The Rising - Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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THE RISING is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short film from Berlin. After its initial release in August 2012 the film went on a festival tour around the world for one year and subsequently was released online for free.
Summary
2057. More than 25 years have passed since the incident destroyed the planet's atmosphere. The survivors took refuge in shelters, buried deep into the ground. At surface level LE-E-003976 is gathering data and samples of the toxic environment. To this day he has never come across a single human soul on his predefined path through the bleak wastelands. But today LE-E is not alone.
Crew
Director: Sebastian Mattukat
Writers: Sebastian Mattukat & Tobias Voigt
Producers: Mario Koch and Claudio Gasperi & Tobias Voigt
Director of Photography: Jakob Ebert, BVK
Editor: Anne Kristina Kliem, BFS
Music & Sounddesign: Tobias Voigt
VFX Supervisor: Frank Hinrichs
Grading: Stefan King
Cast
Lee: Leander Modersohn
Soldier (Leader): Christoph Drobig
Soldier 2: Floris Asche
Soldier 3: Julian Seiffert
Those cornstalks certainly weathered 25 years incredibly well.
Wait a minute....you've got this guy from the future in a world that has been devastated for many years and corn stalks are still in the field...……….
That cornfield looks pretty good for laying fallow for 25 years! Someone is still cutting it
Of course. The clones.
Absolute top-five material. Every last shot was balanced, beautiful and used with intention. Frugal pacing, nice prop work and no spoon-feeding.
Great. Unpredictable. Nice visuals.
One small rational mistake at 7:10 minutes: the soldiers would probably stop and shoot rather than keep on running behind him at this short distance.
Ammo mat be scarce and with all the different types...
He was the first and they needed him back to analyze why they were resisting
0:44 is how far I made it. It's been 25 years since humans have been on the surface of the earth and the guy wakes up next to a corn field that had been cut just a few months earlier. I'm thinking these post-apocalyptic films are made by city kids who've spent most of their life in front of a video screen playing games. They seem to be completely oblivious about the world.
Or the regular spacing of what is clearly a human-planted uniculture forest. Forests don't politely order themselves in neat rows of identical species of trees all exactly the same size and age.
Water Bug it’s a film, chill out you arrogant asshole
Loved the cinematograpghy!
Don't care how many awards it got, stupid story line, a lot of senseless running around, no plot, no climax (unless one counts numerous head shots as climaxes), no ending. Ya gotta love the part where a lead soldier signals the other to circle around to the left... and the guy just keeps following him. Two thumbs down.
The rewards etc. are political. Movie starts with a required group-think. Conform or thou shalt receive no awards! Amazing how coordinated it is. Quite spectacularly, actually.
Love the dialogs specially.
Always good to see short-form fiction.
Lets just hope Hollywood doesnt pick it up and makes it into a blockbuster ^^
audio and color grading were superb too
By far the best post-apocalyptic short film I've sure as hell seen. Wonderful cinematography and the locations you used are damn near phenomenal. Keep up the good work!
No, yet another degrading existentialist walk to nowhere.
Wow! I don’t get the hate for this. While not Hollywood budget it made perfect sense to me. I liked it. Sometimes your imagination has to add a bit instead of being spoon fed a story line.
Thanks man! Much appreciated.
Better done than most of these sci/fiction shorts. Thank-you.
just a hint: if you're trying to convince your viewers that this is happening *25 years* after some apocalypse, you might *not* want to open with a scene of a guy in a field with the stubs of corn stalks visible. a year, maybe two, you'd see them, then they'd be gone, overgrown by other plants.
Or the fresh tire tracks??
@@kjbuchanan63 yeah, those too.
I missed the plot. Anybody else?
Cloned warriors.
9 mins of movie and 4 mins of credits ??LOL
The credits came on with so much time remaining that I expected a "post credits conclusion".
I hate to be "that guy" ..... but you forgot about the helicopter chasing them..... The helicopter just disappeared and left them alone?
Excellently constructed, filmed & produced. Conceptually wonderful. This is why I love short film
Wow! ..Amazing! .. More please ..
Also if the Atmosphere was destroyed the planet would look like Mars?
The clones are genetically superior, thus able to survive without safety gear. The humans are out to terminate them.
Very cool story.
Tsk... mankind's hubris is probably the worst thing you can dump into the atmosphere.
A very good short
Map on Bosnia and Serbia in 9:12 ?
DID ANYONE NOTICE THE GUY POOPING IN THE FEILD 😂😂😂
This was a great short film! Make more!
good film
Excellent film! Just curious, what camera did you use to shoot this on?
Thank you. We used the Red One with Mysterium X Sensor in 4,5k with Red Prime lenses.
good thing that last five seconds made the cut. lol
The world is devastated for at least 25 years, but trees in the "forest" (it's more a plantation) are nicely standing in straight lines, and the fields have corn stalks. Not very convincing.
For the rest: no plot, no story, no climax... very weak movie.
Nice Short Film, Keep up the amazing work, Nice job fellas :)
Thank you.
Very cool, love the color and locations! FILMS!
One of those "you gotta watch this guys".
Wait, the atmosphere has been destroyed, yet there's still clouds? A helicopter can fly? Sound can travel? I could understand if there was no oxygen left, but it just feels a bit implausible when you're claiming there's no atmosphere when we saw a helicopter flying and clouds...
Maybe the atmosphere reformed but with more toxic components or whatever science is behind that
At the intro of the film, when they claimed the atmosphere was destroyed, I took it to mean it was destroyed for humans (by humans). It would have also meant it was incapable of supporting animal life, but I'd think plants could and did survive - slowly replenishing the oxygen levels. Nothing else was indicated having been destroyed...so as long as there is water vapor - clouds. Atmosphere at all - sound. Low O2 levels might mean the helicopter engine wouldn't work, but they could bottle O2 to feed into the engine.
Wow. This was awesome. Wish it was a full length movie, I would pay to see it / buy it.
Excellent. There are only a few videos that tell the story without words.
Wonderful. Great job everyone
Did that one soldier had a german WWII MP40?
Wow, MP-38! With tins-and-whistles!
Very good movie. Congratulations.
Well done!!!
If the Atmosphere was destroyed, there would be no life on Earth at all.
Fantastic!!! I see you used the Red One. What lens did you use primarily? Also, do you feel the current Blackmagic Cameras are capable of this level of quality?
Why are there fresh tire tracks at 3:16?
Uhm... choosing settings... a harvested field wouldn’t have the cut stalks still remaining standing 25 years later, let alone remaining open soil with zero invasive plant growth in the field.
...WOWW.., Freaky..!! (..& kinda "disturbing"..) Cool song at thee end, too.., Katharina is awesome.., haunting voice..
Very cool!
camera used?
very nice!
Sorry but I don't know what it is about short films and creators of them that they gravitate so strongly towards post Apocalypse themes. Maybe because it's cheaper and easier just to use a handful of survivors out in the woods and bring a camera for a small scale film? Just like every other and other and other and other and other and other and other... Can someone come up with some originality?
Here’s a thought. You go make an ordinal film. You don’t have to like it they made the film they wanted to make.
There's nothing wrong with post-apocalyptic films. If you don't like such theme, why watch it?
All themes have been done before. The question is how well is it done this time? In this case, the story and directing is stupid on pixels. A *good* post apocalyptic film is well worth the watch... just like any other movie. This is not a good film regardless of theme.
Sci-fi is a very popular theme in the world of short films, and sci-fi can interweave almost any other theme into it.
Actually, that's exactly the reason a lot of new directors start out with apocalypse films, you don't need fancy sets, you can just use whatever abandoned buildings are in your town, and you don't necessarily need expensive props. And yes, a lot of these films lack a strong plot or characterization, and the acting is often so-so (hence why so many have little dialogue), but you have to start somewhere. Even a basic, low-budget movie takes a lot of hard work and time. Give the guys a break!
Great concept! Ending is bit dicey but you can get the idea pretty clearly. Nice job!
Bad-Ass!
Thoroughly enjoyed this film.
Very interesting film. Good plot. I would want to see more.
In the post-apocalyptic future, no one. ever. talks. :)
They have trouble remembering their lines...because of the lack of O2. Character actors. Dialog takes effort. As long as people are happy with crap then others will continue to give it to them.
I don't think there would be noticeable remnants of cultivated fields after 25 years.
Or tire tracks in the dirt road...entertaining otherwise.
This is like Aeon Flux ........done right!!!
Really well shot, some visual story telling
+Finding Forty-Two *Some Great visual story telling
One of the absolute greatest short films on RUclips. One of the greatest I've ever seen. Liked and subscribed, keep up the good work!
EXCELLENT more please
The BBC series 'In the Flesh' is supposedly a sequel to something called 'The Rising'. Is this it or should I be looking for something else with the same title?
Thank you, Sebastian. I'll keep looking.
Yeah i thought that too, but the people mistook the information :/
really bad even taking out the stupid 3 and half minutes of created at the end for a really short with so much wrong too much to list
WTF is with the tire tracks in the mud at 3:35 if there's no life above ground...
Helicopter?
25 years after going underground we're still making Mylar space blankets? We have better survival tech NOW. WTF?
Okay, let's say it's a timeline difference.
Better yet, let's just enjoy the entertainment. Like vampires, werewolves, and zombies creating a new society bent on procreation with normal humans.
I had a problem with the fresh harvested corn field
Okay confused as to what is really going on. Ending bit tacky were they being hunted and why?
Pause at 0:25; pause at 5:00. Humans are sending out genetically modified clones to scout the surface, which is inhospitable to humans. Some of the clones decide to stay on the surface rather than return with samples/information. The humans view them as a threat, which leads to hunting them down and killing them if they go AWOL. The clones decide to fight back.
Make full movies!!!!
This channel doesn't make films.
They're a platform for makers of short films to show their work.
Excellent work all around! The Film doesn't try explain anything which is irrelevant for understanding whats going on, but doesn't either mystify anything, and it uses Clone-trope of the PA/Scifi genre very interesting way (clones vs clones, I assume).
Compact master piece. I Enjoyed all the time. :)
I'm getting tired of stories that go nowhere. Would it be too much to ask for a film to be understandable?
these short films are usually not meant to be much more than pilots, used to get investors' interest to try and get fledgling studios into budgets capable of making feature length movies
Well done!
What the hell is this movie about??
I wish there were sub titles added so I could understand what the hell this was about.
A very good short film
this is awesome short movie..
Nice short but the plot is ridiculous. Why do they need those modified clones? For taking samples? We see that normal people can survive outside in gas mask or hazmat suits so why not use them. Also if they can modify humans to survive outside, then problem f*king solve! Do that with everyone!
It would make sense if survivors wanted to keep the genome clean ( for any reason ) and use this clones as a cheap labour to build domes, shelters, clean the environment. Basically use those clones as slaves on mass scale to build whatever is needed to survive, but just taking samples make no sense.
Other option Normal humans do not leave shelters because it is to dangerous, so they send this clones. Like in 12 Monkeys where they were sending only prisoners outside. Clones that abandon their mission can be killed with drones instead of soldiers.
Ether way nice short, from the cinematic point of view it was great.
Thanks for your time :)
Not bad. It really could be longer and would be really good .
awesome cinematography!
Top notch work.I did not like being left hanging as to where those guys were going to,and what for.it seems like that is the way most of the shorts about the come back from disaster are.I would like them to give me a few more answers.But I ask to many questions,about every thing.
BRAVO!!!!
Helicopter internal combustion at 5% oxygen concentration. Huuummmm????
We have the tech in today's world to get around that problem. There's no oxygen in space and very little under water but we have space shuttles and submarines that operate fine, just saying...
Best work!I really like
Nicely done!
Thank you.
Crazy, creepy cool!
Well Done, great concept! One minor item for next time. Great action stuff, but learn how to hold guns properly, don't let one character point the gun at another character. It is cardinal no-no of gun safety and the military. Maybe find a script supervisor. Otherwise great stuff!
Thanks, appreciate your nice words.
@3:27 the guy walking down a road that showed tire impressions. How are they there after 25 yrs. Another the world ending in 12 years scare movie. But for Sci- Fi does pretty well..
I like the concept, any chance of a feature film?
Cool film. Better than some of the bullshit coming out of hollywierd theses days.
Great stuff!
I Loved!
If the atmosphere is destroyed, why he does not have a protective gears or at least a breathing mask.
Genetically modified
no atmosphere, yet he is in a Forrest... toxic environment, yet he wears nothing for protection? have high powered weapons with at least 30 rounds, yet they get taken by a hand gun... 🤣
Really good this was
Can anyone direct me to so "feel good" post apocalyptic shorts?
Do they exist?
Lol! 😂 Think hard to find....
Yes, they do. There are many, for example search for "Merv".
That's insane👍👍💪
It was shot well.
So in the opening scene he is in a harvested corn field so apparently farmers weren't affected by the "incident".
John whitsel Or the corn isn’t effected and the clones are doing the farmers work?
Ultimately pointless.
So for clones read drone as in worker drone, I wonder how small the human pool has gotten, oh and 3:15 car tracks...x nicely done.
Vcs deviam fazer legendado em português(Brasil) .
Nice One!!
There is a short made by Duo Cartoonist called "Children of the Night," in which one of the leaders of the group calls upon the children of that group to follow her to a new land. Watching this, I resonated with the children, wanting to escape the harsh control of that group. Showing this to another person who has a child of his own, he found it disturbing since he saw it from the eyes of someone possibly stealing away his daughter.
Watching this, I immediately resonated with the rebels. When they converged upon where they originated my prime thought was, "Good!" Anyone who resonates with those who sent the rebels out need to look themselves in the mirror and ask what turned them in such a direction.