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  • @zethraelofteldrassil3149
    @zethraelofteldrassil3149 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I could listen to the man teaching the boy all night. He is a carrier of knowledge passed through the oral tradition, as done for tens of thousands of years, to the child, who will teach others. Lovely video

  • @daveburklund2295
    @daveburklund2295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Forest, two characters, two poles in the ground. And with just that we get an interesting interrogation of what humanity is, what living is.Well done.

  • @fjdarling
    @fjdarling ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Not just for entertainment but to educate ideas and morals. That's what I like about this video. Good job. This one's a keeper.

    • @scottmcshannon6821
      @scottmcshannon6821 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      of course for this to work 95+% of humans need to disappear.

  • @blaiseneyroud7222
    @blaiseneyroud7222 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Poetry. This could be a radio broadcast. Near the perfection !

  • @ArtisticlyAlexis
    @ArtisticlyAlexis ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This is the inspiration I needed to hear! The world is getting darker, so we need to always be aiming for a better world, to remember our humanity and what's important.

    • @markmunroe-hz8rf
      @markmunroe-hz8rf ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately, we have chosen to throw away our humanity for decadence and convenience.

    • @mookinbabysealfurmittens
      @mookinbabysealfurmittens ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@markmunroe-hz8rfThis is true, but not of every last individual. And we can change. We can learn, we can grow, we can _choose_ ...and I just hope that there's enough folks left who can see what's happening and still have hope. And action. You can make a difference. Join a union, or a local or community group, or start one. Our voices can be heard. I hope.

    • @mookinbabysealfurmittens
      @mookinbabysealfurmittens ปีที่แล้ว

      And OP, +1. I feel inspired as well. I aim to do something with it. As I noted, it starts with one's own community. I thought I was surrounded by fash, but I found others out here. We need to harness hope to fuel us.

    • @markmunroe-hz8rf
      @markmunroe-hz8rf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mookinbabysealfurmittens While it's true not everyone is for tech, you forget that evil is growing every single day. Sure there are those who are speaking up, but in the end, we can't defeat every single evil.
      The only thing we can do is help others, speak up and give advice. You say we can change, but not everyone WANTS TO CHANGE AND LEARN. That's life, that's the truth.

    • @kezzatries
      @kezzatries ปีที่แล้ว

      Me thinks you missed the point

  • @qwertyuiop1st
    @qwertyuiop1st ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I suspect that the old man's telling is missing a lot of details about how people who did not want to 'go back to a natural life' were ruthlessly suppressed (or said to themselves "screw it" and left for the stars).

    • @no-prophet
      @no-prophet ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I guess I'd be one of those, I don't like to walk. Leave my teleport alone.

    • @Donkichoff
      @Donkichoff ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@no-prophet Tschaw ! fair winds, go prophesy elsewhere 😂

  • @vidaotu234
    @vidaotu234 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A very educative video to teach mankind the need for us to respect the simple natural things of life instead of our sand castles and flying machines that guarantee no life and easily crumble

  • @darrylwiggins4799
    @darrylwiggins4799 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The understatement of this is overwhealming.I'm honered to have seen it.

  • @johntaylor9381
    @johntaylor9381 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “This is why we walk: because we are human.” Profound.

  • @leonestello
    @leonestello ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Neat story telling.
    Beautiful Story.
    🌍🌎🌏

  • @farms6
    @farms6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing, I'm so glad I found this channel.

  • @glennkrieger
    @glennkrieger ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terrific story telling by the perfect person.

  • @rbuschy
    @rbuschy ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The concept of cities dying cause everyone spreading out is interesting

    • @IngoSchwarze
      @IngoSchwarze ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No it is not. It is totally nonsensical. A typical country is 0.1 to 3 million of square kilometers with 50 to 500 million people. So even if all people left the cities and spread out uniformly across the whole land surface, that would still be on the order of 100 to 500 people per square kilometer. Unless you killed at least 99.9% of the population, there could not be the solitude shown in the film. Spreading out would merely turn the whole land surface into one large urbanized area.

    • @Nova-in6me
      @Nova-in6me ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@IngoSchwarze the story follows a time when humanity had become extremely advanced! Pretty sure they might have separated to different exo planets.

    • @IngoSchwarze
      @IngoSchwarze ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nova-in6me Maybe you are right, even though i don't recall the narrator alluding to anything like that, whereas he alluded to a lot of other technological advances and social changes. But yes, it could be: physically reaching any exoplanet seems pretty unlikely even as a future technological advance, but arguably less unlikely than inventing teleportation. It's arguably even more likely that the piece is set into a future where global population dwindled to a tiny fraction of the current level without anyone being forcibly killed, by humans simply having fewer children. If only one in thousand humans had a child, such a state could easily be reached within one or two generations, and the human-machine relations alluded to make it seem plausible that humans might have lost their interest in procreation - or been ordered to refrain from it.
      But that merely shifts the question: what is interesting about the concept of cities dying because either the vast majority of humanity teleported away to thousands (or even millions) of exoplanets, or because the vast majority of humanity simply stopped procreating, for unspecified reasons, but not all of humanity, for equally unspecified reasons? Or a combination of both? Granted, such a sceneario with only, say, a few ten thousand or hundred thousand people left on earth might be a setting that some interesting and peaceful story could be told in. The fact that most stories actually using such a scenario tell violent apocalyptic stories does not prevent that. But no story is really being told here, and the scenario alone feels a bit underwhelming to me: "With only a few ten thousand people on earth, we could actually return to a life style closer to nature." Oh really? You don't say...

  • @jonaspucko78
    @jonaspucko78 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best short movie I've seen so far, not kidding. 👍

  • @ricrandmfx
    @ricrandmfx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Quite a brilliant piece of work, this short film. 👏

  • @acidbubblebath77
    @acidbubblebath77 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bravo. A very introspective film.

  • @AzeAlter
    @AzeAlter ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow. I wish there was more.

  • @darkbulb367
    @darkbulb367 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful piece of work.

  • @maxa.4725
    @maxa.4725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the argument of this short film makes me thing of all the things that the future could bring

  • @PrimitiveInTheExtreme
    @PrimitiveInTheExtreme ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How wonderful.

  • @huwwyn1
    @huwwyn1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant. Thankyou.

  • @You-Be-The-Judge
    @You-Be-The-Judge ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When he started showing him the stone I figured next was skipping stones which is something I used to love to do.

  • @segothgalont23
    @segothgalont23 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn, that's good.

  • @mookinbabysealfurmittens
    @mookinbabysealfurmittens ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful! A wondrous short story that says so much.

  • @aarons7975
    @aarons7975 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No matter what you have, how rich, what gadgets, without a soul and a tie to your roots, you are empty.
    People are so immersed in their lives, much of it fake, that they forgot where they came from and WHAT / WHO they truly are.
    So obsessed, that they don't have time for a 5 minute walk,
    To enjoy the warmth of the sun
    To enjoy a breath of fresh air
    To enjoy the sound of birds
    To enjoy the wind in their hair
    To enjoy the earth beneath their feet.
    Just to enjoy anything... they are too busy.
    That is not living, and it absolutely is not thriving, it's just existing.
    The human soul needs much more than that to thrive and flourish.
    Step away from the computer here, go outside, just take a deep breath, look up, look around, and appreciate the little things that make up the world we are in. It won't harm you, and it's good for the soul.

  • @markmunroe-hz8rf
    @markmunroe-hz8rf ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We need a BALANCE of machines and nature.

  • @johnjohnonboard5261
    @johnjohnonboard5261 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great. I loved it. Thought provoking.

  • @hellojanettenoel3152
    @hellojanettenoel3152 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing and very true

  • @IngoSchwarze
    @IngoSchwarze ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is not really a film - the images are mostly unrelated to the words spoken. It isn't even an audio drama because there isn't really any plot or any character development. Instead of telling any story, it's just an auctorial voice pontificating away,

  • @AcapulKero
    @AcapulKero ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Powerful words, great poetry. Thanks for uploading this video.

  • @AngeliqueHope80
    @AngeliqueHope80 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the best ones I've seen in a long time. I've always wondered about this, what would become of us if we could achieve teleportation. This is a fantastic timeline to think about.

  • @FWCC1
    @FWCC1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So, what year do they exist in. So after 100 million years they're walking in the woods.

  • @FBPrepping
    @FBPrepping ปีที่แล้ว

    That was AWESOME. Thanks.

  • @SistorCarrera
    @SistorCarrera ปีที่แล้ว

    a tale and within the tale is a message

  • @ogrebeast64
    @ogrebeast64 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very powerful presentation. /standing ovation

  • @djo3634
    @djo3634 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was so beautiful

  • @mindspace696
    @mindspace696 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant!

  • @rakibhasan8016
    @rakibhasan8016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, we need to walk through nature to rediscover our humanity. Today and in the next century.

  • @createwithpete494
    @createwithpete494 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not what I expected. But just awesome. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a large stone ring in the Forrest covered in vines.

  • @ilenekuhns3463
    @ilenekuhns3463 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved this. (Music is so loud, the people are hard to hear )

  • @donkenmuir9504
    @donkenmuir9504 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well done It is well worth watching

  • @TheRealSkeletor
    @TheRealSkeletor ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice story, good for narration. But it doesn't really work as a conversation between characters. And this breaks the cardinal storytelling rule of "show, don't tell".

  • @osmia
    @osmia ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for having CC enabled

  • @TheZoltan-42
    @TheZoltan-42 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is not a short film, but a long exposition with a noisy background. So much for 'Show. Don't tell.'

  • @JeffCreates
    @JeffCreates ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really nice concept and good execution. A little bit hampered by the performances.

  • @donkenmuir9504
    @donkenmuir9504 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s. A good film well done

  • @biffgee6797
    @biffgee6797 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Kind of sounds like the current trajectory mankind is on.

  • @belgarath6388
    @belgarath6388 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The hit song of Left brain perfectly encompasses my thoughts on teleportation.
    "They'll do anything you like, Real fast and then real slow, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I don't want to go.
    Take me apart, take me apart, What a way to roam. And if you have to take me apart to get me there, I'd rather stay at home.
    Sirius is paved with gold, So I've heard it said, By nuts who then go on to say, "See Tau before you're dead",
    I'll gladly take the high road, Or even take the low, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I for one won't go.
    Take me apart, take me apart, You must be off your head, And if you try to take me apart to get me there, I'll stay right here in bed."

  • @DaleWheeler
    @DaleWheeler ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Interesting, but I'm not sure what the message was supposed to be. Thumb neutral.

  • @siewheilou399
    @siewheilou399 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So the boy just imagined that he went to a beach? How did he picture his destination without prior knowledge?
    This looks more like human lost all their technologies.

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm sure he's heard about what it's like to be on a beach, and visualized it in his head. Kids have imagination for such things.

    • @siewheilou399
      @siewheilou399 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheRealSkeletor
      Just like you cannot dream what you had never experienced.
      And where are the other humans? Do they interact with the others? It looks like there are very few people left.
      This actually looks like the Utopia after Just Stop Oil took over.

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@siewheilou399 Speak for yourself. I often dream of things I've never experienced.

  • @soerengerlach4932
    @soerengerlach4932 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent story, short but superb!! Really loved this one 👍 And I think the aspect of desintegration for teleportation is already a nice one for a follow up 😂

  • @bdoeden64
    @bdoeden64 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is why we walk, because we are human. Profound.

  • @gorflunk
    @gorflunk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting take on the old argument "If man were meant to fly, he would have been given wings."

  • @thehypearound
    @thehypearound ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautifully done!

  • @okancanarslan3730
    @okancanarslan3730 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing film

  • @scotthultin7769
    @scotthultin7769 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    96👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤔

  • @ambergriffin91
    @ambergriffin91 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Taylor Port” can also take you anywhere within a matter of seconds

  • @dredgerivers7730
    @dredgerivers7730 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So... WHEN are the pancakes arriving in the mail?!

    • @robertarvanitis8852
      @robertarvanitis8852 ปีที่แล้ว

      Terminology, ..."by teleport"

    • @dredgerivers7730
      @dredgerivers7730 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertarvanitis8852 Homer Simpson. Wrong episode.

    • @robertarvanitis8852
      @robertarvanitis8852 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dredgerivers7730 Ah reaching for "popular culture." Interesting.
      I prefer to relate to the topic at hand.

    • @dredgerivers7730
      @dredgerivers7730 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@robertarvanitis8852 It was deeply elegant to have a good story with so little dressing. I rewatched some, but I can't remember what about it evoked the timeless vision of pancakes crossing the country in envelopes. Probably the child-like questioning of the likable, questioning child.

  • @Paralloid
    @Paralloid ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Дуже гарна історія!

  • @xiaoweiwang6824
    @xiaoweiwang6824 ปีที่แล้ว

    用对话缓缓把世界观和背景展现出来,让观众自行脑部所描述的世界,并且探讨了 科技和人类之间的关系,很好看。

  • @davidwearmouth851
    @davidwearmouth851 ปีที่แล้ว

    Food for thought....

  • @stevie-ray2020
    @stevie-ray2020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good short film spoiled by music that's loud enough to drown out most of the dialogue!

  • @kevinkall8547
    @kevinkall8547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Music and background sounds track is way too loud

  • @rmorton7226
    @rmorton7226 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dramatic music louder than the dialogue. Can't enjoy it sorry 😔

    • @darried3157
      @darried3157 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree. Annoying AF

  • @billy4227
    @billy4227 ปีที่แล้ว

    There must be an award for the lowest budget Dust film ever.

  • @Slaci-vl2io
    @Slaci-vl2io ปีที่แล้ว

    Low cost but organic

  • @14s0cc3r14
    @14s0cc3r14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ahh yes, the most common Sci Fi trope.
    TECHNOLOGY BAD

  • @username82765
    @username82765 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved it. However, watching it on my Samsung fold 4 the music and background noise was often much louder than the man speaking making it difficult to hear what he was saying.

  • @daevydjae
    @daevydjae ปีที่แล้ว

    As there will always be those who reach for more, will there be a time when some humans will move beyond what we are now and become something else, while there will be some who will wish to stay as we are?

  • @bbaucom2
    @bbaucom2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, we reverted back to an existence where average life expectancy was about 45 years and poverty was ubiquitous, scratching out a backbreaking and bleak existence. Nah, you can have it. I don't want anything to do with the good old days.

  • @robertdiceston3336
    @robertdiceston3336 ปีที่แล้ว

    More is not necessarily better. Progress is not necessarily a sign of improvement. Simplicity relieves stress. And just to do it, doesnt mean its good.
    We are becoming moe and more like a Wall-E universe. Letting everything and everyone do the work for us so we get lazier and lazier. Unhealthier and unhealthier.

  • @wernerboden239
    @wernerboden239 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is the music often so much louder than the voices ?
    Really annoying.

  • @fupston824
    @fupston824 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you're going to present what is essentially a monologue, I think you need to employ a *really* good orator. Sadly the man in this short was not that orator. Rather stilted delivery.

  • @omarperes8307
    @omarperes8307 ปีที่แล้ว

    ARGENTINA Diciembre 2023

  • @rremnar
    @rremnar ปีที่แล้ว

    The idea of destroying and reconstructing as a mean of teleportation is nothing but a cheat. It isn't true teleportation. Imagine that you pass through such a thing to visit a relative; but you find yourself floating about, questioning what happened; while a copy of you is visiting your family. I never liked that idea of teleportation. My idea of teleportation is through the ability to fold space, swap it like a partition, or simply change the energies of your location to match the energies of another point in space and time. I am sure there are other ideas, but destruction/reconstruction isn't teleportation, IMO.

  • @Jason-iz6ob
    @Jason-iz6ob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can barely understand what he’s saying over the background noise.

  • @ghanshyamshriwas3190
    @ghanshyamshriwas3190 ปีที่แล้ว +1

  • @JS-kj6qf
    @JS-kj6qf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍👍

  • @ether_sect
    @ether_sect ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy info-dump.

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ✌️✌️

  • @breakfreak3181
    @breakfreak3181 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was actually pointless as a film as the story (well it's more of a 'backstory' really) was told entirely by exposition. As someone implied, 'show don't tell' was thrown right out the window, lol.
    This honestly could've been the opening of an audio book, and in fact, after a while, I was just listening on my headphones rather than watching the characters trek through the woods!
    The narrator's voice is pleasant, and the narration starts well but then becomes quite stilted in places, making it sound like it's being read directly from a script.
    Interesting concepts, strange execution.

  • @X4b4r4ss
    @X4b4r4ss ปีที่แล้ว

    Already seen. transmit new things, don't pass off old ones as new

  • @Martin3060
    @Martin3060 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A boring audiobook, not a sci-fi short film.

  • @ricardoniebla
    @ricardoniebla ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whatever happened to this channel? This film is just lazy.
    My opinion!

  • @keithhowell4138
    @keithhowell4138 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definatly seen better on this channel.

  • @Mallory-Malkovich
    @Mallory-Malkovich ปีที่แล้ว

    A sermon disguised as a short film, preaching the ineffability of the natural and the dangers of technology. Again.
    Aren't you tired of being afraid of the future? Aren't you tired of being afraid of change?

  • @gdutfulkbhh7537
    @gdutfulkbhh7537 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don’t like the narration. Very wooden.

  • @PeterQuentercrimsonbamboo
    @PeterQuentercrimsonbamboo ปีที่แล้ว

    Well… and yet another audiobook with video clips that show utterly unrelated imagery - and a narrative that is rather cliché and superficial without any evolution of a story that could create a sense of connection or relating with the audience - try again !

  • @danielkianmckiernan4909
    @danielkianmckiernan4909 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Internet exists to show us that Britons don't know the English language either. The third-person plural genitive absolute is “theirs”, not “there's”. And, when uncapitalized, “internet” refers to some internet, not to the Internet especially.

  • @BillyMandalay
    @BillyMandalay ปีที่แล้ว

    awkward writing

  • @vitaliypohuy7683
    @vitaliypohuy7683 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👎

  • @vidaotu234
    @vidaotu234 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A very educative video to teach mankind the need for us to respect the simple natural things of life instead of our sand castles and flying machines that guarantee no life and easily crumble