Outside

Long after the end of the world, five strangers sharing an abandoned desert motel are forced to decide between love and survival.

While Joel was resting, a loud bang invades his room. Out of breath, he is stunned by the figure that appears at his door: himself. Without understanding what just happened, without knowing who that person is, they must cooperate together before time runs out.

“Surplus Intelligence” is a film that was written by Artificial Intelligence, simulated on a game engine, and directed by Miao Ying. Using Machine Learning Text Generation Neural Networks and Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the artist trained the AI to study different styles of writing, including behavioral psychologist, B. F. Skinner’s utopia novel, “Walden Two"; the most popular Chinese online novel style “ 霸道总裁体 ”/ soft-core sadomasochistic Cinderella story depicting a domineering boss; opposing ideological theories; and bible stories.

Bruna is a biologist who studies insects. In 2020, during a pandemic, she faces a creative block to continue her current research. After talking to her advisor, Dr. Jaime, Bruna is pressured to look for new stimuli to write. After a few attempts, the young scientist ends up transforming in an irreversible way.

Tells the story, through surrealist and oniric images, of an alien invasion that feeds on spanish children.

An ambitious Engineer recollects the memories of his life which led to humanity's most crucial space mission ever.

Wolfman instantly appears from behind some trees where he is reputedly abused by armed Japanese army tanks, he allegedly flees and later battles Baragon at a burning construction site.

When Brian's graduate thesis on Time Travel costs him the love of his life, he forces himself to choose the best way to live out the rest of his days.

A reclusive Black celebrity is persuaded to open up to a mysterious woman stalking him with an uncommon secret of her own.

An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to determine why they lost contact.

Ice Spider is a collaboration between Saimaiyu Akesuk (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) and Cheryl Rondeau (Toronto, Canada). Inspired by Akesuk’s iconic drawing entitled Red Spider (2014), this experimental short employs the technique of stop-motion animation while making reference to the actual behaviour of the Arctic Wolf Spider, a genus of arachnid common across the North. Climate change has resulted in larger populations and increased predatory tendencies of this carnivorous and cannibalistic spider. This sci-fi influenced short animates the growing discourse around the ecological, political and cultural future of Canada’s Arctic. Background imagery was shot on location in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.