Weird right? It starts with a hole in the wall, then a mug of boiling water, a vacuum tube and finally, her own body. O, a 14-minute body horror film, is about a woman who can’t stop sticking her hand in o-shaped places. Still, it’s evident that a lot of tedious work went into pulling it off. The 3D animations have a bizarre, nostalgic kind of charm like the clips you’d see after bowling a strike at the alley. This fever-dream-like film features a gameshow host who can’t seem to let go of his heyday in the lights, camera and action. Rochester Institute of Technology graduates Siobhan Gannon and Eryk White submitted their capstone project, Limelight, to Anomaly. UPYA, on the other hand, was a reflective glimpse into what life could’ve been like for a character who takes his own life.Įach short featured something special and unsettling, but all the while entertaining. The opening short, Welcome, revived a generations-old fear of mannequins coming to life-a short and sweet nod to The Twilight Zone and Doctor Who. Day three of Rochester’s Anomaly Genre Film Festival kicked off with “Surreal and Spooky Saturday Shorts,” a back-to-back screening of twelve 3-20-minute films of varying budget sizes, experience levels and countries of origin. The expressions of urgency made her character’s devotion to scientific discovery and passion for space not just believable but contagious.Ī sure sign of a good short film is its ability to get to the point without rushing or dragging on. When she gets a phone call that her father is dying in the hospital, she is forced to decide what’s more important -being there for her family or achieving what no other scientist has done before.Īmongst the chaos of flashing computer lights, blaring alarms and interrupting calls from Alex’s boss, Trepat’s grasp on her character in each scene was impressive and never boring. While a treacherous thunderstorm wreaks havoc on the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) facility building, Alex is still on the clock, working all by herself on this once-in-a-lifetime discovery. Yet, it’s an intergalactic existential dilemma that doesn’t even have to leave the Earth, let alone a single room.įilmed in one location, The Antares Paradox follows astrophysicist Alexandra Baeza (Andrea Trepat) on an adamant quest to confirm extraterrestrial life. It encapsulates the stressful intensity and bittersweet emotions of the sacrifices required to balance work and life priorities. Described as a “soulful sci-fi” in search of a species in the stars, Luis Tinoco’s outstanding directorial debut, The Antares Paradox (La paradoja de Antares), does so much with so little.
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