Welcome to Earth - Short Sci-fi Film | The Netherlands (2019)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2019
- It’s 2618 and humans are extinct. Four aliens travel to Earth to visit the museum of humanity. There they find the story of the last heroes of humanity, setting out to find help.
Welcome to Earth is a short science fiction film filmed in the Netherlands. It was made with a large group of both professional and amateur filmmakers. To bring the world to life it was filmed on both unique locations and inside sets build specifically for this film. It contains designs in both props and costumes that are specifically created for this film.
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Viewers have described this as a beautifull film with an emotional story. The strong script was one of the driving forces behind the creation of this film. Many crewmembers and castmembers found themselves drawn to the script.
The Open Filmteam is commited to giving everyone in the Netherlands the chance to participate in the creation of films of a professional level. Its productions give unique experiences to both its professional as its amateur participants. openfilmteam.nl/welcome-to-ea...
Though made on a shoe-string budget, we've strived to make this a cinematic film with the depth the story deserves. Due to the professionals in key positions during the creation, the visual style, sound design and music were all of professional quality. Combined with great locations, set design and hand crafted props we hope this is a film both lovers of indy films as people with a more average taste in movies will enjoy.
This films was made possible by the support of several Dutch organisations and funds. Among the contributors were: Fonds Cultuurparticipatie, VSBfonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Gigant. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
The kindness of the aliens and especially when the guy is struggling to remove his mask and the aliens steps forward and helps him.
It’s poetic how he didn’t know he was the last ambassador, and he probably didn’t know he was the last human
Pizza Time poetic? Your pathetic. See that? The alliteration is the closest you will ever get to poetry.
banjaxed W. Why do you have to be salty man?
@@banjaxedw.7880 i like how you tried to be an English snob but also used the wrong your
@@banjaxedw.7880 Calm down there buddy, not sure why you're offended. Also, you're, not your.
banjaxed W. You’re*
“Which one would you like to see?”
Clicks on sketchy looking folder with one terabyte titled: “homework”
thoughed more about the porn map........
"taxes and unpaid bills by banks" 35 petabytes.
One terabyte???
One terabyte of homework????
@@ksneijppehrxxiii5991 porn camouflage
i have absolutely LOVED this one! worth much more recognition. It's very emotional, a bit retro and a bit different. I have even told it to my family as a story the other night and they have appreciated it.
The retro look and emotional stimulation...on point.
"Unfortunately, we've gone extinct"
Oh ok
extinct but educated (at last)
Yep
I think that was AI speaking
They killed everyone sending them in ships full of failures instead of returning them, I mean if they had hyperdrive and comms that reached earth in seconds why not return to fix the ships lol.
Remember "The Big 5 "events?maybe we are the last one to face extinction..
Realistically, if an arch structure like this still exists on Earth after the extinction of humanity, the most important information it contains is not personnal files, but digitized DNA sequences.
In that sense, the ambassador is not the last living human, he is the first man of the new humanity, ready to be reborn with the help of a benevolent alien species.
Depends on how u define 'living'. Personally digitized info is not considered to be alive.
@@armastat DNA is information, as long as this information is transmitted, copied and recombined, a species has the potential to be reborn and spread again.
@@TheZapan99
As long as its digital its not LIVING. that was the point you missed apparently.
You may be right. One detail TH-cam compression won't show you is that on the wall when they enter it does say it's only one of multiple levels of the museum. So who knows what else is in there. Thanks for watching!
@@armastat Thousands of people alive today come from frozen eggs and sperm, sometimes even small embryos revived during in-vitro fecondations. At one point they were all frozen cells kept in tanks, yet today they are real people, not different from you and me. But those gametes are expensive to maintain in liquid nitrogen. Therefore, if humanity was facing extinction, DNA would be sequenced and stored in digital form. The only reason we don't do that today is because our computer storage capacity is still limited, but a day will come where digital DNA will be equivalent to organic samples. This would make no difference for an alien species, that would still not consider our species as extinct, as long as they could read our DNA, even is no live specimen was to be found on Earth.
Hyperspace is primitive...but the instantaneous radio transmission over millions of light years is TOP NOTCH!! LOL
That is true tho any signal that can reach out millions of light years away in seconds is top notch
Konstantin Raudive
Some function of the hyperspace technology I would assume.
Quantum entanglement. With today's ideas about physics, the instantaneous communications seem possible, actually.
"Unfortunately we gone extinct" that's a funny way to say we got no reception lol
Had this not been an Ad, I would have missed out on watching this little gem.
Anxious Panda aye that’s i got here brother
Anxious Panda sme here
Same here!
Proof that ads are not just a waste.
Still hate ads
all the missions faild because their ships were made by IKEA
luddly cunningham and what’s the mission exactly?
Where was SpaceX! .... Oh, on Mars!
IKEA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My IKEA aeroplane is finished, now its time to test fly. I'll get back to you..
😂🤣😜
You see acting like this and you realise that the actors in mainstream movies are at the top of their game.
Not as easy as it seams to come off as "natural" without it seeming totally forced.
@@tecwzrd That's the problem with inexperienced actors, trying to act normal will never come across as normal.
Just be normal instead, The best actors in the business try to find parts of their roles they identify with themselves and then just go with it.
Micah Fischer hi is this Micah from Lynden? If so tell Rene Kathy says hi!👋🏻think CRH showers lol.. the acting was a little stilted but it was probably our future if we don’t blow up before that🌎
My brother who took a film making course, could make a better 10 minute short film than this.
Makes me cringe. But its awesome work. And makes me appriciate hollywood actors more
i love short sci fi clips, the true benefit is that i don't have to wait 2 hours to find out if I've been had...
With a low budget and amateur cast this short film was definitely above average. It draws the viewer in with questions of why and how. The conclusion was easily foreseen however. The takeaway is a well known trope of humanity regretting it's actions too late to reverse the conclusion. With more short films like this, the writers and studio have a long but bright road ahead.
better than justice league
@@songyani3992 yeah lol
I agree the fumbling to open the helmet gave it away for me. Which may have been the point but I would have saved it for the end.
Could have showcased more ambassadors so at least we would have to guess which one was going to be revealed. But I guess that would be a feature length film. Good short anyway.
Wow I loved it so interesting keep up the great work I'd love to be part of this with you if ever needed more people
The one time I'm happy to click on an add, this is a beautiful film
Thanks for your kind words and watching the film! We're happy it reached you!
Wait a minute, Human beings went extinct, and the planet is destroyed, that’s a scary concept
*ad
You would have to travel for centuries just to find anything close to being intellegent and more than likely their answer would be "no, we have our own problems!"
Anonymous Libertarian We can barely get along on our own planet.... And some how we are supposed to convince a whole new species to help us. Lol.
@@parthorox3869 Well if we by some miracle not totally butcher managing the pandemic maybe we can!
@@parthorox3869 lol right the aliens would be like sorry we dont want none lol no solicitor's pls.
But aliens can give solutions. even if they can't help.
Anyone here because of mystery recapped?
me
has hyperdrive technology and instead of sending out colony ships to other star systems they send a dozen people out alone to make first contact....
How big of a mass were they able to move with one drive? It may have been the best solution, especially if they were exceptionally risky.
@@dreadpiratewest6058 pretty sure trial and error could have helped perfect it.
And even then it would've been easier to send out colony ships
@@YOLO-tq3el Or non-boarded ones with only community technology perhaps. It wouldn't make the story as it turned out possible though.
Maybe alcubier drives could have been used
Considering how reliable the hyperdrives seemed to be it may sense. But on the other hand they must have had good enough sensor systems to find habitable planets.
A very engaging film. However the twist was very predictable, it would have been less predictable if he hadn't been trying to get his helmet off the whole time.
I didn't see it coming :)
Thanks for watching and your feedback. Honestly, that was partly a concious effort. We'd rather put the clues in and have some people figure it out early than putting no clues in and making the ending come out of nowhere. Though the twist can be a lot of fun if you don't see it coming, we don't think that's the most important part of the story. Great job for figuring it out!
I also guessed Rene was the remaining "alien", for this same reason. The ending would've been better if it wasn't so predictable
Yeah it was kinof, but still good
I didn’t see it coming
“Really? Dying out on a planet when your species has advanced enough space travel to go FTL, let alone settle the Solar System, and all you can think to do with it is go around the galaxy asking for help.”
Looks at Twitter. “Okay, yeah, that’s probably fairly accurate.”
Nice plot twist, thanks for watching!
No wonder there ships broke they hyperspace like ever 10 seconds
A strategically placed ad by TH-cam and an excellent, engaging, and enjoyable short sci-fi film. Definitely left me wanting more - I do hope there'll be a sequel!
Thanks for making and sharing this.
Doesn’t need a sequel. People asking for unnecessary sequels cause the death of many studios/franchises reputations.
@DoubledEdgeSword321 Was that directed at me, friend? I think you're mistaken - I'm not a science denier, oil-greedy, nor a Trumpublican "fear and hate" crowd. I simply appreciate the film for what it is, and would like to see a sequel, or prequel.
@DoubledEdgeSword321 No problem! A simple misunderstanding.
Question, was your ad for funeral planning service too?
Thanks for your kind words and for watching. We're very happy you've enjoyed it!
This is not a movie. It's about aliens in weird spacesuits watching a movie
**aliens in medieval knight armor...
Hypadopervai. Mehta tasa johl fasa ! Chet chowa...
Anyone here from Mystery Recapped?
Yes, but actually no.
Yes, but actually no.
I LOVED this one! Great storyline & it had so much story packed into such a short time! Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching and letting us know!
Short movie about a guy trying to take his helmet off.
Gewber this week on plots explained poorly lol
I'd almost change the logline.. Almost...
@C caymer propganda for what?
@C caymer which is why the TH-cam algorithm is serving it up.
@C caymer Bullshit.
It's simply a movie made by Dutch film students showing their shit and doing it very well.
So well in fact, it's got its very own tuppence hapenny conspiracy theory.
Fucking propaganda?
No, it's just a fucking student showcase
Must be hideous not being able to enjoy innocent creativity. A fucking nightmare in fact.
Poor you
Yet another story where humans can build faster than light starships, but are somehow flummoxed when it comes to adapting to life on Earth. Because adapting to space is easier.
Where you can't scare people into giving up their rights if you show that human beings are adaptable
Unfortunately life can exist only within very narrow tolerances. Technological ability does not change that.
@@kdrapertrucker All life depends on the functioning of natural systems. Once destroyed you cannot adapt them back into existence.
Bryan Booker
That's why we are fucked as a species...
We have destroyed the natural systems.
Our air, water and soil have been poisoned
by big money and the elite. We're gone by 2100.
Dr. James Olack Just happy I may be dead four years before then.
*"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the knowledge probe"* So much for that technology.
-"Do you swear to get extraterestrial help or die trying?"
-"I swear !"
Excellently written, brilliantly produced on a shoe string budget. Well done!
Wow, great feedback! Thanks for watching and letting us know you enjoyed it!
@Open filmteam you have no tastes and no brains. This was garbage!
*When you accidentally drive into the sun*
dumb ending...... /The Outer Worlds/
Lembread lol
@@TitanUnleashed7 a sun ?
been there...
I believe she came out of warp/ hyperspace too close to the sun. Couldn't correct in time.
Me quedé sin palabras. Este corto es demasiado corto para lo bueno que es. Por favor la segunda parte o un largometraje. Salud y Felicidad para todos.
Well, Aliens seem to be nice and alive... but there could only be one human to see them.
Lady ambassador: (getting burned by the Star.)
Com officer: please confirm your position.
Bruhh
position....extra crispy...well done.
@@otiscarter1356 cloudy with a chance of.... fried ambassador?
Well medium ... Well
More than done, chrispy
"Ma'am, manufacturing of the ships are being delayed because the camera integration team is running in to unforeseen problems, I suggest we only integrate one camera, strictly required for communication!" "No, we need those dramatic camera angles for our archives! Reassign some of the engineers of the FTL drive to camera integration, we need those shots!" Sometime later: "Ma'am, we have trouble getting enough bandwith for the video feeds, we either need to stream in lower quality, interlace the video or use less camera's" "By God, no! Are you crazy? Reassign some engineers from life support to solve this problem! This is number one priority!" After the last ambassador crashed: "Ma'am, we lost all ambassadors! We are doomed!" "That's really tragic, but did we get the footage? I need them cleaned up and color corrected before they are submitted to the archives!"
Het blijft nederlands: knullig, houterig en voorspelbaar.
This was great! Highly enjoyable with an incredible twist ending! Very well done you guys!
Having lived in the Netherlands it was nice to hear the language again. This is a great mini-movie. The way it ends leaves room for a sequel.
Great to hear you liked it and hope you enjoyed living in The Netherlands. Thanks for watching!
@@openfilmteam9745 I enjoyed living in the Netherlands very much.
That was indeed Dutch! I living in the Netherlands.
Do they count like that?
@@georgewillems32 Do you count like that?
Assuming this was done with a pretty low budget, it could have been much worse. I commend the filmmakers for their effort. I think a special effects film with a small budget is a very difficult thing to pull off.
Thanks for watching and letting us know what you thought of it!
No matter what their budget was you can't make up for they're acting
@@mylandunsen their acting was pretty bad overall. Story wasn't well written either. Why would ships only have one person operating it across galaxies? Why weren't other pilots told about the failures? If hyper-drives are prevalent to send people all over the galaxy, then why not continue humanity on an earth like planet elsewhere?
Micah Fischer Right, like what would be the point of finding another species to help us from the planet we destroyed just so we can help them destroy their planet.... Doesn’t make a lot of sense.... I think it would be better if we decided to go colonize a habitable that is unoccupied by intelligent life. We need to learn from our own mistakes on a different planet before we decide to introduce ourselves to another intelligent species as, “Planet destroyers...” And not even the powerful type of planet destroyers.... We are planet destroyers simply because we live.... We would anyone want to help a species that could so easily be stop from destroying planets if all they have to do is simply wipe them out...
This is one of those " did you do it" " yes" " what did it cost""everything" moments
hahaha When they first took off the masks my first thought is they are smurfs on meth
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Zuera never end...
The cube has all human history...they liked the meth
Eles são a evolução das zebras.
So this is whats really happened when I played as an alien race sending science team to investigate ruined Earth
...
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In Stellaris
Muhammad Reza Ayyye, maybe the Commonwealth of Man survived?
Deip Mapper! The Commonwealth got wiped by the Militaristic Fallen Empire they were unfortunate enough to spawn next to...
I knew I'd find this comment somewhere in here! Stellaris!
I came across earth that was still stuck on earth. Kind of funny since I was playing as a militaristic human empire that was super advanced and became one of the most powerful empires in the galaxy but couldn't conquer them since they were surrounded on all sides by an empire slightly stronger then me and a fallen empire
"Don't worry dear, I made him promise to drive safely."
That was the funniest moment of all this nonsense 😸
Gee, im impressed how well these are done these days. Rock on
So we know the hyper drives aren’t very reliable, so why couldn’t they just send robots or pilot it from back here on Earth? It would be way less dangerous and a robot could probably drive with a lower chance of error. And if the Earth was dying as they said it was, they could just have the robots scan for life forms AND habitable planets. That way when the robot finds a habitable planet they can prepare colony ships in case they don’t find any aliens to help them.
Life includes plants etc. If there is no life, there is no habitable planets.
Good question! We considered that in pre-production and came to a similar conclusion. This is why they did send drones as well. Sending human pilots as well seems a smart idea because it's hard to teach a computer to recognise something of which we have no examples and it would be more comforting to most people to know there were people out there too. The other vessels out there without human pilots are only quickly referrenced to by the major when he says '6000 are already out there' so we certainly don't expect people to catch that. Still, we enjoyed speculating about this and appreciate you do so as well! Thanks for watching!
Open filmteam Fair enough, thanks for replying!
Wow the WiFi in space is awesome
È que eles estão em um futuro passado que ainda usa polaroide.
"..which one would you like to see?" "All of them." wow
I know...10000+ files to stand there and review? I was thinking about when everyone at the diner table is ready to leave, the waitress asks if anyone would like dessert...theres always that one guy who says "id like to see the dessert menu" ^_^
I did not get the aim of the movie. So he was rescued and reved up by an ET civilization...he went back to the crash point who knows, decades or centuries later, that's why he wanted to see all about hus past life on Earth...this is all about this movie is???
Blue aliens: "Ah man c'mon WTF this wasn't part of the deal, there aren't even any chairs here."
@@bobsnow6242 darn i guess those helmet chair combos were a great idea after all
I am so proud of the whole cast and crew! It has been a great project with an amazing result! 💞👽🌍
Sophia Hovius I wish I was part of the crew :)
@Easliy Displeased I am really curious how you would make the movie better! Note, it has to be possible with a really small budget ;)
@@FlamingoVlogs Yeah it would be nice to be part of the crew indeed! I was part of the cast myself, because I just like that more. Next time you should watch the site for an opportunity to become a member of the crew! ;)
@Easliy Displeased The name checks out. It's a sci-fi short film, there's no reason to expect AAA Blockbuster quality. I thoroughly enjoyed this short film.
@@sophiahovius3665 , 8:35 twisted belt on left shoulder
Them trying to find aliens to help them when the could of just gone to another planet.
'Could have' not 'could of'.
When the Netherlands makes a movie a sci-fi movie they go to IKEA to get the job done ✅
Has FTL tech, Zero delay comms tech and still went extinct. lol
Has all that tech but mother nature can be a bitch when she wants to be. Tech doesn't spare you from that
still went extinct due to their own stupidity in not utilizing a new technology better . . . in not informing the public of what happened so an alternative solution could be found . . . in carrying on as the planet died . . . which is exactly what we are doing right now. fortunately we still have a few visionary people around that are pushing us to expand and explore, and that will likely be the only thing that saves us from ourselves
@@DJDaisho What would save us from ourselves is learning how to be a unified people without all this conflict and to learn how to treat our world better. Otherwise, the next world we colonise will just be a repeat of this one.
Isn't that exactly what we are doing currently?
English Film
This has been a great project to work on, thanks everyone for the support!
It's so good! Thanks
I love this film. Five times over the last few weeks, I have seen it in varied moods. Each time it's better. Thank you.
Great to hear you enjoyed it that much! Thanks for watching!
"I'm too close next to the sun"
"Please confirm your position"
Dead position🤓🤪
3 things for this amazing piece! 1) Everyone put on the "CC" or just hit "control c" and you can understand what they're saying in English. 2) This was so beautiful and real! It was so sad that he was the last one... and that he found help too late! This was an amazing idea and I want moooorreee! 3) Don't ever stop what you're doing Open flimteam!! This was so gorgeous and so well done! I can't thank you enough! No ad brought me here, just fate :)
Edit: Thanks for commenting! It means a lot to know that you read my comment! You're all amazing!
Great to hear, thanks! And we will!
Also you could learn to speak Dutch, I have lost most of the Dutch I could speak when I worked in the Netherlands but I reckon a month and I'd be ok again. It's an easy language for a Highlander to speak because Gaelic has a lot of the same sounds Dutch has of course.
They had FTL drives and super luminal communications, why not colonize a new planet?
Early prototypes and not yet reliable. For the story they just didn't have time and resources to develop the technology and large enough ships. Actually only hinted at in the film, but thought you might like to know anyway.
@@daruvante They'd probably get farther in larger ships rather then pods....
@@valiatus6719 They would as long as they'd have time to make it and have technology that would work on them as well.
@@daruvante Welp, they failed so 99.99999999% of Humanity is dead, save for one guy.
@@valiatus6719 Yes, they should prosecute the writer for that bodycount.
Calling them Ambassador, using them as human waste. Nice
Very modern way of motivation
Here's a thought: unmanned missions.
You're welcome.
Did they try building more ships? Oh no we lost 12 people better just give up.
IKEA ran out of plywood.
This
Is
so
awesome!!!!
I wanna see at least 1 hour of this film
This is great
Good job
Storyline is freaking awesome!
Good job dudes!
Me too I'd love to see a full film!
@Easliy Displeased hmmm you gotta point there bud...
@Easliy Displeased On the first look a good point, but i do not agree. Maybe not everyone wants to populate other worlds without first checking if anyone already lives there, like humans did in the movie Avatar. The Pilots were ambassadors, not conquerors. What if any aliens come to earth (doesn't matter if they use FTL or not, it is just a question of time to travel, not more) and start to colinize earth without consideration of humans? And what is wrong about finding ET-Races that could help us to save our own planet instead of occupying another one? In this movie the aliens were peaceful enough to bring rene back to earth, maybe they would habe been peaceful enough to help humans saving earth...
This form of art video was amazing. I could feel what you were conveying and at the end, tears were streaming down my face. Thank you for such a beautiful story, it was well-received. I am a writer and I would have liked to have seen this story developed even further. Not complaining, just love to see more of your story outcome. Actually, I do the same thing as you did here, I leave my audience hanging. More, please. Thank you, you are wonderful and you are incredible. Most likely, you will never see my comment. Much love and light.
Great to hear you enjoyed it! We’re currently working on two new projects. We’ll upload about this on this channel in time. I’m curious what more you’d like to have seen from this story because that’s always interesting to learn. If you have any work we can see online, let me know as well. Thanks for watching and letting us know what you thought!
This one really moved me. Heroic people have always been among us with their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the greater good but this was a step above. The portrayed scenario is indeed a possibility if we don't stop destroying our world for the sake of money. Well done and thank you.
They have hyper drive, but they can't tighten a safety belt.
I know for a fact that belt was actually a real diva that nobody could really work with on set.
That's our nature, we have clean and unlimited energy from the Sun and yet we use fossil fuels..
Luis Lopez unlimited technology from the sun but solar panels do not generate much electricity and require precision to make. fossil fuels are a better option
@@kkwun4969 No, they're not. Cus they'll fuck up the planet. We need manmade fusion.
Zew ld its called a generator
I'm glad to see that the Polaroid Camera Company is still in business, in the future. 🙄
when she said they are authentic and he wouldn't understand it, i kind of hated him and loved her. i.e. the difference between holding a photograph that comes out immediately after being exposed and you can hold it in your hand, to virtual stuff on a screen that is still just information.
That doesn’t mean the company. It’s anymore than the companies that made the antiques and vintage collections I have on display exist.
@@smallstudiodesign And where do you buy the instant films for the camera ?
Light years away, instant chatting. Poor Einstein. I want that Iphone!
Traveling faster than the speed of light, but no delay in radio communications. Still fun to watch though
I enjoyed this. I can certainly overlook the budget considerations when such a decently written story is told. As an aside: there are many beautiful people in the Netherlands, that's for sure ;^) Cheers for this, Todd
Great to hear, thanks for watching!
This was really good, it got me involved right away and caring about what happened. I can't imagine what it would be like to be all the people, families, etc...involved in such an attempt to try and find help for humanity, and I definitely can't imagine what it would be like to be brought back to life by aliens and then be brought back to Earth by them to find out what happened to everyone.
...only to discover that they all left on better Hyperdrive equipped ships.
Wow, thanks for watching and letting us know how you experienced it. We're always happy if people are emersed in the film!
@@nscaled1 Thanks for giving us a great sequal ;)
I'm concerned about only one of us.
Guess the space police killed us all...we were unarmed.
This short movie had me glued to my seat to the end. Great work everyone!
Great you hear you enjoyed it that much. Thanks for watching!
This was very good. I loved the General’s acting. Guy was awesome!
Good idea, low budget. But hey you gotta start somewhere, right?
Iván Mont sos signal would make movie obsolete. 🤣
Thanks! You're right and we're glad you enjoyed it!
I understand low budget. But you could have put their hats right, bérets properly setup, the girls with the huge uniform was funny.
But the idea is good, the story engaging.
Hey René landed on Hoth!
@socal rocks well yes. All berets are designed the same in the basics plus the crests are generally placed directly over an eye, usually the left. The accoutrements are group/country specific. The over large, I'll fitting uniforms were slightly distracting but took nothing away from the hard work and storytelling.
Would be cool if there was a sequel. Welcome to Earth: The Last Human
Well done. I like how the Comms operators and ambassadors were one team.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Really good effects! Altough seeing more of the aliens planet would have been cool. Good Job!
this is what happens when you try to explore space in ships made out of cardboard
Apollo 11.
Well like the video says humans don’t have the technology to survive into the unknown of space, at least they have a hyperdrive
@@kommnado8096 yes humans DO have the technology to survive. Ever hear of the apollo missions, the moon landings, the international space station , the space shuttle, etc?
We have had the technology to survive just about anywhere.... What we don’t have enough of is like minded people that need to realize the bigger picture and those that don’t care to stop shoving their pockets full of cash on someone else ailments... As long as we keep billing each other for the betterment of our species we’ll never get anywhere....
I mean think about it.... “Oh you need meds.... Oh these meds can save your life? Well, how fortunate for you, we have the meds you need, but you either pay us or you died, plain and simple.”
We are all to worried about how much money we can make off of other people’s problems....
And do you think a species would really care to help us.... Knowing us we wouldn’t help unless they gave us something in return....
wait they have hyper space tech and still manage to go extinct?
Considering it failed on every single one of the trained ambassadors ships, and considering those ships were the supposed last hope for humanity, I'm guessing it was super early tech that wasn't fit to transport a sizable amount of the human race before we all died.
Considering that it lasted long enough to visit over 200 planets in some cases, it would have been enough to scatter humanity to the stars.
Still they had reliable faster than light communication, and it worked more than 50% of the time. If they could get a few colony ships to mars, even using conventional travel they could have atleast survived a few more decades.
Madness Proxy probably was built to go far without little to no maintenance required any bigger would mean lots of upkeep, resources, time, and luck something they didn’t have.
King Sick Puppy, a quick jump to an exoplanet with earth-like conditions would have been the perfect solution to keeping humanity alive.
Upkeep? You don’t need a lot of maintenance for a one-way trip.
Resources? During the funeral scene, Earth was still quite livable and society was still functioning. They still had plenty of resources and volunteers for colonization.
Time? Like I said, Earth was still livable. Not only that, but they already had the technology they needed to relocate. They had plenty of time.
Luck? The first pod to be destroyed was on its fourth jump. Several of those pods lasted for over a hundred jumps. A colony ship would only need to last for one jump. The odds are in their favor.
Humanity didn’t need an alien race to solve their problems. They had everything they needed to save their species.
The sequence of the ambassadors and their family was uncalled for!
Whoa, the ending...we see the best and the worst in humanity under extreme pressure
After reading the description then watching the movie I was pleasantly surprised. Very well done and congratulations to all the people involved. Thanks
Great to hear, thanks for watching!
@Open filmteam you have no tastes and no brains. This was garbage!
Someone enjoyed Star Wars. Luke's Hoth crash at 14:20, plus the whole plot of this short is "traveling through Hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!"
Amazing! I was shocked in the end and did not see this coming
15:25 "These men, died for us!!!"
Damn, those dutch really don't care about the women pilots at all!! XD
@tech 52 Oh I see, like you got your "men" and then you get your "oh woe is me men". Wonder why they don't just spell it woemen. Then everybody is back on the same page.
@@realitycheck3363 Though your confusion is understandable with the current climate around such words, Tech 52 understood the film right. The word 'men' has meanings other than just the plural of man. It may also refer to a group consisting of people of both genders (as humans does). This is even more the case in this scene as the Major saying it comes from a military background. In the military, it's particularly common to refer to (mixed) troops as 'men'. In the vocabulary of a military man, not only is it a term referring to both men and women, but to specifically those men and women that serve (under them). We're happy to see most people understand it to mean all under his command, even if they don't conciously know the word men has that literal meaning.
WoMEN
You wanna be upset about it, be upset at the asshats that redefined the meaning of 'man'. about 6-7 centuries ago to be exclusionary.
Did you know there is at least one known historical legal document that states something to the effect of:
'To my daughter, who is a man, I leave my estate'.
Unless you're going to posit some weird gender confusion the meaning of that should be obvious.
'man' in this context has no gendered implication whatsoever - it refers to someone who is a legally responsible adult.
More messed up words:
'he' was originally gender neutral. Hence why the bible refers to God as 'He', which carried no gendered implications originally, but does retroactively due to the shift in meaning.
'woman' and 'she' are dubious terms created right during the shift away from 'man' and 'he' being neutral terms, and carry the implicit implication of females (oh look another such word) being 'other'.
Did you notice by the way that the period following this shift in language also coincided with a gradual decline of the legal rights of women, until they eventually could no longer own property of their own and were not considered people for legal purposes? (a male relative was considered their legal guardian - father, brother, husband, etc.)
I bet you're wondering how we referred to male and female before this shift? Well, the archaic terms have their own problems, given that they are wepn and wyf respectively (and yes those words are what they sound like)
While we're at it...
'girl' referred to ANY child whatsoever, and was also neutral. (also it was common practice for children to wear dresses no matter whether they were male or female. This continued until fairly recently. There's childhood pictures of US president Roosevelt wearing dresses as a boy - also pink was a colour for boys and pale blue for girls up until about 1930 or so...)
'boy' originally had nothing to do with sex or gender and was a specific type of servant. (something like 'you there, boy!' is directed at a servant, not a child.)
Now let's get into a few other odds and ends while we're at it.
the term 'gender' has gone through a large number of shifts in meaning over time.
Prior to about 150-200 years ago it was meaningless and nonsensical to talk about a person's gender.
Gender was grammatical. Words have genders, people (or animals for that matter) do not. Simple.
Perhaps due to embarrassment or something, it picked up the idea of being used as a synonym for 'sex'. (not the act, but the concept of the male and female sexes).
This meaning started to shift in the 1950's with feminist discourse due to needing some way to distinguish the superficial and cultural aspects of a person's identity as male, female or whatever else might exist from the things that are truly biological. (the former is a much longer list than the latter it turns out. Very few 'innate' differences remain once you strip away the arbitrary cultural and social ones like how people are expected to act in company, how they dress, hair length, and so on.)
Of course, some people still insist on rejecting the mental and/or social definitions of gender even though they're some 70 years old, in favour of the 'old' definition which is only about twice that age...
But whatever.
The meaning of language changes over time. That's something that's inevitable.
But being ignorant of the history of words leads to arguments that focus on the wrong thing.
The real question in historical isn't 'why are people sexist and exclusionary by referring to a mixed sex group as 'men''
But in fact it is, 'how did we end up with a sexist and exclusionary definition of a formerly neutral word?'
We are all men, except those of us who at some point in history fell victim to a language shift that suddenly excluded and 'othered' us.
Which, conveniently, allowed the idea that women are lesser beings to flourish for quite a while.
When you change a term to exclude a group, you can also easily exclude them from anything that uses that language in it that they would have formerly been covered under.
If a wyf is now a woman, and a woman is not a man...
Then they no longer have any of the legal rights that state that you have to be a 'man' to have them, because they are not 'men' and thus these documents clearly don't refer to them...
Yeah... History can be messed up.
@@openfilmteam9745 sorry but i just read "bla bla bla we are machistas"
They sent out all those unmanned probes first and still went to waypoints with no life forms? The purpose of unmanned probes is to find better candidates for the manned missions.
Those probably also came up with nothing. And we have no idea how long it took for these aliens to find him either.
The whole "too close to the star" thing. Can totally relate after having played Elite Dangerous!
Really enjoyed the story and the charming props/sets.
OMG.
Oh gods.
Amazing.
Gut-wrenching.
So stressful.
So...poignant and moving and evocative. And tender. And hopeful.
What an absolutely astonishing short film.
Lady…
You need help.
Beautiful film, but first in my mind came - "Welcome to Earth dimension, C137"
Boi
That's rickdiculous.
This should've been made into a movie. Wonderful.
Thanks! We're glad you enjoyed it!
@A.Edwards It already is a movie!
Earlier at mission control.
"Who ordered all these white sheets? what are they for?"
"Oh, those? Those are for when they die."
"What.. why don't we sent unmanned probes first?"
"Naaah.. let's send people first"
That mission control definitely sounds Australian. Nah, it'll be fine mate...
There would've been no movie then. They had to create a silly story to film something 😅
Loud Fart : Brrrrrrrr
Aliens : Ewwwwwww 🤢
AI : Smelling ability detected.
Lol
Aliens in the first 5 minutes of the documentary: "lmao these guys killed them self's"
If I treat this how it should be treated, and how it's titled, it's a short science fiction film by some amateurs that has some significant plot holes. Filmography is exceptionally well done. The acting is about as good as could ever be expected without some significant coaching.
This movie is short, but the meaning is gigantic.
Respekt to make so much handling into a very short time!!!
It's better than most of high-budget films . Looks like a prequel of great saga . Would be nice to continue this plot as a series .
Excellent. Love the ending. The alien's saved him I take it.🤔💝
Thanks for watching. And you're right, they did!
This is good I'm liking it so i can watch again in the future. Thanks you people did a excellent job much appreciation.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts! We really enjoyed reading them!
Draping the com stations was a nice touch. *Overall* ... _well done!_
Very well done hat off to The Netherlands and Open filmteam ! Scifi at it's best (BELIVEABLE) !!!
They should have built Colonial Ships instead
@Ironclaw XII Colonial: "relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies.
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MTutoriales#2018情報 or just, GO TO MARS. We have the tech today, within 10 years we could prob do some stuff. These guys sitting out here with hyperspace drives
limited resources.
@@tthung8668 You Volunteering?
Bravo. Given your budget constraints, bloody well done 👏
Thanks for watching and your great feedback! We're always glad to hear people enjoyedi t!
I liked the way you ended this one. Really good piece.