Sci-Fi Short Film: "Lucid" | DUST | Online Premiere | Starring Chris O'Shea
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- A man's plan to propose to his girlfriend quickly goes south when he starts to have memory problems.
"Lucid" by Travis Bible
Starring Chris O'Shea of "Riverdale"
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More About "Lucid":
A man's plan to propose to his girlfriend quickly goes south when he starts to have memory problems. As the day continues, things start to take a Black Mirrorish turn as he struggles to figure out the source of his confusion.
"Lucid" Credits:
Written and Directed by: Travis Bible
Starring: Chris O’Shea , Holly Kagis
Also Starring: Jaya McSharma, Kemerton Hargrove
Produced by: Travis Bible, Chris O’Shea
Director of Photography: Rob Senska
Audio Supervisor: Brett Ulery
Associate Producers: Kemerton Hargrove, Wes Post
Colorist: James Honaker
Editor: Travis Bible
Location Manager: Jeff Smith
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Thanks Dust! Excited to release Lucid, originally titled Jennifer’s Magical Sunset Engagement.
That was done well.
Travis... That was very real, very moving. You can't fix the past. You can only remember it... and regret, suffer, or enjoy the memories.
I liked the short, but I don't understand why she didn't try to reconcile with the real Spencer. Did he die? Get married? She just can't find him? Great shott either way.
@@LordKohaegan we left it a little open, but ultimately I think she would rather live in the fantasy than risk the likely rejection in real life . (We did shoot an alternate ending where he was dead though). Thanks for watching !
@@elbibt I actually thought that we would find out he had died shortly after she took off on him. Great short, I'd love to see the alternate ending if you ever upload it.
A cute well written story made on a really small budget that can only work if the two leads have chemistry and give very good truthful performances. Both actors achieved this which ultimately drew you in and made you listen and watch. Great work.
Oh HELL NO! I already have a hard enough time living with my wrong choices. NO WAY would I let them show me how it could have gone! Talk about rubbing your nose in it lol! Unless of course the new stories stayed in place of my real memories! What an awesome, scary short!!! Love it
Our memories, in real life, are not nearly as "reliable" as you think. Every single time you access it, the memory changes slightly.
@Christopher Petit Every time ypu remember, you are remembering the last time before that rather than the actual event
Wonderful chemistry between the actors in this short film.
They’re a real life couple so made my job way easier :)
I never usually write a comment on your movies, but, this was the greatest one I have ever seen. It was so real like it was a movie on TV. Travis Bible, you have a bright future ahead of you. Don't give up on your dreams. They're right at your doorstep. Thank you.
Not a big romantic, but the sci-if element carried this short film onto the podium for me today. Thanks for sharing. Very well done and definitely entertaining.
This has got to be the best short on dust, ever. we need more shorts like this all day everyday. I've never had it this good on this channel. Thanks Travis.
This is just like we play in our minds everyday to fix the past. Great short Dust! And Congrats Travis!
Quite a twist. I thought it was him having a memory problem, but it turned out that it was her reliving her memories. Brilliant! It seemed like a different version of Total Recall. 👍
Nibbler: Because this is your mother's dream. Use it well, Philip J. Fry."
Unfortunately your comment is at the top, so it’s an unexpected spoiler for everyone who might look without realizing. Maybe consider editing it?
Good job for spoiling the movie. For all geniuses who will say not to read comments - it's hard not to when it's a TOP comment that just pops up.
Thanks for saving me the trouble! Already seen this idea six hundred times on DUST. :)
That was really good. Had me thinking at the end, what would I do if I could relive a moment.
Well done.
Travis---Bravo! This is excellent science-fiction!! "Lucid memory" is a very original idea (first time I'm seeing it), very good actor and actress. And it had a beginning, ending and a twist in the middle. Best I've seen in 2022! Thanks!
PS--His not being able to open the ring box was a brillant device to convey the limits of "lucid memory."
I binge watch Dust from time to time. I love the sci-fi and alien stuff, but this one really got me. Well done!
WOW, yall, just WOW!! Im suffering from 2 TBIs while in the Army, and this memory storyline was hitting close to home. The ending was a COMPLETE surprise, but it was a very well done piece!!
@Tom Harris What?
This is my baseline.
What?
Well done... GLAD you called it "Lucid" and kept more suspense! Well done all around!
You know it's smart scifi when you hear yourself saying "If it existed, I would definitely use that tech."
Loved this short. Beautifully acted, perfect script and cinematography.
Now this one was Epic. Surprise ending. Thought it was Spencer and She was the memory. Really well acted and written.
Oooohhhh that was sooo good, amazing actors..❤️🌹❤️
Love the twist. This was really good. I admire how you did so much with so little budget.
I like how the story surprised me. Refreshingly creative...
I hate that she never tracked him down. That is the danger of this type of technology. Instead of actually changing your life, you can literally relive the past. Who knows maybe her ex is using lucid memory to relive the same moment. That would be a shame and they would never know....Great short! Got me to think and that's always a win.
Love this. The premise and acting are top notch.
Nicely done and something that we often wish could happen as we throw the dice of our fragile memories hoping to once more, connect.
Is it just me or do these just keep getting better and better?
gave me chills...this is a masterpiece
I definitely felt sad for the memory of him! well done, the characters are adorable!!
I loved the way the discontinuity hinted us before he realized it.
Fresh, unique, absorbing. Well done, kept me glued.
I wish this existed today and probably does in some secret location. I can think of so many memories I would love to go back and change it would be nice to just go back and edit and hit the delete button for the bad parts and keep the good and have them turn out the way that you would want very well done truly a masterpiece on most of these shorts keep them coming you got a fan for life from me
Hi Dust! Long time no see..
And now I don't know whether you've improved it, or you're still the best!! The single idea of been memoryless is just so creepy, horrifying, and too sad, indeed. However being part of a simulation, and live it lucid ... it's like to be dead and not to know it❗🤦🏽♀️
Am I the only one who thinks Chris O'Shea sounds, looks, and acts so much like Tom Scott. Wow! That aside, it was a great short. The thought of getting pulled in to someone else's choices is really scary. Great short!
Well, it cannot be fixed by having memories of a perfect sunset proposal.
That was nice and relaxing. Thanks all
That was great! The ending was perfect. Thanks
Loved the twist brilliant, the way the world's going people will live memories through CGI tech.
I had to share this with my friends. Great film!
Beautiful short film, absolutely adorable characters, and kinda feels sad that Jennifer doesn't get the strength to move forward in life instead of trying to relive a memory she wants to improve, albeit in her dreams only
Enjoyed this one- Thank you!
Sooooo good! Congratulations to the whole team. Instant classic. Modern Twilight Zone.
Wow. Amazing writing & acting! What a great concept!
Nice lesson told in this shorts. Regret never comes first.
Wow. This script was so well articulated that it almost made me think girls have feelings. DUST your aweaome!
A very cool and original take on a classic scifi trope!
Wow, nice change up in the story line you pulled off there!
That was so interesting!
This was very good and so emotional.
So real to me. I have a red box with a ring inside. Not brave enough to give to the one I love for fear of rejection.
This was really good writing and acting 👏
Wonderful
Wow, just wow. Hats off.
when i feed & talk to ducks in the park
we never talk about the 1 legged duck hoping nearby . :)
Wonderful special effects ie a convincing dialog.
Spoiler alert: It’s a Total Recall rehash, but so enjoyable because the characters are amiable and the surroundings are breezy, warm and full of possibilities of what could have been. Nicely done.
This was really surprising and sad, bravo, 👍😳😳👏👏👏👏❤️,
What a freaking twist. Looking at the past this one comes so close to me trying to change the past. Great 👍 thanks. More real than real.
Is Chris O'Shea the most charming Brit? Did he win an award for it? Certificate from His Majesty?
Dust, that was a really well done short!
OMG Awesome. Well done.
Just one word: Amazing
loved it great acting, insightful twist. Relatable as well, who hasn't replayed things in their minds for the better albeit a fantasy no less
That was great! 👏👏👏
This is how people act when I am in a lucid dream and tell them they andrew just my imagination
Oooh. This was good
Wow that was not what I thought was happening at all.. just wow... Great story.. heartbreaking though
Sad and beautiful.
Amazing👏Great concept👌
Certified Gold!!!!!
I thought this was brilliant! I'm not complaining but it's nice to watch something on Dust that doesn't features space ships...
@@RPRosen-ki2fk To Cerberus I say "but I like space ships." The story line could have included alliens such as in Star Trek where they gave Cmdr Pike a new reality.
Dust just repackages other peoples films and makes $$ (big time) doing so (but they don't seem to bother to read the 1000's of comments make.) This film is high on my list of good ones, and I too have increased my fanhood of Dust/SciFi RP Rosen.
One comment I liked: You can't fix the past. You can only remember it... and regret, suffer, or enjoy the memories.
Another asks if one should say anything. That's my question, if I should tell an ex-grilfriend I'm sorry the path I chose 45 years ago.
Wow . This is some black mirror feels
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Glitchy Spencer = self awareness = Skynet. Tech support saved humanity!
Also, "Chastity shorts" 😂
ALL of my clothes must be chastity then 😞
When your mind telling you don't watch something fucked up don't want something fucked up
Very interesting concept. Enjoyed it.
Well Done!
Most excellent twist
Maybe she can't track him down..like he may have died...another great one is 'Contact". Like this, few special effects. Very sad and scary..comment to me if you argree...Dust is awesome.
Contact was very good, both moving and anxiety provoking.
Well produced ... never guessed the guy wasnt real.... so what happens next? Where is the real guy? Where does she go from there? Does company keep creating new memories of what would have her life had she not run away? What good would just having a memories of things that never really happened be? If new memories keep being created it would men lots of repeat business for Lucid Memories? Is there a subscription plan? 🤔
Hey.. Wait am I real??? 😱😱😱😱
Nice. Keep up the good work.
I've been in love with a girl for over 10 years now but she moved on.
Even though every day feels dreadful n hopeless, I daydream about all sorts of ways to express my feelings just like Spencer. 😊
I know it sounds weird but this could be probably because my heart doesn't know anything else.
To quote Weeknd - "I wear her heart like a symbol."
Ultimate ! I loved it very much !
wow, another sci fi film that is very sci fi BUT no cg, effects, not about space, no gravity boots, just a big mind trip that makes you say..... wow.
Psychotherapy will never be truly effective until we can go in and excise exact memories and replace them with un-traumatic ones.
Great work! At first I thought it was schizophrenia... Could future technologies cause this? Scary..
Quite interesting. Makes me wonder, if the program didn't 'glitch' would she have left with a memory of something that didn't actually happen? If so, how would that affect her later on? Good short film all around 👌.
Yeah it’s an interesting to think about how it works. I think when conceived it was more of a Total Recall thing where she’s getting new memories but when she comes out of it she knows they’re not real. But while she’s in it she’s living in the experience and changing it, so there’s repeat business that way and a good/super unhealthy way to live in the past.
Scary future! Thanks
Well...there has to be a significant allowance for suspension of disbelief for this short story to work at all. For instance, the _memory_ of the guy holds the phone but is talking to the _real_ lucid memory customer support? And when he is "reset" the _real_ phone is on the ground so in real life she can pick it up? Among other inconsistencies.
And I think the (new) _Westworld_ conception of memory is probably more true to life anyhow, in that the hosts have perfect recollection of everything, when rebooted and "awoke", to the point they can't tell the difference between memory and current reality, but humans' memories are more "fuzzy" and incomplete.
Also, aside from the whisper thin fragment of sf, as sci-fi I suppose if this is another low- or no-budget college film school project, it maybe just eeks by as sci-fi.
Once again, when it comes to sci-fi short story telling, read up some more first with the likes of Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.
It's pretty good camera work and acting, but that alone does not make make up for a poor story.
Very good one, which show a very possible future
Wow.
This kind of technology?
Uh oh.
I'm sure one day it will be real.
Outstanding!
Wow loved it!
best of the last year
Either they are really fantastic actors or there was some chemistry there 🥰
Someone earlier said that they're a real life couple. 😊
totally unbelievable. to believe that someone actually answers the phone in seconds when you ring a company is dubious at best....im always put on hold for for an hour. and then there are those stupid menus that must be navigated
Definitely different . . . a sort of romcom wrapped around a serious concept, an ultimate form of neural bioVR. What was she actually hoping for, though . . . to "repair" the damage she caused 10 years ago, at least in her own mind? The reality itself isn't going to change, nor is she going to unravel its current consequences, but it is an interesting plot concept.
Wow! Interesting story.
The bug at 12:40 on her finger freaked me out.
I'm real, I've got some holes in my memory but I'm real, I, I know I am.
Perceval Pickens? Is that you?
i really wish people stopped using ear ringing noises in media its really annoying especially when someone has ear ringing themselves. like hitting a nerve.
Scary good. Sometimes I feel like both of them.