Sci-Fi Short Film "Dreamcatcher" | DUST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2023
- In the distant future of New America, Cora is forced to face the guilt of her actions through an experimental interrogation tactic.
"Dreamcatcher" by Chris Phelps
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In New America, crime is at an all-time high and countless murders are going unsolved every day. Forced to take ruthless action, the government develops an experimental and highly controversial interrogation tactic: a drug that induces the suspect into a dream-like state of psychosis, forcing them to face the guilt of their actions to the point of confession.
Cora Dalton is questioned for the untimely death of her roommate, Beth Barnes. Cora is persistent in the fact that she does not know what happened, but Detective Hammond is determined to get the truth. He slips her the experimental drug.
Now plunged into psychosis, Cora finds herself in a therapy session where she is pressured into talking about what really happened and the events that led up to Beth's death. She states that Beth stole her love interest. Fueled by pure jealousy, Cora confesses that she spiked Beth's wine with peanut oil and stole her EpiPen. While she confesses to the therapist in her mind, she confesses to Detective Hammond in the real world.
Cora is charged with murder and sentenced to life in the memory loop chamber where she is forced to relive what she has done until she dies.
"Dreamcatcher" Credits:
CAST:
Cora Dalton - Christa Lain
Detective Hammond - Lucas Ross
The Therapist - Carol Anderson
Beth Barnes - Kylie Ward
The Love Interest - Danny Barracca
Dr. Adler - Josh Sanders
Crew:
Written, Directed, and Produced by Chris Phelps
Co-Produced by Olivia Jones and Mason Katter
1st AD - Olivia Jones
Director of Photography, Camera Operator - Chris Phelps
2nd Camera Operator - Joel Pletcher
Production Sound Mixer - Nick O'Neil
Boom Operator - Elijah Preston
Grip/Gaffer - Mau Vasquez
Wardrobe - Emalee Crouse, Carmen Clemente
Makeup - Emalee Crouse
Editor - Chris Phelps
Sound Designer/Mixer - Chris Phelps
Visual Effects Artist - Chris Phelps
Colorist - Eleazar Wilson
"Catch My Dreams"
Written, Performed, and Produced by Chris Phelps
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Thank you for watching! And thank you, DUST, for the opportunity to share this short film on your platform! It is such an honor. I am happy to answer any questions about the film and how it was made!
Dear science fiction writers, stop being so damn pessimistic.
FFS, liked it. Thanks!
That was weird. Don't drink the water when you're being interrogated. 👍
I always wanted to know how dust managed to make such content , now i wonder how making of these contents gets financed ?
Well, I can tell from your story that you're clearly not a lawyer.
So, I like that about you already... :)
This reminds me of a few other shorts I've seen. It brings up the question of "If you could go back, would you do it again?" and "If you're guilty, the worst punishment is to relive your worst moment over for eternity." True hell. Very well done.
Wasn't there a Black Mirror episode like this?
What the title of the short movie you’re referring to I’d love to watch it
I think so yes but I don’t think it was a sentence more like the investigation similarity
REALITY IS NOT FAR FROM THIS, BUT FOR EVERY DISSIDENT, NOT JUST ACTUAL CRIMINALS. Or rather, this will enable the State to redefine unilaterally and cheaply what crime is. Good short.
This was crazy!!!!!! The ending threw me off! Absolutely amazing!
Thanks so much!
The Clockwork Orange ending was a nice homage to a great film.
Yes, the Ludovico Technique, Loved the book....
Been a while since I've seen the original movie. Seems that here it was used as punishment. In CO, seems it was used as rehabilitation.
Absolutely loved it! What would have destroyed is if the final scene saw her with some sort of sustenance drip, a colostomy/catheter so she literally had everything to keep her alive and in place for all of her days. She's gonna pee and crap herself at some point and they'll have to disconnect her from the memory feed.
Totally agreed! We actually really wanted to do something similar, but unfortunately we had limited resources and worked with what we had. Great thought!
Fantastic story line, great acting, loved it, superb.
Finally, a movie on your channel with context and a proper ending.
I love the irony that she killed her victim by putting something in the drink, and the detective does the same thing to her.
The loop is real for people who have a conscious, have deep guilt/regret or victims of trauma. Its hard for them to escape reliving those memories, unless you can come to peace with it, suppress it(not a healthy method) or cope with the memory, it can seem like a life sentence.
Unless you have multiple regrets and have learned to accept you're definitely not perfect and live with them. In which case every new regret does not mean a lot, it just fits into a pattern you accepted long ago. And I suppose that's what most people do anyway.
What a short film! Magnificent in every way! ☠🥜☠💊☠
This is like Black Mirror's White Christmas but without the feelings. Even the ending is a copy of that episode.
Edit: it's not that I'm criticising, the execution is perfect, but it still feels like an attempt to remake Black Christmas.
First thing I thought of.
One of my favorite episodes.
Thanks for the feedback! Coincidentally, the script was written before I knew about Black Mirror, but one of my co-producers actually told me to watch it because he also thought it was similar. I drew inspiration for the visual of the final scene from the "Black Museum" episode where the wife is in the mind chamber watching her life on the huge screen.
yes same exact plot as White Christmas
I thought of Black Mirror too. But there's a lot of differences and additions too. Like the whole trying to convict her with stealing her thoughts and brainwashing/gaslighting thing.
In Black Mirror she was already convicted from the start. It was all just the "punishment".
@@Albtraum_TDDC dumbass, in black mirror they sent John Hamm in to get the confession from HIM (not her). Then once they got the confession, they left the perp in the device as a punishment.
I loved this. Excellent story !!!!
Thanks so much!
2👍's up DUST thank you for sharing
another truly great one this would make a really good streaming series
It is awesome as is. And it is what I like DUST for.
They should make this a series. Great job!✨
Great short!!!
Certified Gold!!!!!
Appreciate it!
A just sentence. Great video!
Loved this!!! Interesting sentence!
One of the better DUST shorts - wouldnt mind seeing more in a series of shorts.
Was Cora REALLY guilty? Or was the MEMORY of the event altered just to get a conviction?
Like an episode of Star Trek Voyager "Ex Post Facto" where Tom Paris is convicted or murder and is implanted with memories of the victim and forced to relive murder over and over. Later it was revealed the "memory of the murder" was faked.
What if in the world of this short, a memory could be extracted, altered and reimplanted? Its already been proven implanting false memories is possible with exiting brainwashing techniques. With technology it could be done instantly.
Thank you! In our vision, yes this actually happened and she really was guilty. However, we have the idea of memory alterations if this were to be developed into a series or a feature film. Great thought!!
No better patsy than one who believes they did it.
@@johncarlaw8633 yes, this Dystopian idea has been investigated in classics like Total Recall, The Minority Report, many other stories.
Not only the interrogation is Dystopian, but also the punishment. Cruel and unusual punishment by definition.
In progressive societies, the purpose of Justice is to mitigate suffering of victims and rehabilitate perpetrators who have done harm to society.
@@Albtraum_TDDC And the film/play 'Gaslight' eponymous to a process.
If they are able and allowed to have her imagine she is talking to a counselor/psychiatrist in a room then all her memories are in doubt.
This was my thought and at the end I wasn't sure if she was guilty or not.
I like hugs and kittens endings as much as anybody but I think a little doubt can be a 'good' ending for a film.
@@johncarlaw8633 good points.
The soooong! 💖💖
Nice ending 🔥
Thank you!
Great plot, great acting, thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you
Very clever! Very well done and in small details as well!
FUNKINNNNNNNNNNNNNN AWESOME SHORT!!!!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!!! JUST SAYIN!!!!! THANKS, FM.V.
So well done! There are many more aspects of this still to be explored.👍👍
Thank you!! Hoping to develop this into something bigger so there is more room to explore. Thanks for watching!
Amazing short 👏👏👏👏👏
Really excellent!
WOW, Brilliant concept...Peace
Great actors, great story and great everything. On many other shorts I wished to see more parts, but this one here is just perfect. A masterpiece.
Thanks so much!! We appreciate you watching and we're glad you enjoyed it :)
Obviously a child film student sucking up like 99% of the commenters on this channel. 😂😂😂
Psychological hell! And not surprised man, as usual, made himself judge jury and god. Just wow! Great job!
Thank you!!
damn the punishment at the end is worse than death sentence.
Excellent stuff. Slight caveat: who in their right minds would store red wine in the fridge?!
Very well done good film good acting
Wow! A short Sci-Fi film about my favourite K-pop group!! This should be good! 😅😜
I'm getting ready to order those lenses he had on at the beginning of the movie
Really creepy ending! This film will incite nightmares.
10/10.
We appreciate it!
@@arnoldsherrill2585 This idea was actually passed around in pre-production! Great thought! Unfortunately the budget and time restraints didn’t allow for it
what did you do for voice audio? was it recorded after/over to mimic?
We used a boom mic and field recorder, all dialogue is live production sound and the computer voices come from an AI text-to-speech software!
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It was really good, but it was almost to the before I thought how is this sci-if. Then the end and I was like, wow this could make a really good series.
Amazing⚡⚡
Very well done, some people IRL could deserve this treatment, too bad its not real.
Wow wasn't expecting that ending, well done!
Yes, this Dystopian idea has been investigated in classics like Total Recall, The Minority Report, many other stories.
Not only the interrogation is Dystopian, but also the punishment. Cruel and unusual punishment by definition.
In progressive societies, the purpose of Justice is to mitigate suffering of victims and rehabilitate perpetrators who have done harm to society.
Loved it.
Thank you!
Excellent plot line and the actors were spot on. Well written and produced. Kudos.
Thanks so much, we appreciate it!
@@chrisphelps8840 This channel and
ALTER are breeding ground for
new talent.
Chris, you show much promise
here , by doing a lot with very little.
@@billmurray7473 Thank you!! Really appreciate this.
I loved this, 5/5 stars.
Thank you!
ok, but what if the person is a true psychopath and actually gets off on killing like serial killers do? Wouldn't this be the best possible ending for them?
Never considered that! Really great thought. Could be interesting to explore this idea in a feature film or series!
@@chrisphelps8840 it would be interesting to explore. Great short film btw, I was truly engaged from start to finish.
excellent point. You hate someone so much, killing them brought you such joy, and now you get to relive that for eternity.
Think if you 'loved' them to death, reliving the vinegar shot, over and over, until death.
@@shazmodeus2795 Agreed! Thanks so much!
Haha. The poisoner got poisoned. Great short!
Indeed! Thank you!
Damn! This short is a proof that the thing called 'Human Rights' should exist even for criminals. What can be more terrifying than being locked within your own memory for eternity. Btw terrific execution Chris Phelps.
Yes, this Dystopian idea has been investigated in classics like Total Recall, The Minority Report, many other stories.
Not only the interrogation is Dystopian, but also the punishment. Cruel and unusual punishment by definition.
In progressive societies, the purpose of Justice is to mitigate suffering of victims and rehabilitate perpetrators who have done harm to society.
What if endlessly watching the woman that stole your man die gives you nothing but joy?
This is the rare type of horror,
more psychological than
the physical blood-and-guts type.
David Cronenberg rather than
Wes Craven.
Ignorance is bliss!
Interesting premise 👍🏻
Thanks!
" Ok, kids. What did we learn from watching this video?" Don't drink water offered from a cop.
Whoa!
The actual system was discovered because and individual wanted to know which family member was stealing the ice cream from the freezer.
Definitely an amazing short video. Hooked from start to finish. Just two what i believe are called continuity errors. One oil and water don't mix, see oil and vineger salad dressing. Two anaphylaxis results in an inability to move air in and out. The result is whats called a rocking horse motion. Not huffing and puffing. I apologize for being picky, blame on all the incredibly bad medical TV dramas.
Thank you for watching! There were a definitely a couple of details that we should have done more research on haha. Appreciate the attention to detail!
If a story isn't compelling at the halfway mark I pull the plug, as in this case.
One Star
Putting things in drinks is tight
Cool double entendre! But she won't be catching her dream guy!
Now this is one with a unique twist. Like it, and I can see something like this being a 'thing' in our very near future. id give it a decade tops.
good film, good choreography. good all around.
Thanks so much!
I wish we had such a regime for real. It‘s perfect! 🤩😍😌😏
This is not a cure. But it is what their victims could have wished with their last breath.
Damn, that was tight. First i was rooting for her but that would be a cool way to interrogate in the future. I'm sure it's possible now.
I was suspect of the water from the start. What if the girl refused it? Also, can we get all the politicians on that seat? Make them confess everything on live TV then arrest them.
The water level in the glass changed before she took a drink.
Very “Black Mirror.” Reminds me of “Black Christmas.”
Might be better (if it were real) that the project was called memory catcher and not dream catcher. Sounds spooky.
🤯👏👏👏👏
Soundtrack on the golden vinyl?
This is sick
This is that girl from that one movie where aleines take over everyone body and then that girl in it does not let her mind get taken over. I forgot what the movie was but it was good.
Reminds me of the Christmas episode on black mirror
A lot of parallels to the Black Mirror Christmas Special here.
Not a complaint, just an observation :)
Not bad
Daamnn!! I guess that is a fitting punishment.
Well, not that far off into the future. There actually has been ongoing research, for years, where experiential content can be extracted from the brain, via specialized fMRI imaging system, and "played back" as a video (Prof Jack Gallant, UC Berkeley, is a good example of this). The resolution is still rough, but the content is verifiably there.
There is no place to hide in the digital world...
Echoes of the Ludovico Technique?
😱👏👏👏
Sinister Ground Hog Day Retribution
A bit silly but enjoyable
Funny thing memory.. it is vague points of a vague area in time.. but so are remembered dreams.. or fantasy..
Omg!
Was the loop at the end her punishment for murdering her roommate..?
Reminds me of Clockwork Orange
Why was the red wine kept in the fridge?
Very Black Mirror...
I'm starting to see a darker trend in the science fiction realm of movies/shorts ..
I'm hoping for some more space travel.. ??
Some SyFy that gives us some HOPE for humanity?
wow, cruel punishment)
Such a fuck up world is coming.
DARK
I'm not thirsty, BYE!!!!!
Why is all Dust so dark? The future is bright if you fight back the evil. If we can't overcome then smart notes/communication will
That's what's happening when we start consider that reality is not only what we live in every day life but also dreams .in my opinion dreams is the only thing that we can't change it is the only thing that is real in this world .and can anyone tell me the name of the song that been played ?
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Because even in the future, the American prison system will be about punishment, not rehabilitation.
Yes, this Dystopian idea has been investigated in classics like Total Recall, The Minority Report, many other stories.
Not only the interrogation is Dystopian, but also the punishment. Cruel and unusual punishment by definition.
In progressive societies, the purpose of Justice is to mitigate suffering of victims and rehabilitate perpetrators who have done harm to society.
Peanut oil does not cause an allergic reaction, it doesn't have the proteins in it that people are allergic to.
I wasn't going to say anything.
Haha yep you’re right, found this out right after the film was completed. I should have done more research beforehand! Thank you for watching!
@@chrisphelps8840 It was great. Reminds me of Minority Report in a way.
Similar technology already exits.
Just hoping there isn't an alien going in or out of a toilet in a cabin in the woods..
THis *Chef's Kiss*