Homemade Sci-Fi

Unremembered: A physics mystery

Made on a truly DIY budget around $30,000, Unremembered explores causality and physics anomalies in a non-linear structure to tell the story of a man with no past revisiting events to repair his life.

Read on for an exclusive interview with Portland based director Greg Kerr.

Similo: Artificial love amidst the Antarctic melt

Meet Similo, an impressive-looking short film that we can't wait to see finished. According to their Kickstarter page:

SIMILO is a science fiction love story set in the year 2064. The polar ice caps have melted. The world struggles to survive drought and poverty. But those few who live in the new cities in the arctic can live a happy life. At least, that´s what they want to believe.

What is a Similo? Similo: An artificial person designed to be the perfect lover. Similo comes from the word Simulating.

Based on a teaser film by Zacharias and Macgregor, Similo has reached its funding goal (thanks to donations via Kickstarter) and the filmmakers are now in the tedious process of putting together the visual effects shots for the short film.

It looks gorgeous and atmospheric. Keep your eyes open for this one on the festival circuit.

HENRI 2.0 - Robot existentialism in space

Currently still in production (according to their Kickstarter page):

Set thousands of years in the future, a derelict spacecraft powered by a human brain [named HENRI] floats aimlessly in the outer reaches of space. Yearning for freedom and yet unable to move, HENRI devises a plan to build himself a mechanical body from parts of the ship.

Director Eli Sasich was kind enough to give us an exclusive interview about the film.