a person on the Surface! :-)
Thank you, Willem for a wonderful story. The actions and emotions carried it. No matter where or when we are or what we may become there is nothing more powerful than the love one has for another to carry them beyond the boundries created of fear. Teared up at the end. Looking forward to more of your work.
Haha a short film star maybe lol. And thank you. That was the goal. I didn't want to let the film down. A film is only as good as it's villain or you won't care for the "hero".
Best 20 minute short I've seen. It told a great story with an important theme without banging it over my head. Thanks for respecting and entertaining your audience.
Its been 3 years since I found this and every few months I HAVE to watch it again. I'd love to see a movie made out of this or even a mini-series on this. I keep hoping but so far no luck. And it makes my eyes tear up every single time. And I love it and I'm here for it 100000% !
How timely. "Weren't there any monsters...?" No, just human beings dealing with the cards they were dealt. Like you, like me, like any of us. Like not a difficult allegory to get......
FINALLY!! A good short film that doesn't leave you feeling like you just watched the hook for a great TV series or a movie. A complete story. I love the hook, mind you, but I stopped watching these because most don't tell a complete story, just the intro to one.
Great work I really enjoyed it. Also I like how the tainted resembled the Borg from Star Trek but acted nothing like them. Its great how Liz went from calling the tainted monsters to people after nearly becoming a monster herself. This short film had more to say than many 2 hour movies do these days. Great work in all aspects.
A very good, touching short film. If only everyone in these testing times due to the pandemic showed a bit more of humanity’s better qualities. Well done CG. ;))
Some of the "better Qualities" have shined thru during this pandemic. The pandemic arrived to teach a few things. To be a catalyst for change. Such a thing shows up every 100 hundred years or so. A pandemic every 100 years for the last 400 years at least. And again the Hitler fanatics rise up. Germany learned its lesson. Perhaps the United States needs to learn the same lessons?
I really enjoyed watching this short! I know Liz Christensen, she is such a great actress! I had real tears in my eyes at the part where she thinks she's too late to save her son! I loved this!!! Great job to all involved!!
David Edbrooke I mean based off of the wasteland we can assume that its like 20 years after or less and that everything haa been picked over and you cant keep it that nice
This little short film had me going at the corner of my seat specially when she helpes the bots and just has so much time to get back to her kid what a beautiful film indeed
They weren't "bots." They were humans with the exact same problem, the hneed for the green-glowing module to stay alive. The ones on the surface were the same as the ones below that surface. Ignorance and fear below AND above kept them apart. The same disconnect is the sine qua non of Humanity because we exist in a "fallen" state, sinful and imperfect but for Jesus Our Savior,
Two lethal beings desperate to save their own family's lives living in misery, despair and pain due to their one's coming soon death, and the emotion of mother's heart saves other being's life while she knew her child was going to die, somehow helping out them turns into the help of hers and both families survives.. It is one of the most mesmerizing story i've ever seen.
Pay it forward. Good movie but a better message! We should be focusing more on community and family than material things and "safety" issued by the government. This path we are on will end in despair for everyone involved.. band together, and don't let evil people rule us anymore!! Please be kind to everyone you can be, even those who may not deserve it or return the favour .. it makes a difference, I promise you that. Don't let the news tell you who is good or bad, think for yourself and stop following the religion of news, government, and "professionals" in their white lab coats! You may not think you are or see it, but you have faith. Most ppl see tv as the word/bible, the "professionals" as prophets and the leaders of democrat or republican parties as a messiah to follow. These people only stay in those positions if they follow the mainstream narrative! If you are a doc who promotes natural ways over pills and pharmaceutical drugs aka biblical pharmakia, you will be shut down and stripped of your title... tyranny, censorship, fascism(the real kind). Wake up and see we are all meant to be free, have god given rights we are born with.. fight back in the most peaceful but effective way you know how. Plz, for the sake of future generations! I won't have kids because I see the way the world is heading and not enough ppl step up to stop it.. Now or never. G. Orwell 1984
@@johnstevens9803 Yes, according to the movie your response is totally correct but I will do what I can but I don't expect world to change. That's I believe it's better to prove a point instead of fighting to make other convinced. It's better to use your capability to have an impact on the world. BUT main purpose isn't this human things. It's beyond that. Since we're born in human world so we gotta follow some things to survive but you're always free to make your own world reality once you step out of this human realm.
When the deep motivations of a story match reality, it is beautiful. A mother, a family, each in their created role, is beautiful. No modern confusion can change the blueprint of your soul.
One of the most decent short films I have watched in a long time - the parental instinct is clear... good cgi-fx. costumes. and direction. Congratulations to all involved in the project.
Excellent short! I love how the faded banners/signs in the background show hints at this "Biom Industries". It almost seems like a futuristic tech where people run their bodies on power cells or something, with machine/cybernetic augmentations and that all went wrong, causing the end of the world scenario. Very curious. I really enjoyed it.
85 years old. I know what will happen. My family is all medical people with high thinking we see things lots of people do not see. We see the future. Good luck Musk. Good luck everyone.
This was great! Well put together, mostly well paced, engaging... And with a good, positive, socially responsible message too! Loved it. Thanks for sharing your talent!
A very well paced, and beautiful short. Very moving, and believable. Excellent acting all the way around. A story well told through imagery, and emotion. Very few words needed, and expertly executed in this regard. You said in response to tobiasthebluemans post that you acknowledge that the film isn't perfect, but I think it is perfect. Well done, and thank you to all involved.
The next one should be of those two going to the surface together. That child growing up with the other "mutant" kid. Or something like that. Thumbs up to you for this being such a fantastic video👍🤗😎
A really unique look at the future, very different than my post-apocalyptic short film. Great sci-fi concepts, I thought the battery powered human modifications was a intriguing plot element. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time she was running back to her son.
Was anyone else yelling 'Run..Run..RUN!'? Wish this was a full length feature movie, made by the same people, and with the same actors/actresses. This had the content that deserved and deserves it. Well done, and only wish it had a bit of before and after story.
I’d love to see a sequel to this where the woman and her son go to the surface, meet the family that she helped (and they in return) and take steps towards mutual understanding and reconciliation.
This movie made me reflect on my days of being a Leukemia (Cancer) patient, when I was a child, and how much my parents, family and friends went through, in order to keep me alive. I am so grateful that I have my mom, and although we may argue and not always agree, not a day goes by when I don't thank God for my Mom and My Step-Mom. They are both so beautiful, and they are Angels.
Великолепный фильм. Режиссерская работа, игра актеров, выше всяких похвал. Сценарий прост и филм короткий, но даже за это короткое время сжал сердце и душу, смог передать то, чего нам так нехватает - доброты и человечности. Спасибо за фильм.
You know a short film ia good when you wish there was more! Great work to all involved it was weird I felt like I had seen this before but nope, great ending as well!
I just love this film, I've come back to watch this a few times, great work. That said, wow four commercials in a twenty-minute film, that could be some kind of record.
What I don't get is. if they are not that bad. how come the entire town looks like a shit dump. Massive destruction and something had to be the reason why mankind had to flee underground. I don't get how it could get so bad. if the inflicted are able to think. Great short tho. but the plot kinda missed what made the mess, to begin with.
Great SciFi Stlory! You didn't dlo that MOST Annoying Ending of: ambiguity and/or that so very VERY Awful ending where it is basically: "figure it-out-for-yourselves" ending. GREAT SHORT!! One of my favorites - and I'm going through them all. I see talent. Hope you are continuing on!
It may have been a Kickstarter film when you got too many extras that means you got to pay them for their time being on the set that's what crowdfunding comes in
I was pleasently surprised that the special effects were very well done! When it comes down to it, it really doesn't matter how good of actors you've hired, or how good of a story you've written, or how good of a director you are, if the movie's environment (especially in sci-fi movies) looks too fake or tacky, it doesn't allow the viewer to completely, or even remotely, immerse themselves into the characters and storyline. I also liked the overall idea about humans living underground while the cyborg-like-humanoids live above ground in what looked like a post apocalyptic, destroyed and scorched Earth. And the amount of acting balanced evenly with the action/event scenes. I also enjoyed that there weren't an over dramatic amount of camera angle changes and that you as the viewer got to take in the reality these people live in, as well as be able to really appreciate the effort the people in charge of the set creations and CGI put in to make the movie pretty damn close to seamless. The main character really sold it for me, though! I actually started to tear up towards the end when she believes she is too late and has lost her son, because i felt the raw emotion in her sobbing which forced me to relate by imagining it was someone very near and dear to my heart. She is a very good actor, for it isn't easy to do a crying seen and do it well enough that the viewer can't help but empathize with them and start to get teary eyed as a pure reaction. There were multiple scenes where you could see the tears well up in her eyes, and it really sold the pain and anguish she was going through with a doing everything to try and fix her broken child. And the general theme of not instantly hating what you don't understand is something that really hits home for me, because it's something i see all the time and view as a major problem in our world. Overall, i thoroughly enjoyed it, and to be honest, i really didn't think i would. On a scale from 1-10, i give it an 8.9 out of 10! Good job, Willem! Way to kill that shit!
tobiastheblueman wow. Thank you so much for such an in depth comment and overview. I acknowledge that the film isn't perfect but I love seeing how people see it and feel the themes that we wove into this film. In the end, we all as humans have something broken in our lives that we are looking to fix. Most of the time it just looks different to those who are different than us. Thank you so much for giving the film your time and your energy. It's audience members like you that keep us film makers going.
tobiastheblueman I agree! Having a believable setting/special effects is so important and for a low budget film, they were nearly flawless! I also loved the limited exposition. At first, I was bothered by the general lack of details and overall context, but in retrospect, keeping it simple was perfect for the length of the film. It was definitely better to have a few unanswered questions than to be bogged down with useless back story. My only critique would be that the length of time showing how long we left on the son's "battery" was too brief and therefore caused the mother's haste to obtain a new one to be slightly unclear. Overall, it was an amazing movie! Great job Willem Kampenhout! 9.5 out of 10
This is even more impactful now. We are coming out of a pandemic and now are on the verge of world war. We need to see each other as people with the same needs and problems regardless of language or nationality. The only enemies are propaganda and greed, not the average people who are caught in the middle.
She started the count down at 3h19m when she left her boy ... and reached the surface at 1h45m ? That leaves her less than 9 minutes to get the thing, because if she isn't back underground at 1h34min, her son will be dead anyway ...
Marvelous film, really great work, from everyone involved. How ironic to discover that at least some of the "monsters" on the other side are not monsters at all, but just scared people---people who can learn to help each other. Maybe this first meeting between two families will spark something better for the future of their world. I find it absurd and aggravating the these short films are so much better, and so much more riveting, than any of the big budget crap being produced by the so called "Entertainment Industry".
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Man they really cleaned up Detroit for this film
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Power of prayer God 🙏 is always good
@The Arcflash thank god youre out on the interwebs correcting grammatical errors. You da nam
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Amazing story line. Why the hell do these short films seem much better than most of the movies that consume millions of dollars?
Aravindan S because Hollywood is throwing out crap for movies just to get a buck. Quality is not the goal anymore
TIME
AND
MONEY
are the cause!!
Short movies are better than the movies that are longer, cause they have u wanting more n more , so they make longer ones later.great shorties.♥️😊
short stories aren't short per se. the possibilities of other things that could happen in every short story will keep you thinking for a long. sometimes years and on. a short story is an idea, while a film is a tale
Small budgets and short run times mean characters and plot need to be all the better to make up for it.
The moment when some independent movies are way better,as some Hollywood productions.
Good work!
Absolutely and also they have a meaning, it recovers the faith in American intellectuality , Hollywood is just garbage nowadays...
Daniel Bradler The he storyline is fine but the main character overact,and it's hard to be inside of it when you have something that constently remind you that they are playing.
Hollywood is the "tainted man",monsters all!
Agree!!!!!
Everybody look to clean like they just stepped out of the shower this is a post-apocalyptic world there's no running water nothing everybody survive by drinking your own piss everybody should be looking dirty unkept
Props to everyone who worked on this: just brilliant - I wanted her to run faster: both families survived- I loved it
A rare Gem of a film. This is a "TRUE SHORT" film it has a beginning, a middle, and most important and ending. Very well done and very well acted by Liz Christensen. Honestly if this was a feature length movie it word be better than any of the last five Star Wars movies. This film was so well done that time just flew by.
Would love to see more shorts or a full movie with a back story on what happened. This has so much potential to be a great series or movie
Sometimes, the real monsters are those who tell you who the monsters are 😣
Or those who tell you that.
Or dont say
Kuya Nerd Very human
Who is the monster here!?
@@mouli0235 who ever says is the monster
This is so good, I was rooting for mum and boy from the start, the scene where the lady helped other lady on the ground was very tense, I guess if people don't help other people out it will be a very dark and lonely existence for everyone if the world ever gets this bad, great short film it got the point across in very a short time span, without drawing it out too much well done to folks who made this
Now, if GOVERNMENTS could only learn from this example!
@@bruceforster3709 they Won’t
A mother will only understand her love to her kids...All the sacrifices mothers do ❤️
Moral of the story: Don't judge someone by their SURFACE.
oh damn, I mean that was kinda good.
Can't help it. This is what Detroit city looks like. Soon San Francisco.
1TalldrinkH2O Lol
YOU NAILED IT 👍
Well, he did attack her. She was taking a scenic stroll through the apocalypse.
Wow! This film was incredible in every sense of the word. What a great story. Great actors, wonderfully crafted music and visually you guys took us on a journey into a dreary and very real grim future that was palpable.
Action, suspense, sadness, and mixed together with good reason acting, great locations and CGI, and food costumes all with a happy ending. 10/10!!!
Incredible work Willem and to all involved. Very moving, brought me to tears. Especially having a boy of my own. Great characters, story, fx, production design, makeup, color, the works. Very impressed. Can't wait to see more from you in the future
ScottDW this means the world to me. Thank you so much!!!
ScottDW is right, you guys did a magnificent job. Hopefully this brings enough attention to your skills to warrant more work from you and your very talented crew.
Willem Kampenhout I also agree, not to intrude. This truly was amazing though 💜💜💜
ScottDW That is high praise coming from you my friend!
It made me have to go poop
I hate movies with a sad ending. When it looked like the boy would not make it I was ready to write this one off. Glad you gave it a good ending.
Nice portrayal of compassion - a win.
Good movies like this with good quality, acting, writing, plot - show how corrupt Hollywood is.
Didn't get credited for the matte paintings, so im crediting myself here :D All the ruin paintings were by me :)
Very cool
Longest Duracell advertisement ever.
Von Neely lmfao
Von Neely xd
Love it ! Would like to see part 2 and how everything started
Hihihihaha
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What a great story!!! Monsters are inside not out... Some monsters are packaged in good looking shells and some good people have the most fk'd up outsides. Moral: Never judge a person on the Surface! :-)
I'm the tainted man and I love when people catch the deeper meaning ;)
It's NOT about the "surface shells", it's about the biased stories told to people.
Well said bro 🙏🙏🙏
Tony G
Most monsters don’t look like monsters
If the monsters aren't outside but, inside then the monsters are outside if within everyone. Doesn't make sense. Logic much?
Thank you, Willem for a wonderful story. The actions and emotions carried it. No matter where or when we are or what we may become there is nothing more powerful than the love one has for
another to carry them beyond the boundries created of fear. Teared up at the end.
Looking forward to more of your work.
Those 'things' have not lost their humanity after all. Sometimes we tend to think of other humans as lesser just because they look and act different.
Try being gay in this society full of ravenous Christians seeking a scapegoat.
Sometimes?
Why do these "award winning" films never tell you which award they won?
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Good question!
Because it could be just a collage award.
Kelaa award😀😀😀😀
There are thousands of award...
1. national film award
2. sensitive film award
3. Creativity award and many more...
Perseverance and empathy, the two things that make humans as a race so adaptable and resistant.
And empathy also is what destroyed every human empire between 250 and 300 years old from the beginning of recorded history.
@@kandysman86 No that was Greed and stupidity. Empathy allows us to have perspective.
@@pixelcount350 no, some empathy is ok. Pathological empathy is what I mean. It is our Achilles heel.
@@kandysman86 I can't say i agree.
@@pixelcount350 it's because I don't think you understand what I'm saying. But do your own research
"Were there any monsters?" If she had killed the other woman for her power cell, she would have become the monster. Nice flick. Thnks.
Love when people get it! I choke up every time I hear that line and I am the Tainted man lol.
Cool, I'm talking to a movie star! Your character conveyed so much without speaking.
Haha a short film star maybe lol. And thank you. That was the goal. I didn't want to let the film down. A film is only as good as it's villain or you won't care for the "hero".
You did an incredible job David
@Tony Montresor I regret watching the movie first. And I always felt that the alter ending was better.
Best 20 minute short I've seen. It told a great story with an important theme without banging it over my head. Thanks for respecting and entertaining your audience.
wow, I just realize it was 20 minutes. went so fast. awesome movie.
Even I get sucked in and it goes so fast. And I was the Tainted Man! Haha
So much movie packed into 20 minutes or so. This was so well done, really well done. Thank you
Its been 3 years since I found this and every few months I HAVE to watch it again. I'd love to see a movie made out of this or even a mini-series on this. I keep hoping but so far no luck. And it makes my eyes tear up every single time. And I love it and I'm here for it 100000% !
How timely. "Weren't there any monsters...?"
No, just human beings dealing with the cards they were dealt. Like you, like me, like any of us. Like not a difficult allegory to get......
FINALLY!! A good short film that doesn't leave you feeling like you just watched the hook for a great TV series or a movie. A complete story. I love the hook, mind you, but I stopped watching these because most don't tell a complete story, just the intro to one.
BRAVO !!!
Great work I really enjoyed it. Also I like how the tainted resembled the Borg from Star Trek but acted nothing like them. Its great how Liz went from calling the tainted monsters to people after nearly becoming a monster herself. This short film had more to say than many 2 hour movies do these days. Great work in all aspects.
I am the Tainted Man and I approve this comment! Love it when people get the more subtle points of the film.
We are the Borg, You will be assimilated, Resistance is futile. ⬜< Borg cube.
2 hour films these days try to achieve something different than these short films
A very good, touching short film. If only everyone in these testing times due to the pandemic showed a bit more of humanity’s better qualities. Well done CG. ;))
Yeah , the borg looking people on the surface showed compassion to the politically correct people who live in the tunnels.
What pandemic?
Some of the "better Qualities" have shined thru during this pandemic. The pandemic arrived to teach a few things. To be a catalyst for change. Such a thing shows up every 100 hundred years or so. A pandemic every 100 years for the last 400 years at least. And again the Hitler fanatics rise up. Germany learned its lesson. Perhaps the United States needs to learn the same lessons?
@@gothboschincarnate3931 You talking about the Great Reset?
@@illumiNOTme326 the great reset...do tell.
“I am legend” meets the Borg, plus a cheese knife on a stick, equals an Energiser commercial. Who would have thought?
yeah i saw the cheese knife too but still great
Mark Gearing Lol
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I really enjoyed watching this short! I know Liz Christensen, she is such a great actress! I had real tears in my eyes at the part where she thinks she's too late to save her son! I loved this!!! Great job to all involved!!
One of the few times I'll eagerly say, "There are more stories to be told than just this one."
Kurt Feltenberger : YES.
She had some awesome hair for a person living after the apocalypse.
Why do you think nice hair in only a modern thing?
David Edbrooke I mean based off of the wasteland we can assume that its like 20 years after or less and that everything haa been picked over and you cant keep it that nice
Wanderer 2617 Hair is self
Cleaning once past the initial phase of no washing.
Johnny Mac Lol
I thought the same thing! Lots of water and conditioning lotions after the apocalypse!
This little short film had me going at the corner of my seat specially when she helpes the bots and just has so much time to get back to her kid what a beautiful film indeed
They weren't "bots." They were humans with the exact same problem, the hneed for the green-glowing module to stay alive. The ones on the surface were the same as the ones below that surface. Ignorance and fear below AND above kept them apart. The same disconnect is the sine qua non of Humanity because we exist in a "fallen" state, sinful and imperfect but for Jesus Our Savior,
Two lethal beings desperate to save their own family's lives living in misery, despair and pain due to their one's coming soon death, and the emotion of mother's heart saves other being's life while she knew her child was going to die, somehow helping out them turns into the help of hers and both families survives.. It is one of the most mesmerizing story i've ever seen.
Thank you Captain Obvious for recapping the entire story we all just saw. Idiot.
Longest Duracell advertisement ever.
Pay it forward.
Good movie but a better message! We should be focusing more on community and family than material things and "safety" issued by the government.
This path we are on will end in despair for everyone involved..
band together, and don't let evil people rule us anymore!!
Please be kind to everyone you can be, even those who may not deserve it or return the favour ..
it makes a difference, I promise you that.
Don't let the news tell you who is good or bad, think for yourself and stop following the religion of news, government, and "professionals" in their white lab coats!
You may not think you are or see it, but you have faith. Most ppl see tv as the word/bible, the "professionals" as prophets and the leaders of democrat or republican parties as a messiah to follow.
These people only stay in those positions if they follow the mainstream narrative! If you are a doc who promotes natural ways over pills and pharmaceutical drugs aka biblical pharmakia, you will be shut down and stripped of your title...
tyranny, censorship, fascism(the real kind).
Wake up and see we are all meant to be free, have god given rights we are born with..
fight back in the most peaceful but effective way you know how.
Plz, for the sake of future generations! I won't have kids because I see the way the world is heading and not enough ppl step up to stop it..
Now or never.
G. Orwell 1984
@@willarcher2356 Yeah, I wanted to express it in words. Well if you knew it then why did you even bother to comment here!
@@johnstevens9803 Yes, according to the movie your response is totally correct but I will do what I can but I don't expect world to change. That's I believe it's better to prove a point instead of fighting to make other convinced. It's better to use your capability to have an impact on the world. BUT main purpose isn't this human things. It's beyond that. Since we're born in human world so we gotta follow some things to survive but you're always free to make your own world reality once you step out of this human realm.
When the deep motivations of a story match reality, it is beautiful. A mother, a family, each in their created role, is beautiful. No modern confusion can change the blueprint of your soul.
Thank you. I was the Tainted Man and love when people see the deeper truths of this little film.
One of the most decent short films I have watched in a long time - the parental instinct is clear... good cgi-fx. costumes. and direction. Congratulations to all involved in the project.
Great happy ending! Only problem now is how to explain to everyone where he got a yellow power core.
and avoid getting killed for it
Very sensitive issues. Humanity counts. Thanks for making a good movie.
One of the better Apocalyptic Short Films I’ve seen. Great story line and I enjoyed the ‘happy ending.’
Mothers can be Olympians' when they have to be.
That's an absolutely correct statement.
What about the father?
Chris Delacruz Nobody cares about fathers. That is why they are trying to get Father's Day abolished.
Albert Joseph I care about fathers
Nice mix of struggle, post-apocalyptic backdrop and redemption. Not just rummage and shoot-everybody-you-see.
Excellent short! I love how the faded banners/signs in the background show hints at this "Biom Industries". It almost seems like a futuristic tech where people run their bodies on power cells or something, with machine/cybernetic augmentations and that all went wrong, causing the end of the world scenario. Very curious. I really enjoyed it.
85 years old. I know what will happen. My family is all medical people with high thinking we see things lots of people do not see. We see the future. Good luck Musk. Good luck everyone.
Wow What's the weather like up there on your High Horse?
Oh my that was impressive for a short film, what defines a monster is always in the eye of the beholder.
This was great! Well put together, mostly well paced, engaging... And with a good, positive, socially responsible message too! Loved it. Thanks for sharing your talent!
A very well paced, and beautiful short. Very moving, and believable. Excellent acting all the way around. A story well told through imagery, and emotion. Very few words needed, and expertly executed in this regard. You said in response to tobiasthebluemans post that you acknowledge that the film isn't perfect, but I think it is perfect. Well done, and thank you to all involved.
I am the Tainted Man and I approve this comment! Haha! As the "monster" of few words I love that somebody "Gets It!".
I have been in the rabbit hole a long time. So not much surprises me these days. But I must say " very happily surprised" ! Twice today.
I love subverting your plans to destroy earth
I'm not crying! You're crying! (Seriously though, I bawled my eyes out.) Well done! Good job!
The next one should be of those two going to the surface together. That child growing up with the other "mutant" kid. Or something like that. Thumbs up to you for this being such a fantastic video👍🤗😎
yes I agree that would be a nice short film
@@jaimegracia3125 agreed. A miniseries perhaps better
I think they are synths or something
A really unique look at the future, very different than my post-apocalyptic short film. Great sci-fi concepts, I thought the battery powered human modifications was a intriguing plot element. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time she was running back to her son.
that actress looks just like Jennifer Connelly
If they only made full length movies this good! Great film!
No humans left. Only older verses newer Artificial Intelligence Cyborgs.
Yeah, I can see why that is award winning.
Damn, I love this film. One of my favorites period of any kind. I would pay to watch this again and a sequel. Great job...
Was anyone else yelling 'Run..Run..RUN!'? Wish this was a full length feature movie, made by the same people, and with the same actors/actresses. This had the content that deserved and deserves it. Well done, and only wish it had a bit of before and after story.
This would make a kick ass full length movie!!
I loved this short! Awesome job! Better than the crap Hollywood is putting out. More please
The blue "batteries" are made in China... they do not last long.
haha
Hahaha
too true
Yeah it is older
What logic is this ...
Just discovering these short films. I think this is the best one so far, for me.
I’d love to see a sequel to this where the woman and her son go to the surface, meet the family that she helped (and they in return) and take steps towards mutual understanding and reconciliation.
Amazing work Willem! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!
This movie made me reflect on my days of being a Leukemia (Cancer) patient, when I was a child, and how much my parents, family and friends went through, in order to keep me alive.
I am so grateful that I have my mom, and although we may argue and not always agree, not a day goes by when I don't thank God for my Mom and My Step-Mom.
They are both so beautiful, and they are Angels.
Great movie, beginning, middle and end in 20 minutes. Plus it had empathy for all the characters. Thanks
Cool
I thought it was going to be low budget and an easy way to.kill 20 minutes, but it was really good I mean really good. Well impressed.
Великолепный фильм. Режиссерская работа, игра актеров, выше всяких похвал. Сценарий прост и филм короткий, но даже за это короткое время сжал сердце и душу, смог передать то, чего нам так нехватает - доброты и человечности. Спасибо за фильм.
Well,that was time well spent.I love it when that happens!
You know a short film ia good when you wish there was more! Great work to all involved it was weird I felt like I had seen this before but nope, great ending as well!
Just beautiful. Congratulations to all the team behind this amazing short.
I just love this film, I've come back to watch this a few times, great work. That said, wow four commercials in a twenty-minute film, that could be some kind of record.
This was a really good movie and a GREAT story. Please keep it up.
I often find good in individuals, it's,groups and collectives I fear.
true👍
A person is smart, people are dumb panicky dangerous.
@@DhawanGuptaIndia -Agent K
Squad of four or three.
In numbers are strength.
WE ARE THE BORG
Resistance is fut...
battery just went dead
123tominator007 lmfaoooo
That was an amazing short.
One ofthose: don't judge a book by it's cover" stories.
Great effects, great acting, LOVED IT
What I don't get is. if they are not that bad. how come the entire town looks like a shit dump. Massive destruction and something had to be the reason why mankind had to flee underground.
I don't get how it could get so bad. if the inflicted are able to think.
Great short tho. but the plot kinda missed what made the mess, to begin with.
@@Favorline Fear and hatred is what caused the mess, really. Fear and hatred from both the humans and the "tainted."
Finally a great short story beginning to end!! Kudos to all who made this.
It brings tears . For so much love that she had for his son she sacrifice verymuch just to make his child alive. . Very nice short film. .
who else was wandering why the boy couldn't breeze without the power?
It was the future version of an Artificial Lung.
The son has a mechanical heart.
kulsnipr 76 so there were bio techs above and below. Nor so different.
Great SciFi Stlory! You didn't dlo that MOST Annoying Ending of: ambiguity and/or that so very VERY Awful ending where it is basically: "figure it-out-for-yourselves" ending.
GREAT SHORT!! One of my favorites - and I'm going through them all. I see talent. Hope you are continuing on!
Very gifted actress in a remarkable movie. Well done.
I am an avid Sci Fi fan and am happy to see they are making short sci fi films and broadcasting them on U Tube.
Excellent short despite the transhumanism acceptance theme. Great acting, well filmed. Easy to emotionally connect with. Creators should be proud.
A Simple Act of kindness and the result is phenomenal
Nice to see a short film with decent pacing for a change. So many on RUclips drag on for ages or rush through but this one got it right.
It may have been a Kickstarter film when you got too many extras that means you got to pay them for their time being on the set that's what crowdfunding comes in
I was pleasently surprised that the special effects were very well done! When it comes down to it, it really doesn't matter how good of actors you've hired, or how good of a story you've written, or how good of a director you are, if the movie's environment (especially in sci-fi movies) looks too fake or tacky, it doesn't allow the viewer to completely, or even remotely, immerse themselves into the characters and storyline. I also liked the overall idea about humans living underground while the cyborg-like-humanoids live above ground in what looked like a post apocalyptic, destroyed and scorched Earth. And the amount of acting balanced evenly with the action/event scenes. I also enjoyed that there weren't an over dramatic amount of camera angle changes and that you as the viewer got to take in the reality these people live in, as well as be able to really appreciate the effort the people in charge of the set creations and CGI put in to make the movie pretty damn close to seamless. The main character really sold it for me, though! I actually started to tear up towards the end when she believes she is too late and has lost her son, because i felt the raw emotion in her sobbing which forced me to relate by imagining it was someone very near and dear to my heart. She is a very good actor, for it isn't easy to do a crying seen and do it well enough that the viewer can't help but empathize with them and start to get teary eyed as a pure reaction. There were multiple scenes where you could see the tears well up in her eyes, and it really sold the pain and anguish she was going through with a doing everything to try and fix her broken child. And the general theme of not instantly hating what you don't understand is something that really hits home for me, because it's something i see all the time and view as a major problem in our world. Overall, i thoroughly enjoyed it, and to be honest, i really didn't think i would. On a scale from 1-10, i give it an 8.9 out of 10! Good job, Willem! Way to kill that shit!
tobiastheblueman wow. Thank you so much for such an in depth comment and overview. I acknowledge that the film isn't perfect but I love seeing how people see it and feel the themes that we wove into this film. In the end, we all as humans have something broken in our lives that we are looking to fix. Most of the time it just looks different to those who are different than us. Thank you so much for giving the film your time and your energy. It's audience members like you that keep us film makers going.
tobiastheblueman I know her and she is a very good person, as well.
tobiastheblueman I agree! Having a believable setting/special effects is so important and for a low budget film, they were nearly flawless! I also loved the limited exposition. At first, I was bothered by the general lack of details and overall context, but in retrospect, keeping it simple was perfect for the length of the film. It was definitely better to have a few unanswered questions than to be bogged down with useless back story. My only critique would be that the length of time showing how long we left on the son's "battery" was too brief and therefore caused the mother's haste to obtain a new one to be slightly unclear. Overall, it was an amazing movie! Great job Willem Kampenhout! 9.5 out of 10
I couldn't disagree more ,I can use my imagination to excuse any crappy effects ,even bad actors as long as the story or message is there.
I disagree. Case and point Star Wars prequel trilogy. This one has both good actors and good effects.
This is even more impactful now. We are coming out of a pandemic and now are on the verge of world war. We need to see each other as people with the same needs and problems regardless of language or nationality. The only enemies are propaganda and greed, not the average people who are caught in the middle.
OMG, what a lovely short movie and yes don't judge a man from the surface. The lady looks fine for someone who is living underground.
That's life, *you* have to fight for it... Batteries not included!
Lol 😆
Very cool movie!
Had me hooked!!
At the end I was like almost crying... Had that kid died I would've lost it...
Thank you for spoiling it for me
I'm crying my soul out! This was so breathtaking!
thank you. The Tainted Man ;)
The church has shown a message in a language all can understand and accept without prejudice. Smart.
Such a great story. Totally cried! Thank you for this wonderful piece! Makes you think about people on the outside vs what’s on the inside 🤔
OUTSTANDING SOMETHING THIS WORLD NEEDS MORE OF INDEED "
good one ! so much bullshiest scifi short films with wasted to nowhere visual effects and camerawork, but this one is solid, even have moral
Yea its a Great flick !
salute for that mother
No love for the Tainted Father? haha. (That was me)
Just discovered short films. Wow- this one was absolutely beautiful.
I would much rather watch Short Films like this and the Dust series on RUclips than go to any movie. These are so much better!!!!
She started the count down at 3h19m when she left her boy ... and reached the surface at 1h45m ? That leaves her less than 9 minutes to get the thing, because if she isn't back underground at 1h34min, her son will be dead anyway ...
Amazing film nice ending and just great image and audio and everthing
I can see why it won a award.excellent
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I am amazed that there are so many low budget short films that beat the shit out of high budget Hollywood films. Great job on this one!
Marvelous film, really great work, from everyone involved. How ironic to discover that at least some of the "monsters" on the other side are not monsters at all, but just scared people---people who can learn to help each other. Maybe this first meeting between two families will spark something better for the future of their world. I find it absurd and aggravating the these short films are so much better, and so much more riveting, than any of the big budget crap being produced by the so called "Entertainment Industry".