DUST 2017

How much should we let technology control? Attack drones stop listening to commands and begin targeting all humans.

Miles of separation cannot break their bond. Lovers face their unexpected separation.

Upon entering an omniscient technological device known as “The Chamber,” a man is presented with multiple projections of himself - from his past memories, to his own digital avatars, and beyond..

In the year 2084, the fate of mankind will rest in the hands of a total moron.

A woman's date takes a strange turn when the man she's been seeing reveals his strange backstory.

An advanced data courier called Sync delivers a dangerous package.

When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.

A Woman arrives on a barren highway where a mysterious Man waits, as he always has. He has things to offer, and she has things to trade, but what to choose?

When two universes collide and create exact duplicates of both people and inanimate objects on a single version of Earth, a hopeless romantic finds himself able to win the heart of his dream girl's double.

Four teens travel into a desolate and decrepit urban wasteland brought forth by the very being they wish to find, dead or alive.

In a world sputtering under ecological ruin and self imposed eugenics one couple search for some hope in their lives.

It's a fight against religion and society for a metal man trying to save his family.

For a curious young boy, The War of the Worlds is just the beginning.

Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has arrived in the Universe through the 'Hibernation' program. But something happens between him and his instructor Claire, and decisions that seemed unbreakable begin to crack. The countdown has begun.

An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of Cornwall... but this time they find out they're not so isolated after all.

In a dystopian future where the world has devolved into a pre-industrial state, the Purists rule supreme. The Purists blame technology for all the world’s past ills, and have deemed it to be inherently sinful. A handful of Companions, human-like artificial intelligence, have managed to make it through the apocalypse. They survive the only way they can –by hiding in plain sight.

Haunted by the memory of his girlfriend, Ben becomes obsessed with reliving their best moments together through the company, AGAIN™.

A short film set in the near future, where augmented reality has become so ubiquitous that the line between the real and virtual worlds have become blurred. When a new, dangerous technology is created that can manipulate the perception of this brave new world, who will exploit it? Who will monetize it? Who will become twisted by it?

A millennial has to deal with the unexpected consequences of swiping himself on a dating app.

An imaginary friend is forced to consider retirement when his creator starts to grow up.

A self-aware robot seeks out love and meaning with horrifying results.

In a post nuclear era where owning books is a felony and the intellectual community is persecuted, a group of scientists is trying in vain to find a way to save the world. A Professor's assistant will be called upon to make the most difficult decision of his life.

Based on the DARK HORSE comic, NUMBER 13, a young cybernetic amnesiac, wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland searching for a father he can’t remember.

Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% love match is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?

"Divisor" shows the unexpected consequence as a result of mind shifting. Cyberpunk and virtual reality have shaped the esthetics of this short film.

10 years after leaving a war his father started, Quinn and Amp live in the slums selling illegal custom-tech just to afford the batteries that keep Amp alive.

Harry, a troubled young boy with a vivid imagination wants to fight the forces of evil like his television hero, the Star Ship Captain. When he meets the athletic but slightly awkward Jordan, the two boys set a plan in motion to defeat the forces of evil and save the day. Set in Melbourne in the late 1970‘s, this is the story of a suburban Space Captain, his Lieutenant, the Rocket they built and the heroes they become.

The story of an AI unit who is anything but artificial.

A short film about falling in love... with a terrorist.

A lone astronaut on an endurance mission is forced to cope with an intrusive force which threatens to derail the operation.

In a world where time travel spreads as a virus, a fugitive uses 1-5 second time jumps to escape a police raid.

With the help of her drones, a young woman faces the horrors outside in a search for a paradise she may never find.

A sci-fi thriller about a woman who can never get over the child she lost.

What would you sacrifice to save the world? In Rob McLellan's short "Always the Sun" one woman must take on this devastating responsibility.

Some prefer beer... Some prefer blood.

A man (Dante Basco) returns to the scene of a terrible crime where he lost everything, determined to face his demons and rewrite a little bit of history.

Ever since there has been people, there has been explorers.

Deep underground, a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to cope with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve...

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

Set in a dystopian future where the world is dying from a crippling disease, a mysterious figure visits an illegal drug den in the hope of sourcing a rumored cure, but unwittingly gets caught up in a robbery that could threaten his chances of making it back out alive...

Two Worlds is a story about two opposites coming together out of necessity and finding hope at the end of the world.

A young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller's lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico.

An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity.

Biopunk is set in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human.

In a dystopian world a young woman gets a second chance to avenge her and her family’s death and fight against the governments military death squads.

A lonely woman falls for an avatar in an augmented reality program and it completely upends her life.

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear or the effect of epiphany.