HOPE - Post-Apocalyptic Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- "By transmitting signals from a radio tower, two survivors of the apocalypse desperately cling to the hope that they are not alone."
Co-produced with Ragnarok Film AS - Check out the webpage here: ragnarok-film....
Written, Directed & Edited by Toni Kotka
Produced by Per Kristian Willand Engebretsen
Cinematography by Arne Vidar Stoltenberg
Scenography by Hallvard Hellem
Lighting and Grip by David Hortman Bøe
Score by Kristian Brastein
Starring:
Tomas Grande as Luca
Marius Gjemble as Ford
A big thanks to all the amazing people who supported the production of this film!
The Original Soundtrack is on Spotify!
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Good to see an after actually looking dirty like he's been in the zombie apocalypse for years unlike some of these videos where every one looks clean and fresh cut hair
Cory Sartin fingernails clean asf though
true in general, except it was really distracting that both guys had eyeliner on every day. Like, who has time for that in an apocalypse?
But is Luca wearing eye liner?
I thought the same thing Cory
You can't except film's for what they are but you believe in zombies 😂
Holy crap, the pivotal turn in Luca's story where reality started shifting back to an almost normal really got to me, and how it ended kind of made me feel really sad.
Amazing story guys, this was really deep!
I’ve seen Luca before. He lived on the second floor.
I spent two months homeless a few months ago, I lived among and witnessed people actually like this. This film brings reality to a real trauma these folks suffer. It moved me, good job relating and drumming up a ton of emotions in me.
Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven, search it, watch it.
I too had a choice to make, stay homeless and live free, somewhat, or answer my daughters call to let her take care of me. I answered the walkie-talkie. This really brought me back to those moments living alone in my head. Many are not as fortunate to have a hand out of the hell.
I hope you are doing ok.
It turly is sad how many are homeless and need help. Yet many have nobody, no aid, and almost no escape due to insane laws that bind them to where ever they are. At least that's my thought and opinion. Nothing more than a thought
I'm glad you took the hand offered. May we all be so lucky to recognize it when it happens. I wish you well.
II've lived this 20 years squatting....ruclips.net/video/9hb8WNLCCGA/видео.html
At least that wasn't the same old guy with girl and gun and both look perfectly clean and shaved always, good job. Very creative. Unexpected, so thank you.
I got lost once in Alaska for +30 days, so it was kind of hard for me to watch this. I could relate to every emotion and the loss of his reality. that was 30 years ago for me this short movie was very emotional for me to view. I joke around all the time about my experience but now I realize the impact its had on me. thanks for making this, and I hope you heal from your trauma as I have. because there's no way you could have depicted this so accurately with out being lost a long time...... yourself.
How in the hell did you get lost in Alaska for 30 days?
@@TheDrummerman1951 I was North East of Fort Yukon back in the 80's (before cell phones). I wandered off into Canada. I did a 50 mile right hand circle ended back in Alaska and a road. That's how.
@@danelobe2524 Thanks for your reply and glad your all right must have been scary at times.
You sound like a liar I don’t believe everything these days good luck God bless
Where in ak i live in eagle river were you hunting camping day hike
Ford was a coping mechanism; like Wilson in Cast Away (Tom Hanks movie, early 2000's, I think). Do we take the delusion, or venture towards reality. After all the time of being alone, reality becomes scary. Good movie.
Exactly
The radio was a hallucination, how could the woman know his name?
@@NorseGraphic Maybe the woman was a hallucination as well.
@@NorseGraphic He broadcast his name and that he was with his friend.
What a deep plot. I feel like every conversation is thought through very intensively, to be one of lucas thoughts. Also the way that theyre talking is exactly the same way people are talking to themselves. 👏
Yes! Especially the scene where he was walking on the train tracks. The point of view made it look like he was talking to himself most of that conversation.
His ‘friend’ was the voice in his head that said “there is no-one else, you are all alone, accept it and push on” the ‘woman’ over the radio was another voice in his head, that was the HOPE he was holding onto that someone else existed, that he was not alone. The truth was too hard to accept, so he had a battle raging within.
At the end he was having to come to terms with reality. He decided to accept the truth.
Tinkertime Thank you! Makes sense now
And the mantid? Creeping dispare?
Yes, but at the end of the film before he walks away you see the top of a hood walk past the camera and then Luca following the same path. Two people?
Dude you really have to many ford's running around your studio apartment..
Thanks!
Great story! When Ford presented himself by saying "are you talking to yourself again?" I had a hunch that Luca might be crazy and just imagining his friend from the start, and it was interesting to see if this was the case. I loved how the story was left open, with no questions answered, felt the connection with Luca right there.
This film is so well done its hard to express. I watched it through just once but it stuck in my head for weeks. I couldn't shake the idea of, how lonely do you have to be before your mind creates an imaginary friend. Then how long of living with your figment does it take to forgo the chance to find another real person. This scenario haunted me. Then it hit me.........there is no other person......he is so utterly alone his mind is creating a new friend. It was when he told Ford the radio is how he found him that drew me to the conclusion, there is no one else. Just a desperately lonely person with no hope. Well done.
Great analysis! :)
I got chills reading that... and that's never happened to me before.
Very impressive. I know this story, but you retold it with vigor and care. The actors are to be congratulated. Well done.
Is there one other version?! How may I find it?!
What’s the original story??????
Very nice. I kind of had my suspicions about Ford early on when Luca tried to radio him and Ford just shows up and tells Luca he always knows where he is.
Yes! That first scene where Ford just shows up, for the first few seconds I felt like Ford wasn't really there, just a figment of his imagination. But I pushed that thought to the back of my head and continued.
This was actually one of the best post apocalyptic short films I've ever seen. The story and Luca's experience felt authentic. Great job.
I honestly would love to live this life wether it be short or not it’s the truest sense of freedom I can think of
Incredible short film. I guess his partner Ford, was actually Dead, perhaps from an earlier depiction of their fight, and Luca was suffering from his uncontrollable rage, of having killed the only human being left besides himself, thus his extreme desperation to find another living soul. His insanity completely took over him. Sad case indeed.
Well said
Spot on my friend. .😎
What if his friend didn't exist
@@adamteashaw9441 That's what I was actually thinking aswell! What is his friend is only a depiction of his desperation, making him imagining things that weren't there?
What if the sounds on the radio is actually his imagination too? Luca said he met Ford by a radio signal
What if this all only happened in his head and not in reality?
@@aerialfishuu it is right and when a real person contacts he starts losing contact with floyd
This film brings reality to a real trauma these folks suffer. It moved me, good job relating and drumming up a ton of emotions in me. I spent two months homeless a few months ago, I lived among and witnessed people actually like this
Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven, search it, watch it.
I too had a choice to make, stay homeless and live free, somewhat, or answer my daughters call to let her take care of me. I answered the walkie-talkie. This really brought me back to those moments living alone in my head. Many are not as fortunate to have a hand out of the hell.
two guys spend a long, long time together meeting no-one. On their travels they find people who have lost hope. There then comes a choice of more the same or to hope for contact. Good acting all the way.
Some pluses and minuses both in this film ( minuses like having filthy faces and skin even after just having had a bath,or frequently finding canned goods but not being able to find/ improve their tattered clothes, a little too much eyeliner on Luca!, both bodies Luca found still being fairly fresh, though whatever SHTF event occured, was supposed to have taken place 7 years previous) Still though, overall entertaining and fairly well done. I would argue that both Ford (Ford gives us a clue that he may be a delusion when he mentions Luca stinks, but he himself is relatively odorless!) and the voice in the radio signal were part of Luca's delusion. The 'HOPE' being the psychological carrot he dangles in front of himself to continue to have a reason to live and carry on. Gave it a thumbs up overall.
Pretty sure the woman hanging was a regression back to his wife. Hence the fresh body u mentioned. So it fits w the story.
Maybe neither of the bodies were dead for 7 years.
After all, i just realized... Luca has been alone all the time. And, Ford is just part of his subconscious mind already...his HOPE to keep living and accept the fact that he's the only one left there ALONE.
It was brilliant. But it would have blown me away if Luca was the illusion and Ford was desperately trying to prevent him from disappearing forever.
Wow, yeah. That would've been some twist! Good idea :)
Deeeeeeep twist :D
I am rarely moved to comment on shorts in this genre. This was a thinking-mans film. Yes, you could spend all day poking holes in it. But ultimately the need for hope (in any form) is chillingly shown to us. I found myself immersed throughout the entire story.
Everyone knows he answered the radio and that's when all the chaos began.
Very good screenplay. Its an unusual psychological drama. The dead bodies 'found' leaves alot to wonder about. Some Lessons: Always keep your batteries charged, walkie talkie on, and use a large hilltop antenna to reach far way persons who just might be listening. Just dont IGNORE the signals. Only at the ending is I fully understood this film: hopeful, yet ironically -hopeless in a sense... Definitely a must-see.
Almost feel like a professional made movie, these two actors are really good!.
Very relevant in today’s society.
On how individuals suppress their rational side for hope something will change, enabling them to find happiness or fulfilment of their life.
Opening your eyes to the personal responsibility of the self.
Превосходно!
Замечательная режиссура прекрасные актеры великолепная операторская работа. Всё вместе сошлось в этот маленький шедевр.
Good job on the wardrobe. I've seen many post apocalyptic short films, and the actors always look way to clean. Hair is clean, face is clean. If the clothes are tattered, the material is also very clean. It makes it hard to get into the feel of the end of the world.
Great job!
These actors we're actually pretty good. 👍
Thanks!
They really were decent; other than the tackle at 23:48. LOL 🤣
the music was excellent, went with the mood changes of the characters perfectly
in fact that was the first thing that drew me in
2:25 told you everything...if you were paying attention and this movie deserves attention.
Yeah! Great comment, thank you :D
Holy cow! That was freaking amazing, I was at the edge of my seat. Loved the storyline, it was deep and so well put together. I'd absolutely love to see a part 2 of this short film.
Nothing else....just....WOW! This is again why I love shorts. So much put into so little time. Simply Brilliant.
Thank you.
Great movie and for me, over the story, ther is this exceptionnal sound track over! The movie wouldn't have been the same whithout this great music behind. It's an entire part of the ambiance, the landscape ... Lucas and Ford are acting over expected too. 29:35 minutes of movie delight for me.
Nicely done! Which do we choose, our comfortable self-delusion or the "hope" of something unseen?
You get the gist! Bravo!
@@inspectorgary1000 the bro only exists in his mind and some women can be better friends than some "bros"...
@@inspectorgary1000
How can something real come from something not real.....?
Unless I'm missing what you're saying!
I just watched your film, stunning work! Thank you for making and sharing this!
I really enjoyed this! The mournful expectation in Luka's eyes each time he heard a response on the radio. These two delivered Oscar worthy performances!
The character of Ford was well conceived and acted.
Can someone try to explain this to me, I’m assuming Ford was dead the whole time and is only the protagonists mind as he tries to find another person besides ford (which he could of killed). I’m also assuming the whole thing has impacted the protagonist heavily in that he tried to take his own life as mentioned by his subconscious (Ford).
Plus, the woman on the radio is probably also in his mind. Since she call him by name.
@@edwardmurdoch5070 He did mention his name on the walky talkey so she might be real. Not alot of range on just the walky and her voice was coming in real clear so could be imagination too.I guess it's up to you if want to believe if she real or not.
@@darmuslives4340 It could be.
Then again, the radio is how he found Ford...
And Ford is interacting with ¨that reality¨, he is aware of her existence by telling Luca that if he searches for her, he would be gone.
@@edwardmurdoch5070 Of course he's aware of her existence, he's Luca's subconscious. And if Luca finds a real person/woman/friend, then Ford would be gone because Luca wouldn't need Ford anymore. Meaning, to my mind, that the woman is real.
WOW This is a deep film very creative truly brilliant.
Better than many of the movies I have paid to see. Thank you.
I watch a lot of these films. This was very very good. Loved it. Legit good.
Wow... I am still reeling. So strong, so true. Congratulations on a superb movie.
Stunning work, despite a comment from another user I actually really liked the ending.
Please don't read the comments until you've watched the production. They shouldn't be able to sway your own opinion! Peace!
Too much loneliness can bring an insanity of schizophrenia . Come together for survival but still keep your own independent space !
Yer... That s why yu need to prepare it long before it s starting...
very nice twist at the end you can feel this mans pain……...
If you guys wrote Hollywood films, we wouldn't have 100 reboots of old movies
One of the early explorers of the US was missing 5 years alone and when he was asked if he had been lost he said no I just did not know where I was. He never felt lost. Perspective.
Awesome..... very powerful and original. The exact opposite of Hollywood.
Need to get the people who write these short films as writers for Hollywood. Then we wouldn't just have 100 reboots of old movies
I know right?! My mind is still twisted I can't remember when a Hollywood movie made my mind twist this much 😂
@Gerrit Peacock and they are old and die..thats why they recrute.....but time is against them...they waited to long.....and they will meet theyre so called god.....what can they expect.....they will be meat 4 the grinder not more....kek
Excellent film. The acting, direction, writing, and soundtrack were superb. Add it all up and great job.
i loved it more than "SIREN"
This was well done left me wanting more. Probably the best one of the style on youtube in my opinion .
Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was so mcuh deeper than I was expecting, wow
Only sound for one set of footsteps except when the other is clearly in view. Very nice!
Brilliant work and acting. There is nothing to say but good things. The way they sang that song of a better time and how volatile they were and the emotional breakdown of the reality of the loneliness he was facing and a hope of someone waiting for him to find and giving him a purpose to carry on. I may be wrong but was the friend a made up imaginary friend because I am always the last to figure things out.
One last question is where was this filmed? It reminds me of home and the east coast of Canada. Newfoundland looks just like that. It made me miss home. Cheers and I will sub. That actor is very good and he deserves a my thumbs up.
Thanks! You are absolutely right about Ford being an imaginary friend. This was filmed in Norway.
Norway or Nfld or Labrador: all hardy people. If it was Newfoundland, though, Luca would have had a fiddle strapped to his pack and he would have remembered the 'chant'... :)
He realized the voice on the radio was an imagination, as it called out his name... Thus he went with Ford. At least he knew with Ford he could survive.
Ford is not real too, he is a coping mechanism of luca. Notice: when ford scared luca in the beginning, ford said he always knows where luca is. Also when they walked on the traintracks ford was reminding luca of good and bad memories, saying; “you couldnt even slit your own wrist”, wich is clearly luca talking to himself. Also ford claims that luca smells, whilst he himself is pretty odorless. Propably along with some other hints i didnt notice. In the ending, ford suddenly disappears from underneith luca, and pops up behind him, wich is another hint to his non existence. Your right that the voice from the walkey talkey in the end is lucas imagination cuz she knows his name, and it is symbolising hope for finally finding another human being. Ford says “if you answer that i’ll be gone forever”, not because he wants to leave or for no reason, but because luca knows deep down that the voice is imaginary, and if he answers it’ll be gone. Thus the hope for finding someone will be “gone forever”.
@@patrykbielecki1949 Good point(s).
@@patrykbielecki1949 did he not say his name on the radio?
Great short film that kept viewer interested as to what happens next. So many questions were left to be answered in the clip, the production team could have another successful film if they make it. They just need to get the word out, maybe with an announcement at the end of the clip.
Thank you! We have more films planned, but getting economic support is rough. We're working on it!
As the world fell...each of us in our own way was broken. - "Mad" Max Rockatansky, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Some things in this world are...are better left where they lie. But if you know where to look, these ruins are full of riches. - 2, 9 (2009)
Strange but interesting. Not my usual type of movie to like but I found this one entertaining. Slow but entertaining. Reminded me of a Ray Bradbury story of a man left behind on a planet.
Well done. I didn't suspect until they were fighting. But did he also imagine the corpse form which he took the ring? And wasn't there a body in the bunker where he found the map to the tower? If its been 7 years since this apocalypse, they would be skeletons by then. Or, there are a number of survivors scattered around and he has managed to avoid them due to his insanity.
He took the ring off of his dead wife.
The cold would slow down decomposition.
Plus it was indoors basically like a fridge no insects to speed up the process.
Excellently done great story 5 stars
Woiw. What a deep dive into the depths of the human psyche. Well done!
I like these films. When all is stripped away who are we.
I don't think Ford was anything negative. I think Ford was a manifestation of Luca's survival instinct. The very first thing we see Luca do is steal jewelry, where as Ford gives him canned food. Luca want. Ford tells Luca to bathe, encourages them to go to an area with a warmer climate, discouraging suicide, and ultimately to stick with him and not the woman. Stick with your survival instincts. If people have been gone for so long and she somehow survived she can't be as defenseless as she sounds, it could be a trap. If she is defenseless than it's going to be a burden on his survival, which he is already barely doing. There is a hierarchy of basic needs and unfortunately shelter and food come before companionship. His survival could be threatened by her and in those living conditions there would be no way to reproduce.
Excellent points. Very clever, sir.
Very Rod Serling-like script! Great acting & excellent cinematography... A+++ in my book! Can't wait for more works like this!
What a great show. I watched it twice so far, back to back. 😊
Outstanding acting. I felt on a journey with them. Simple yet so complex. Thank you! I would have watched a whole movie of them no problem with the right scripting.
It's funny that about 90% of the short films are Post Apocalyptic. and some are very good nice job.
их легче всего делать. Заброшеных мест по всей планете много, не нужны декорации, реквизит тоже в доступности, в любом чердаке или подвале куча старых вещей. Измазался грязью из лужи и полностью готов к съемкам.
Great video I don't think I will be able to forget this one
Thank you
Beautifully done. Incredibly emotional and moving.
I can only wonder at the missed clue that proved that there were other survivors "out there". The hanged woman he took the ring off of was FRESH, not rot-brown, but freshly hung. How could he have missed that???? Had she been hanging for over a week she'd have putrefied and come off the rope with a splat.
@Ragnarok Film
Ford said his radio battary had run out. Doe this mean Luca's radio was dead an that he was imagining all the radio noise?
This is a beautifully-done film (in every way). But damn, it's sad and lonely.
I said to myself: "Self, that was deep."
Excellent!!! You found some fantastic actors as well!
Awesome movie outstanding
This was an excellent short. What did you shoot on? Camera and lens specs please. Beautiful cinematography
Thanks! We shot this on the Sony F3 with Sony Prime Lenses (35mm, 50mm, 85mm). We also had a few macro shots with a Canon 750D.
@@RagnarokFilm looked great! How long did it take you to shoot?
@@jerrysommer5379 We spent about five months from the first script to the final cut. The shoot itself took about a week.
@@RagnarokFilm Nice, can't wait to see what's next. Keep up the good work👍
Great, I escape DUST because I'm sick to death of writing my own endings and this happens. Isn't it a bit pretentious - or at least lazy - to not just finish a script? The problem with the sort of people who thrive on movies where they can say "you just don't get it" is that they only satisfy people who can't think of more than one explanation. The rest of us, people who spend all day writing software and want to take a break from thinking and just watch a good story, are left dissatisfied. Soooo much potential too, it was brilliant til it wasn't :(
After all....Our reality is actually a survivable delusion.... A hallucination if you will, developed and presented by our imperfect organic brain. Our interface with a reality that is far harsher and disturbing than we could survive otherwise.... Trauma and loss temporarily remove some part of this delusion, which we experience with horror and grief.... As the delusion repairs itself we heal
WIIILSOON
ford is a great actor, luca feels like he's over-emotionalizing his lines
Great movie, one the best Ive seen here.. Loved the mood, the actors were awesome..
"If you answer that.. Im gone forever".... xD
I'm female so maybe that's why I did not like it! LOL I'd have chosen the voice over the mic long before a hallucination of a man, if I were a man! :-)
@@TerryReedMiss You assume he is straight.
@@TerryReedMiss You assume he is straight.
Wow... powerful but sad. Heartbreaking as well. Very good job.
My name is Luca.......
I live on the second floor.....
I live upstairs from you...
Yes, I think you've seen me before...
Love the moves
This was very well thought out. Great film, Toni! These guys looked the part too. At least he's still got his dead friend for company. Wish I knew what was going to happen to him...Thanks, I really enjoyed it!
I don't believe that has a happy ending
I'm guessing he answered the call. May not be best to listen to the part of oneself that is always the negative part. I was wondering if Ford was real or in his head. Hard to imagine only one person left no matter what happens. Great film. Emotional, believable, from Luca's dirty appearance to his attempt to pound Ford to death. Well written and acted.
Makes you wonder, if the voice on the walkie was ever real too
Recomiendo ver "The Road", con Viggo Mortensen. Por cierto, buen corto! Aunque yo personalmente no sé si podría aguantar solo en esas circunstancias, aun sabiendo que hay alguien más ahí fuera...
The road is an amazing film aswell!
i liked the Road i also though the road was amazing.
these are settlers like in the Road...the settlers versus the raiders was a hugh part of the American Civil War II., the settlers are always trying to set up settler recruitment beacon towers and use the radio waves for settlement recruitment to have more people in there settlements.
DUDE! ! ! ! ! !
ENGLISH, ENGLISH, ENGLISH!!!!!!
If you want to post Spanish replies, then use the Spanish version!!!!!!!!
17 couch potatoes with no skills, job or purpose in life voted this film down. Most likely they are too damn stupid to understand the story and appreciate the cinematography alone. The actor were outstanding and those nasty, hateful people show up. Don't tell me it is an opinion because unless you are 3 years old and wanting dinosaurs to show up your thumb down is a joke. Maybe Darth Vader will show up on the next film you watch.
The other thing is why do people analyze the fine details like clean shaven and clothes and should look past that because it is a short film on a tiny budget. People need to get past those things and look at the vision, acting and story line and how many are putting their life into these films and can't afford a stylist and a wardrobe professional to amuse the shallow people looking for a Hollywood production.
Alex Treasure Hunter who are you to tell people what is acceptable for them to like or not like??? You comment is what sounded like it came from a three year old...
bruh its just a movie some idiot kids disliking it aint that deep
Yes, Art is subjective but, really, it was by any film-educated standards just so thoughtfully done. If it just boils down to 'not my thing' is that any logical reason to give it a thumbs down? What we really need is more than one category to rate these: perhaps whether you would recommend it and whether you think there is artistic or technical merit. Say, three categories. By the way, if it's not your thing, that is an important and valid metric for predicting a film's box office success. I mean, mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and futurism fans spend any real time here: we are the people who matter to these makers and distributors so let us be the focus group. Ball's in your court, Dust!
So many emotions. This was a really great short. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Good film... but whats with the bugs?
A cultural trope imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. About a quarter of male-female encounters result in the male being eaten by the female.
Awesome !
Exceptional job. Very well done. Thank you.
She knew his name, Luca. So this was just his imagination. Well done film.
Perhaps because he announced his name over the radio?
He told her his name and his friend name and how they met before he took his nap
THE WIND BLOWS WHERE ONLY STUMPS STAND,
THERE ARE NO LEAFS TO RUSTLE, FOR THERE ARE NO TREES,
NO ONE TO HEAR, NO ONE TO SEE, JUST THE WIND AND ME.
Good but sad and I am kind of sick of the whole broken human being thing. Personally I think I would have loved the apocalypse in my 20's and 30's but now that I'm old and fat I will probibly never become a warlord even it it does happen next year.
Lol !! That makes two of us !! ,
Lmfaooo :)
LOL
Haha warlord
i have thought the same
That was fantastic. Surprising and sad.
Nice bit of their. Bombastic!
Замечательно) посмотрел с удовольствием.
not a bad show. decent acting. nice idea. if he had not been insane maybe he could have operated the radio better.