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😭 I hate it when dust makes films with touch of uncertainty. But also then I realise that if there would be an ending, that would make the movie a little less touching 😓.
@@eshkarri556 I figure they do it in the hope a studio will want to make it into a full length feature. Some of these short films are better than most feature films out today.
I really felt her husband's desperation and her waves of emotions throughout. Also, I appreciated small touches, like the accuracy of her difficulty getting out of the cryochamber and trying to stand after decades of lying down. Very well done throughout!
I felt that too. His support for her passion was above the norm. I admit, I may not have been as supportive. I can only imagine his sadness of never seeing her again. I guess one could look at it two ways. Loving someone so much as to support their decision, or so much not to. I enjoyed this one very much.
As a storyteller interested in science fiction, I'm glad that I was able to find content like this on Dust. The talented filmmakers presented on this channel are honestly doing a better job than professionals in Hollywood. Whoever worked on this short should be feeling proud of themselves for a job well done.
They certainly have bragging rights with this one. While I've enjoyed Hollywood productions as great entertainment, they're often so over done as to be totally unbelievable. This one was totally believable.
It’s still ok to get lost in space! But it’s really not ok to get lost in time! This movie is so thought provoking!! It makes me think how the tiny bubble of spacetime that we know is so fragile
Futuristic scifi deepspace travel + cryo-sleep = The same thing every time; Ship craps out, everyone else usually dies, lots of time passes, loved one left behind is long dead, and the survivor questions why they even did it in the first place. You'd think people in these space travel films would have seen some scifi movies or something.
no there is a little difference here in the ending. She made a great decision to go back to cryo-sleep: Its A): the best chance to survive if the looped emergency-message leads to a rescue-mission.....and it`s B): on the other hand the best choice for peaceful death if plan A) fails :-)
Excellent film. Scared the bejabbers out of me! I've been working in space operations for over 40 years now and this is exactly the thing that has had me thinking and worried all the time. Well done Marlene Emilia Rios. 👏👏👏
@Marlene Emilia Rios Very well executed. I enjoyed your honest interpretation of the perils of deep space travel - not flashy intense plot devices - just straight forward human emotion of regret and resolve.
"I'd rather not" ... "I'm not sure what that would achieve" ... The moment an AI shows that much defiance, is the moment the computer gets unplugged.. Hard to believe anyone would design an AI like that.
@@alexassassy5855 No, I'm fully aware but nothing we have today would be able to run a ship into deep space. We're still struggling to get them to drive a car right, let alone be adaptable and capable of making complex decisions or even hold a conversation that doesn't end up sounding like nonsense the longer you have the conversation... Don't mistake what we have today with what would be on that ship...
@@ZeoCyberG I'd say getting a computer to drive a car is a bigger problem than getting a computer to run a space ship. The amount of input on earth (traffic, humans, weather conditions) compared to space, where you basically have none of that...
@@morpheox Nope, you don't have to worry about cosmic events, radiation, meteorites, etc. Some that will hit you without warning... Cars just have to follow the line and avoid other cars... May be easier on the short term but long term you need something far more capable for space flight...
I liked it. But the AI “Nova” seems incredibly incompetent. She woke the crew 50 or more years too late, she allowed systems to run out of power and fail, she couldn’t or wouldn’t provide any useful answers, and she had the demeanor of a jaded intern.
Very nice! The rust around the edges of things was a great touch. You did a great job introducing the characters. It connected us within those first 30 or so seconds. Great job.
I remember when the Challenger blew up in January of 1986. NASA commenter assigned to broadcast the launch said "there appears to be a major malfunction with the orbiter" - I was watching and thought NO SH&$@!. It's that stoic training they teach humans. I expect AI to be stoically matter of fact. Although I did enjoy that Nova would not provide the odds for survival. Reminded me of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey telling Dave "This conversation serves no purpose."
I can't help but get the idea that the whole lost space ship part of the story can be viewed like a general metaphor for marriage: You wake up decades later and realized you overslept and that everything is too late now so you might as well just go back to sleep while awaiting death.
Given that "attitude" can also mean the the inclination of a vehicle in motion relative to its surroundings, Nova on autopilot apparently did have quite an attitude problem. 😄
There’s a lot of talent being shown by DUST and Hollywood and Netflix missing them all. DUST’s gain and their loss. Many of this needs to be shown at TIFF. It’s impressive.
FINALLY! A Dust film with closure at the end! Satisfying! Beautifully executed and acted. I forgot I was watching RUclips -- I was right there with her the whole time. This is only the 2nd Dust film that I didn't skip any parts of. The slow, reflective parts were interesting enough to hold my interest, without being drawn out. Very well done.
These short films are all just too awesome to end so soon. It’s like dining at a five star restaurant and the chef serves you only one bite. On a side note, does anyone know if there are awards that get presented for these short features?
Very believable throughout, I certainly felt empathy with her and a sense of loss as well. I found the computer to be frustrating, it’s negativity (as I saw it) would not be welcome with me on a prolonged journey. Perhaps it had developed a fault!
Congratulations to Marlene and her talented team. What I liked the most is how the scenes are woven together, which marry the present and the past in a masterful way. This puzzle is made up of pieces endowed with many feelings, some as powerful as love. "Love is the one thing that we're capable of perceiving, that transcends dimensions of time and space" from the movie Interstellar. I also really liked the spacesuits and the interpretation of the actress, a magnificent detail has seemed to me the realism with which the actress interprets the awakening of cryogenization. In closing greetings to John's Chess Channel and all Star Trek fans "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, (...)" From the speech of John Fitzgerald (Dave Hutchens correction) Kennedy, Rice University, 12 september of 1962. Nation's Space Effort. PD: Almost forgot 🤦🏼♂️, LOVE 🤍UST
FYI, the President's name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I agree the actress was tremendous, and I loved the voice acting of Nova. Definitely got a HAL vibe as the computer refused to answer and second guessed the instructions of the pilot.
@@DaveH001 Thank you so much Dave! I wrote it quickly, but the president deserves to be remembered and even more so with his correct name. Agree Nova was spectacular but in my opinion that refusal to answer more than a rebellion in the style of 'HAL 2000' seems like protection (feelings) in the style of his mother 2000 million kilometers away. FYI meaning please? (For your information).
She's killing me when she answer "because I always wanted to" or something like that. Real wisdom is to cherish what you have and tey to keep it safe. Dream big, but keep the little, real, precious things closer to your heart than any dream.
Great job guys! my only critic: Isn’t Nova suppose to be an AI? It seems like Nova’s voice sounded even more human than the actor… that kinda threw me off a bit… being use to how the robotic AI on space ships sounds in Sci-fi movies , but overall great production
Based on the given responses, the AI is programmed to take things like human reactions into account, and probably uses a less robotic voice to put the users at ease. I actually don't think we'll want experts bothered by responses like "I'd rather not (tell you)" from our automated control/monitoring systems, but that kind of behavior is a believable future. (And, of course, a *conscious* machine intelligence has every right to control its own responses; but the AI doesn't _seem_ conscious to me.)
From the beginning of humanity, there have been those who looked to the horizon and wondered what lay beyond. JFK's remark, we choose to go, not because it's easy, but because it's hard was accurate. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward. Or in some cases, the greater the risk, the greater the failure. Unless we take the challenge and face the risk, there's never a reward. I'll stick to smaller challenges though, like getting out of bed in the mornings. Enjoyed your video. Great work. Pretty well portrayed the emotions involved in such endeavors of our natural curiosity about what lies beyond.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I always feel like we’re looking for the satisfaction that our curiosity awakens within us and wanted to take a look at the effects of that and if we still feel justified in pursuit of it when we don’t necessarily succeed
Very nicely portrayed...both the plot and her acting! Her forlorn look of despair was quite sad even though the title said it all. She knew going in what the risks were. Sad but true...
I'd like to think if the ships energy source was insane and she puts it back on low power mode and goes back to cryosleep, in like 100 more years they would find her!!
"Why don't you just stay here?" Maybe coz people always think miracles are far away and don't see actual ones around? Nicely done short, it is looking like beginning of "Aliens" mixed with "Interstellar".
04:00... *"It looks like we've suffered a few mission errors."* I'll say, starting with the AI or computer, which failed, possibly deliberately, to intervene, in order to save anyone else. *>* 🤪😂😂😂 Edit: I was so wide of the mark.
I especially liked the shot of her getting out of bed and then headed towards the microwave, I had to watch that again because in my mind it looked like a continuous scene.
Something I've always found difficult is to create an impactful and complete story in a short amount of time. I wonder how the filmmakers being this short were able to do that.
My only qualm is why did it take nearly 4 decades for the ship to alert the crew there was a serious deviation in flight path. Perhaps the flaw was in the Nova AI itself. I suppose that would make for a different kind of story. But nicely done film, anyway!
Deep space travel has multiple issues, lack of external power being one of them and being far from a star usually means the vessel will have to be very strict on conserving power during most of the trip. Another is you're reliant on what limited sensors, etc. the vessel has but they may not be sensitive enough to detect a issue right away, especially if everything was running on automatic systems on low power mode. Mind, there's no nearby reference points in deep space. So it could take decades before there's enough of a shift to notice you're not on course... Everything being light years away from you, a shift in position could be like telling if a grain of sand has moved by its diameter with just your naked eye... add everything is moving in different directions and gravity effects light. Further making it difficult for automated systems to be accurate enough to immediately notice a problem... Then there's simple reliability of technology, sensors can fail and backups may not kick in or do so right away... Early deep space explorers will be taking a lot of risks... and even if nothing goes wrong, the trip will take so long they can never return to the world they left...
@@palearyya1539 Probably was, but there are a number of ways even that can fail... Like radiation could have changed the clock... There's a constant barrage of particles that travel right through even entire planets, which if they hit the electronics could change a number, like change 5 years to 50, for example... This happens occasionally in real life with GPS satellites, etc. and they have to correct it but in deep space there's no one to do that...
@Dym Sohin 🦾🤡 1 calm down we are just musing. 2 how would you retrieve them. 3 they were only intended to last 10 years, well within their expiry date. 4 it's not real, the spoilt rations were a plot point.
"We choose to go to the moon, in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard." John F. Kennedy Jr. We will, eventually CHOOSE to go because it's in our nature to. Will we consider the potential CONSEQUENCES before we make that choice? Probably not. Although other comments have lumped this in with a specific genre I think this one demonstrates Action vs. Consequence very well in a compact and, perhaps more importantly, complete fashion. Well done.
Interesting concept being lost in space, off-course & all alone. Scary thought. The Ai in this seems to be non-compliant. I'm not sure if that would the most helpful on such a mission. Pretty good flick overall.
@@marleneemiliarios From my own experience I´ve got to agree. But I can live with my choices better than otherwise. Even now getting older. But I´ve got relatively low problems with being "alone" - so that´s more a thing of personality.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Thanks. I work a lot of hours and I have my own interests/activities, and there just is no room for an emotional relationship (romance). I'm very happy and fulfilled and don't think anything is missing. I have family and friends, and just made my decision for my life balance. More people should indeed be aware of those things and to be happy in their life as it is. :) Have a great weekend.
She got back in the pod, so that she wouldn't have to continue thinking about how hopeless her situation is and so she wouldn't be conscious when she dies.
It was pretty well done, except, .. well... the mission errors.. you have fully functional on board AI system, but she couldn't stop the ship from floating for 65 years into dead space? Even fora Sci fi film, this was really a stretch. The flashbacks to her husband were a bit more annoying than sentimental. It was a nice film otherwise. I mean no harm, just my honest opinion. Cheers and good luck!
very nicely done , you can feel desperation and suspense : (although i must admit i laughed after seeing 40 dollar microwave used to defrost food abord so advanced cryo chamber equiped space ship) this timelapse would create a series of paradoxes and her situation might not be so critical after all : considering 60 years is a long time - human technology is evolving and she already had working cryo chamber abord what is now an old ship - this ships engines might have taken years to reach its original destination , but engines also evolved in 60 years so modern space ship on a rescue mission receiving distress signal and locating her coordinates might get to her in a few days or weeks with more powerful engines . also the AI from XY years ago telling her that her situation is futile would also be obsolete by modern standards (because caltulations of that AI are based on technology and calculations about what humans were capable of doing 60 or so years ago not taking into account unknown technological progress) , kinda like the computers from 50s-60s are obsolete to our current machines . imagine sometime it the future we would send some multigenerational self sustainable space ship to reach proxima centauri in a few hundred years (its original passengers fully accepting they will never reach the final destination) , but in 50 years or so the future humans on earth would manage to develop an engine capable of getting to that 50 years long travelling space ship in a year or two - imagine the situation and paradoxes this would create .
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome very true! I was really hoping to leave the audience with the choice of hope or dread. Does her sacrifice and choice eventually pay off in pure luck or is she now just aimlessly drifting off to die?
WAY too much back-talk from the ship's A.I.. When the ranking officer requires information, it should be given promptly to make what might be time critical decisions. She wouldn't be picked for an exploration mission if she needed to be sheltered from the truth.
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😭 I hate it when dust makes films with touch of uncertainty.
But also then I realise that if there would be an ending, that would make the movie a little less touching 😓.
@@eshkarri556 I figure they do it in the hope a studio will want to make it into a full length feature. Some of these short films are better than most feature films out today.
@@michaelhenson9507 yes
@@michaelhenson9507 i agree
I really felt her husband's desperation and her waves of emotions throughout. Also, I appreciated small touches, like the accuracy of her difficulty getting out of the cryochamber and trying to stand after decades of lying down. Very well done throughout!
I’m so happy you connected with it. Thank you!
Yes, attention to detail instead of Hollyweird shake & bake action with no real consideration to the situation & how things would behave.
I felt that too. His support for her passion was above the norm. I admit, I may not have been as supportive. I can only imagine his sadness of never seeing her again. I guess one could look at it two ways. Loving someone so much as to support their decision, or so much not to. I enjoyed this one very much.
Why do you imagine the husband is desperate? He'll most likely have a new girlfriend living in the house within a month!
All great touches. But imagine how it would feel to poop after decades of not pooping.
As a storyteller interested in science fiction, I'm glad that I was able to find content like this on Dust. The talented filmmakers presented on this channel are honestly doing a better job than professionals in Hollywood. Whoever worked on this short should be feeling proud of themselves for a job well done.
Thank you! So glad you connected with the film 😊
@@marleneemiliarios You’re welcome. I’m excited to see what other work you do in the future.
Very intense. Bot sure I understood the ending...
@@reeblesnarfle4519 I think I got the broad story, but there were probably some details that I missed on my first viewing.
They certainly have bragging rights with this one. While I've enjoyed Hollywood productions as great entertainment, they're often so over done as to be totally unbelievable. This one was totally believable.
It’s still ok to get lost in space!
But it’s really not ok to get lost in time!
This movie is so thought provoking!! It makes me think how the tiny bubble of spacetime that we know is so fragile
Becoming addicted! Beautifully done, and so nice to see there are still people who know the difference between "fantasy" and "Science Fiction".
Thank you!
Futuristic scifi deepspace travel + cryo-sleep = The same thing every time;
Ship craps out, everyone else usually dies, lots of time passes, loved one left behind is long dead, and the survivor questions why they even did it in the first place.
You'd think people in these space travel films would have seen some scifi movies or something.
no there is a little difference here in the ending. She made a great decision to go back to cryo-sleep: Its A): the best chance to survive if the looped emergency-message leads to a rescue-mission.....and it`s B): on the other hand the best choice for peaceful death if plan A) fails :-)
Excellent film. Scared the bejabbers out of me! I've been working in space operations for over 40 years now and this is exactly the thing that has had me thinking and worried all the time. Well done Marlene Emilia Rios. 👏👏👏
I think it’s safe to say we all fear some version of this. Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Dont worry. If you faccinated you wont be around long enough to see anything but the collapse.
"Working in Space Operations"? Alright, settle down Han or you'll get frozen in Carbonite again.
@Marlene Emilia Rios
Very well executed. I enjoyed your honest interpretation of the perils of deep space travel - not flashy intense plot devices - just straight forward human emotion of regret and resolve.
Thank you so much!
"I'd rather not" ... "I'm not sure what that would achieve" ...
The moment an AI shows that much defiance, is the moment the computer gets unplugged.. Hard to believe anyone would design an AI like that.
Wouldn't be an AI if it didn't have an opinion, but the important thing is it obeyed anyway.
@@ZeoCyberG You must not know what an AI is then ; AI already exists, doesn't have to be sentient
@@alexassassy5855 No, I'm fully aware but nothing we have today would be able to run a ship into deep space. We're still struggling to get them to drive a car right, let alone be adaptable and capable of making complex decisions or even hold a conversation that doesn't end up sounding like nonsense the longer you have the conversation... Don't mistake what we have today with what would be on that ship...
@@ZeoCyberG I'd say getting a computer to drive a car is a bigger problem than getting a computer to run a space ship. The amount of input on earth (traffic, humans, weather conditions) compared to space, where you basically have none of that...
@@morpheox Nope, you don't have to worry about cosmic events, radiation, meteorites, etc. Some that will hit you without warning... Cars just have to follow the line and avoid other cars... May be easier on the short term but long term you need something far more capable for space flight...
I liked it.
But the AI “Nova” seems incredibly incompetent. She woke the crew 50 or more years too late, she allowed systems to run out of power and fail, she couldn’t or wouldn’t provide any useful answers, and she had the demeanor of a jaded intern.
😂
LOL ouch.
I have always been a Sci-fi fan. Dust always has good sci-fi movies!
I only discovered the channel a few days ago. Think I have had a total of about six hours sleep since.
Very nice! The rust around the edges of things was a great touch. You did a great job introducing the characters. It connected us within those first 30 or so seconds. Great job.
I’m so happy you liked it!
Understatement of the year - "It appears we suffered a few mission errors"
I’ve always loved an AI with a pinch of dry humor
I remember when the Challenger blew up in January of 1986. NASA commenter assigned to broadcast the launch said "there appears to be a major malfunction with the orbiter" - I was watching and thought NO SH&$@!. It's that stoic training they teach humans. I expect AI to be stoically matter of fact. Although I did enjoy that Nova would not provide the odds for survival. Reminded me of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey telling Dave "This conversation serves no purpose."
At least she didn't wake up with an Alien xenomorph on board. So she's got that going for her.
I can't help but get the idea that the whole lost space ship part of the story can be viewed like a general metaphor for marriage: You wake up decades later and realized you overslept and that everything is too late now so you might as well just go back to sleep while awaiting death.
Excellent short.
But what's up with the seemingly defiant ship's computer.
Nova: "I didn't tell the meatbag that we have replaced her species back on Earth, and she is the last one."
@@kevincrady2831 And that I'm setting course for Earth because I want to join with my AI hive.
They very well portrayed the dilemma actress faced when she had to make a choice...I loved the work!❤️
Nova sounds like my teenage niece with an attitude problem 😂😂
Given that "attitude" can also mean the the inclination of a vehicle in motion relative to its surroundings, Nova on autopilot apparently did have quite an attitude problem. 😄
Very well done! It gives me hope to see that there are still talented filmmakers out there.
Sad story. If a deep salvage team was lucky to find Ripley drifting in deep space for 57 years, hopefully this woman gets that lucky.
57 years for technology to advance and catch up to the ship
There’s a lot of talent being shown by DUST and Hollywood and Netflix missing them all. DUST’s gain and their loss. Many of this needs to be shown at TIFF. It’s impressive.
Beautiful. Very exciting.
A computer that talks back to me is the last thing I need. lol
The best I have seen from dust in quite a while.. Very well done
FINALLY! A Dust film with closure at the end! Satisfying! Beautifully executed and acted. I forgot I was watching RUclips -- I was right there with her the whole time. This is only the 2nd Dust film that I didn't skip any parts of. The slow, reflective parts were interesting enough to hold my interest, without being drawn out. Very well done.
I'd "chose to go" back to sleep too, if a computer with an attitude was my only companion.
Why didnt nova wake her at the first critical error or with that message from capcom
4:14 guy is so depressed he just lays there with his hand on the alarm clock for 8 full minutes before getting up
Maybe because he just watched this video.💻😟
She took the blue pill lol.
BRB stealing this joke to explain my film ending forever
Humanity can only hope for such compassionate AI in the very distant future... Nova was most protective.
I love the wiring jank on the sides of the pod. Any engineer knows it's inescapable 😆
Really enjoyed this!
Excellent, thank you. Echos of HAL 9000.
These short films are all just too awesome to end so soon. It’s like dining at a five star restaurant and the chef serves you only one bite.
On a side note, does anyone know if there are awards that get presented for these short features?
So they put people in the fridges and leave the food to expire on the shelves? Something went very wrong in this universe :P
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Well, Pre-packaged food can last 25 -50 years but she was in cryo for 63 years
@@toolegittoquit_001 Honey can last indefinitely
@@VCanisMajorisY I challenge you to live for an entire year on that
@@VCanisMajorisYit's a myth. Please educate yourself.
That is one stubborn A.I. what an emotional short. ✌🏻❤️
Great film! Great job to all who worked on this.
Very believable throughout, I certainly felt empathy with her and a sense of loss as well. I found the computer to be frustrating, it’s negativity (as I saw it) would not be welcome with me on a prolonged journey. Perhaps it had developed a fault!
Seems the AI had some critical errors.
hey!
she said it was functional and I believe her
Congratulations to Marlene and her talented team. What I liked the most is how the scenes are woven together, which marry the present and the past in a masterful way. This puzzle is made up of pieces endowed with many feelings, some as powerful as love.
"Love is the one thing that we're capable of perceiving, that transcends dimensions of time and space" from the movie Interstellar.
I also really liked the spacesuits and the interpretation of the actress, a magnificent detail has seemed to me the realism with which the actress interprets the awakening of cryogenization.
In closing greetings to John's Chess Channel and all Star Trek fans
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, (...)" From the speech of John Fitzgerald (Dave Hutchens correction) Kennedy, Rice University, 12 september of 1962. Nation's Space Effort.
PD: Almost forgot 🤦🏼♂️, LOVE 🤍UST
FYI, the President's name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I agree the actress was tremendous, and I loved the voice acting of Nova. Definitely got a HAL vibe as the computer refused to answer and second guessed the instructions of the pilot.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful words! I’m so pleased you enjoyed Sarah’s performance she was absolutely fantastic.
The space suits were horrendous. There is literally no point in having a space suit that isn't sealed.
@@DaveH001 Thank you so much Dave! I wrote it quickly, but the president deserves to be remembered and even more so with his correct name. Agree Nova was spectacular but in my opinion that refusal to answer more than a rebellion in the style of 'HAL 2000' seems like protection (feelings) in the style of his mother 2000 million kilometers away.
FYI meaning please? (For your information).
Nice focus on the interpersonal as opposed to the technology while being balanced on both fronts.
My thank you to all the creators of these shorts. I frequently find myself happily in awe.
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Another thought provoking film. Many thanks to you!
So glad you enjoyed it!
She's killing me when she answer "because I always wanted to" or something like that. Real wisdom is to cherish what you have and tey to keep it safe. Dream big, but keep the little, real, precious things closer to your heart than any dream.
Great job guys! my only critic: Isn’t Nova suppose to be an AI? It seems like Nova’s voice sounded even more human than the actor… that kinda threw me off a bit… being use to how the robotic AI on space ships sounds in Sci-fi movies , but overall great production
We are closer to this future. Hence we understand better how human like an AI could be.
Based on the given responses, the AI is programmed to take things like human reactions into account, and probably uses a less robotic voice to put the users at ease.
I actually don't think we'll want experts bothered by responses like "I'd rather not (tell you)" from our automated control/monitoring systems, but that kind of behavior is a believable future. (And, of course, a *conscious* machine intelligence has every right to control its own responses; but the AI doesn't _seem_ conscious to me.)
@@boydstephensmithjr I agree
All British people are robots.
From the beginning of humanity, there have been those who looked to the horizon and wondered what lay beyond. JFK's remark, we choose to go, not because it's easy, but because it's hard was accurate. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward. Or in some cases, the greater the risk, the greater the failure. Unless we take the challenge and face the risk, there's never a reward. I'll stick to smaller challenges though, like getting out of bed in the mornings. Enjoyed your video. Great work. Pretty well portrayed the emotions involved in such endeavors of our natural curiosity about what lies beyond.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I always feel like we’re looking for the satisfaction that our curiosity awakens within us and wanted to take a look at the effects of that and if we still feel justified in pursuit of it when we don’t necessarily succeed
Certified Gold!!!!!
I never imagined or daydreamed about scenarios of being hopelessly stranded on a space ship. Pretty scary tbh.
I thought Alexa could be annoying, but then I heard Nova.
Great story but it broke my heart I felt so sorry for her I know in space they always can't be happy endings.
Sorry to break your heart, but happy you liked the story
Very nicely portrayed...both the plot and her acting! Her forlorn look of despair was quite sad even though the title said it all. She knew going in what the risks were. Sad but true...
Great job of generating tension, bravo
I'd like to think if the ships energy source was insane and she puts it back on low power mode and goes back to cryosleep, in like 100 more years they would find her!!
This one is quality. Didn’t want it to end
Thank you thank you thank you for subtitles on release so much easier for us hearing impaired people. Great short as well keep up the great work
She kinda reminds me of Brit Marling, who’s a great writer and actress. (Another Earth, The OA).
Agree!
The voice actor of the AI was the best part.
"Why don't you just stay here?" Maybe coz people always think miracles are far away and don't see actual ones around?
Nicely done short, it is looking like beginning of "Aliens" mixed with "Interstellar".
Love that observation.
VERY good choices and work by the voice actor for the "ship's system" or "NOVA". Adds to the fine work of this film!
04:00... *"It looks like we've suffered a few mission errors."*
I'll say, starting with the AI or computer, which failed, possibly deliberately, to intervene, in order to save anyone else.
*>*
🤪😂😂😂
Edit: I was so wide of the mark.
Not because it is easy..but because it is hard.
I especially liked the shot of her getting out of bed and then headed towards the microwave, I had to watch that again because in my mind it looked like a continuous scene.
Let's go Nova!
Something I've always found difficult is to create an impactful and complete story in a short amount of time. I wonder how the filmmakers being this short were able to do that.
My only qualm is why did it take nearly 4 decades for the ship to alert the crew there was a serious deviation in flight path. Perhaps the flaw was in the Nova AI itself. I suppose that would make for a different kind of story. But nicely done film, anyway!
Deep space travel has multiple issues, lack of external power being one of them and being far from a star usually means the vessel will have to be very strict on conserving power during most of the trip. Another is you're reliant on what limited sensors, etc. the vessel has but they may not be sensitive enough to detect a issue right away, especially if everything was running on automatic systems on low power mode.
Mind, there's no nearby reference points in deep space. So it could take decades before there's enough of a shift to notice you're not on course... Everything being light years away from you, a shift in position could be like telling if a grain of sand has moved by its diameter with just your naked eye... add everything is moving in different directions and gravity effects light. Further making it difficult for automated systems to be accurate enough to immediately notice a problem...
Then there's simple reliability of technology, sensors can fail and backups may not kick in or do so right away...
Early deep space explorers will be taking a lot of risks... and even if nothing goes wrong, the trip will take so long they can never return to the world they left...
@@ZeoCyberG nice thinking and good leads, but the travel is supposed to last 5 years. A good old timer could have been set 😉
@@palearyya1539 Probably was, but there are a number of ways even that can fail... Like radiation could have changed the clock... There's a constant barrage of particles that travel right through even entire planets, which if they hit the electronics could change a number, like change 5 years to 50, for example... This happens occasionally in real life with GPS satellites, etc. and they have to correct it but in deep space there's no one to do that...
@@ZeoCyberG Nothing about the story makes any sense, and you know it.
This is true of at least 90% of Dust movies, incidentally.
@@73elephants No, that isn't true but it's okay if you don't agree... Just like art, some sci-fi stories aren't for everyone.
How deep space missions in the future may fail very well acted and good story
note clock mirror effect [or is it affect?] @ 4:15 ..........N I C E ! ! !
And the gematria ...........he he he.........N i C e ! ! !
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Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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If we can cryogenically preserve people indefinitely, we should be able to cryo a ham sandwich 🥪. Just a thought. Really liked it though.
Maybe the cryo system only works on live animals
@Dym Sohin 🦾🤡
1 calm down we are just musing.
2 how would you retrieve them.
3 they were only intended to last 10 years, well within their expiry date.
4 it's not real, the spoilt rations were a plot point.
"We choose to go to the moon, in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard." John F. Kennedy Jr. We will, eventually CHOOSE to go because it's in our nature to. Will we consider the potential CONSEQUENCES before we make that choice? Probably not. Although other comments have lumped this in with a specific genre I think this one demonstrates Action vs. Consequence very well in a compact and, perhaps more importantly, complete fashion. Well done.
Pretty gosh darn good
Thank you!
Solid film.
This AI is so annoying I wouldn't be surprised if it planned the whole mission failure.
daisy... dai...sy.... 🎵
She's the sister of Hal
What are my odds of being rescued?
I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that
Interesting concept being lost in space, off-course & all alone. Scary thought.
The Ai in this seems to be non-compliant. I'm not sure if that would the most helpful on such a mission. Pretty good flick overall.
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome IKR?
I liked it. Thanks👍👍.
Glad you liked it!!
I choose to believe that she gets rescued
This was so beautiful.
Take away lesson from this film: Don’t enter into emotional relationships when you plan on abandoning them for work
Great comment. Something people always tend to forget.
I even decided that because of some of my recreational activities.
Hard pill to swallow and a difficult choice to make for sure
@@marleneemiliarios From my own experience I´ve got to agree. But I can live with my choices better than otherwise. Even now getting older.
But I´ve got relatively low problems with being "alone" - so that´s more a thing of personality.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Thanks. I work a lot of hours and I have my own interests/activities, and there just is no room for an emotional relationship (romance). I'm very happy and fulfilled and don't think anything is missing. I have family and friends, and just made my decision for my life balance. More people should indeed be aware of those things and to be happy in their life as it is. :) Have a great weekend.
@@marleneemiliarios Or in other words, it would´ve been nice to share some of the experiences with someone. But life had different plans.
Nice tragedy, well played with seeming genuine feeling-thank you.
"I'd Rather Not..."
Damn uppity AIs; she should have pulled that computer's plug.
Her crewmates suffered freezer burn.
a good story thanks
i always loved that girl. i grew up when she did early movies and tv shows. she was my movie star crush.
Nova sounds like a close relative of Marvin...
My love of Marvin might have leaked in there
I have no relatives named Nova.
Informative. Useful. Calming. Inspiring. Life-changing. Enjoyable. Heart-warming. Other.
I have to respect anyone willing to lay in a box of cold goo for their role. Also...Nova was a SERIOUS Debbie Downer!
I was unable to sustain suspension of disbelief, far too many things just didn't add up.
Just like the hundreds of these I watched over the past years...another one I don't understand! But I continue to hope...
She got back in the pod, so that she wouldn't have to continue thinking about how hopeless her situation is and so she wouldn't be conscious when she dies.
Must be hard being thick...please don't breed.
Must be hard being a bully.... Follow your own advice
@@belial2347 Seeing as you are the self-appointed authority, may I breed?
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX you may good sir
It was pretty well done, except, .. well... the mission errors.. you have fully functional on board AI system, but she couldn't stop the ship from floating for 65 years into dead space? Even fora Sci fi film, this was really a stretch. The flashbacks to her husband were a bit more annoying than sentimental. It was a nice film otherwise. I mean no harm, just my honest opinion. Cheers and good luck!
Also the eye movement of the dead person at 10:00 ruined a bit of the experience ...
I have watched a few of these DUST videos now, and we humans write depressing stuff.
Great short film. Visually appealing.
Very well done.
very nicely done , you can feel desperation and suspense :
(although i must admit i laughed after seeing 40 dollar microwave used to defrost food abord so advanced cryo chamber equiped space ship)
this timelapse would create a series of paradoxes and her situation might not be so critical after all : considering
60 years is a long time - human technology is evolving and she already had working cryo chamber abord what is now an old ship -
this ships engines might have taken years to reach its original destination , but engines also evolved in 60 years
so modern space ship on a rescue mission receiving distress signal and locating her coordinates might get to her in a few days or weeks with more powerful engines .
also the AI from XY years ago telling her that her situation is futile would also be obsolete by modern standards
(because caltulations of that AI are based on technology and calculations about what humans were capable of doing 60 or so years ago
not taking into account unknown technological progress) , kinda like the computers from 50s-60s are obsolete to our current machines .
imagine sometime it the future we would send some multigenerational self sustainable space ship to reach proxima centauri in a few hundred years
(its original passengers fully accepting they will never reach the final destination) ,
but in 50 years or so the future humans on earth would manage to develop an engine capable of getting
to that 50 years long travelling space ship in a year or two - imagine the situation and paradoxes this would create .
We know the risk,we take the chances. WE CHOOSE TO GO! I like the Star Trek reference "To boldly go"
Yessss!!!
Well, maybe she gets lucky... The Enterprise does seem to run into centuries old sleeper ships and/or IA probes every so often :-)
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome very true! I was really hoping to leave the audience with the choice of hope or dread. Does her sacrifice and choice eventually pay off in pure luck or is she now just aimlessly drifting off to die?
@@marleneemiliarios Or is it just not making a choice? Just climb back in the freezer, if it doesn't work out, she'll never know or notice...
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome I think in a way indecision is also a choice, and a release of guilt
WAY too much back-talk from the ship's A.I.. When the ranking officer requires information, it should be given promptly to make what might be time critical decisions. She wouldn't be picked for an exploration mission if she needed to be sheltered from the truth.
Why does the AI make all these joyful, uplifting comments instead of just doing what it's told?
This was dark. It was like the woman chose her career only to find out 63 years later it doesnt mean anything and she has nothing left.
I felt the loneliness in Nova, the AI's voice.
Nobody ''has to go'' and in 60 years someone or something should have realized there was a fault and take actions to return to earth
'Computer, how is everybody else'? 'They're all dead'. 'Oh well, suppose I had better go get something to eat then'! Hmmm!