EJECT | Omeleto Sci-Fi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- A woman discovers a USB port in her arm.
EJECT is used with permission from David Yorke. Learn more at david-yorke.com.
Kate is a young woman with a strange skin affliction, with a spot on her wrist beginning to itch and turn red. As the raw wound begins to fester, she discovers that a USB port has grown inside of her.
Curious about her new appendage, she plugs into it and discovers a netherworld filled with memory and knowledge. She soon realizes that she can change and improve herself rapidly, not to mention delete unwanted parts of her past. Enabled by her new organ, she plugs into all kinds of skills and information and changes herself in ways she never could imagine. But that ease and rapidity come at a considerable cost.
Directed by David Yorke from a script co-written with lead actor Elena Saurel this coolly cerebral, fascinating sci-fi horror short leverages its meticulous craftsmanship to bring new meaning to the term "plugged in." Its premise literalizes constant connection to the Internet and all its utopian promises, as well its empty allure.
The storytelling seems minimal on the surface, with few lines of dialogue and little information about the character or setting. Instead, the film's opening images focus on the arrival of the USB port in Kate's wrist, starting as an irritation as she goes about her life. But with quick economy, it progresses into something much more serious and surreal, as Kate discovers the USB port growing in the underside of her forearm.
The striking images do much of the heavy lifting in terms of keeping viewers intrigued and fascinating, alternating between cool and crisp evocations of Kate's mind space and the gruesome distortions of flesh as she deals with the port within her. The visuals are both alienating and hypnotic, contrasting the warm but shadowy environs of Kate's real life with the dark emptiness of the place she goes when she's "plugged in."
Many evocations of "Internet consciousness" veer towards the bright and busy, but the film keeps its portrayal of Kate's inner subjectivity very spare, with just a door and some file cabinets. Actor Elena Saurel also keeps her performance spare but evocative, tracing how Kate slowly discovers the link between this new realm and her waking life. But using that link takes her down a perilous path -- one that exacts a serious toll.
Combining philosophical inquiry with a squirm-inducing penchant for body horror that would appeal to any David Cronenberg fan, EJECT is notable for its focus on this particular moment in Kate's life, but the thoughtful yet visceral storytelling may give rise to many more questions. Why did Kate grow a USB port? Is this phenomenon a contagion? And how did it happen in the first place? Such broader questions would be great ballast for a larger project, but the short still teases the philosophical implications of our constant need to be connected.
Kate's home and activities have subtle clues, revealing her to be a woman engaged in learning and challenging herself. But the onset of her USB port's appearance chains her to her electronics, as she spends more energy in her netherworld. Though they're heightened with an almost Grand Guignol level of shock and horror, the film's final images touch upon how that choice can transform us, when we turn our electronic connections into our lifelines at the expense of actual life.
The most unbelievable part was how she inserted the USB the right way round on her first try.
haha definitely
LMAO
😂😂😂
Won :)
This comment is better than the film
Compelling idea. Would have loved to see more development of the rules and effects of the transfer process, especially given the ending came a bit out of nowhere.
Enjoyed it nonetheless.
Yes, she should have chosen a file on more intelligence, or understanding computers or the new data input/output before over dumping other knowledge into her brain. I don't why any person would overload their brain with new info before knowing how many bytes their brain can hold!
@@commonsense2680 That's just it. I think there is no extra knowledge here. It's all hers. She just transfers the subconscious part to the conscious part and you can't do that. There's a subconciousness for a reason.
I agree with everybody.
Also, it would be nice if she had to make a choice, like: would you rather insert the USB stick and get life saving knowledge and die from the side effects...or play it safe and let somebody die?
I really like this idea. But I miss a middle part here, where she plays around a little bit with all these folders and learns their effects. Some kind of development that leads to that end.
Just goes to show: Don't dick around with the software until you've read the manual.
Exactly!
And don’t forget about backups.
Should have got the extended warranty service package
Zuckerberg new meta verse
Y e s
Nice visual storytellling with the guitar and the canvas in the back of her room.
Seems she really developed some skills - for a prize ;-)
Showing her "dying" is ludicrous if she ceased to exist.
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Bro this gave me literal chills
Me too, my palms got sweaty, thank GOD this technology doesn't exist
@@leilaluselusina3451 knees weak arms are heavy
OK, I was eating pizza when this started. I'll watch it later.
The actual mystery of this story is _what USB stick_ she inserted into her arm?
As I understand it. Just a random stick, coincidently having birthday pictures/videos and French lessons.
This given, that to get knowledge on other topics, she has connected to a PC. I'm assuming either getting the new knowledge over the Internet. Or since there are still only two file cabinets. She downloaded info onto the computer off screen.
The premise being that the big file cabinet is her brain, and the small one is what ever device is connected.
I love this . Simple , yet compelling . Well done!
Her past made her who she is today. Travelling back in time and erasing memories of her past changed her into someone else, hence she's not able to come back to the current life as she doesn't exist anymore.
That should have only wiped her memory and fed new ones. It would still make her exist, just with different personality or knowledge. If she were to stop existing, she'd have died when she fed french into her memories.
What I think happened is she overloaded her memory and something to go with the "portal".
This could have been more interesting but ending seemed anti-climactic
She killed her father by throwing his file, so : D
The big filing cabinet is her conscious knowledge. The little one is her subconscious knowledge like the french she took in school. There's a subconsciousness for a reason. She overloaded her conscious mind. Her RAM was just not enough.
@hemmojito but the subconscious mind is always bigger than the conscious one so why is conscious bigger in her case?
That's why I have a rule:
Never rush!
🎶🌻🛸🌎🎶
Doorway was the connection. She put trash in it. And fried herself. Thats my take on it.
Confusing… she didn’t want her dad to exist… so because of that, she dies?
Her father gave her the very DNA that allows her to physically exist, and makes up a large portion of who she is: her physical appearance, her intelligence, and so much else besides. What’s more, her relationship with him has had a huge impact in shaping her, because he is her father. Thus, when she destroyed him, she ultimately destroyed herself, because she both killed off the very one who physically created her (along with her mother) but also destroyed a core aspect of who she is mentally and emotionally as well, because she destroyed the man who’s relationship with her had shaped her to make her who she is. Thus, when she destroyed him, she ceased to exist as well, because without him, she would neither be alive, nor be the woman she had become. This is essentially a movie about not being able to escape your past.
That's not it. The file of her father is just her memory. I think she overloaded her brain and that caused her to bleed to death.
@@martyns1722 you don't bleed to death from memory overload
@@futavadumnezo I didn't say memory overload. Read my comment again blz
@@ravenestrella2310 Well I would think about it more like a deletion only of the memory, not the actual person of her father, still the rest of what you say stands, for better or for worse her father had shaped who she was and without those "files" she was "broken"...
This is the best short film I’ve ever seen, just wow
She overloaded herself with too much information at once. And by throwing away parts of what made up herself, she changed so she couldn't absorb all that she was uploading.
Was wishing i had that, but the end makes me remember to not to mess with things i dont understand
Very creative
and
strange.
Imagery was excellent. 🏆
I give it 10 years and people will have evolved to a point where we are born with a USB port in our arm.
Well our brains are practically electric.
People saying it doesn't make sense:
The files cabinets are like files on a USB. The things she keeps are the things she wants to remember, the things she gets rid of she wants to forget (like her father). She then can't escap because she overuses her energy (like you would run out of power of any electronic before it dies)
Yep
Awesome analogy, but I, personally, would take it one step further than that. The truth is, in your life, there are aspects of it that, no matter how terrible, have made you who you are today. To destroy those aspects of your life is to destroy yourself. Your parents are an example of this. Regardless of your relationship with them-even if you never knew them-they have played an enormous role in shaping you. Their DNA has shaped you into the person you are even if you never knew them, and if you had a relationship with them, it has had an enormous impact on your life, for better or worse. Even the impact of growing up without knowing your father impacts you immensely. Thus, when she destroyed her father’s file she essentially cut herself off from a core part of who she is, and could not return back. Trapped in a completely new identity thanks to the information she downloaded, and cut off from the roots that made her who she is, she cannot return back to herself. Hence, she dies. This is a movie about being unable to escape your past.
@@ravenestrella2310 Wow! What an inference! Awesome. Bravo Bravo.
@@udayry yea
Didn’t make much sense.
Exactly. Can't she exist without her father and relationships ? 🤔
Where do you get these videos? They are both awesome & weird!Damn I can imagine how many Terabytes her hard drive is.
I figure they have a forum where you can submit and they go through them and put them to genres on their channel
I was waiting for her to accidentally insert a USB drive that contains a virus...
I would totally do such a thing XD, just slowly but surely, not stick everything into the drawer and kick it till it closes XD
This is very familiar. I'm sure I've seen it before.
If you rem where please update
Lock and key (web series) has a same concept going inside brain and adding whatever you want
lots of more interesting USB devices than a thumb drive. That didn't make sense
Not me convulsing from queasiness within the first minute
Why are some movies vanishing from your site?
Wait whaaaaat? There were more?😢
WTF the end ? 🤔😠😠😡😣😠
Wow that was eerie
So fkn crazy! loved it
I anticipated it.😄
whytf i just watched that
Guess the meaning is about humans getting to involved with tech?
One word: Greed
I fell like this is heavily inspired by Locke and key but it didn't make much sense
I'm confused 😕
Wow!!!
Neuralink is already here thanks to Elon, get ready kids.
this woman doesn't know it,
but we secretly switched her usual memory stick for a USB Killer....
Awesome Video! 😀👍
kind of reminded me of Dream Catcher and Jonesy's Memory Warehouse
🤯
ok dream corp llc
Tried to get interested but gave up 😂
Like the Nuro link Elon M is working on
I think there are already other companies especially in Japan that have been working on direct neural links to the network. Can you imagine, it may help people with dementia if your brain's processing system would tap into larger and better processing systems that you download from the Internet (but beware of viruses).
Ridiculous. Exactly. Can't she exist without her father and relationships ? 🤔
Pretty girl. Too bad.
Democrats all day that's them forsure
like its slower and takes more effort to access your memories