Hi there! I'm Monique Mulcahy, director of 'Man in the Moon'. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about the film, feel free to leave a comment with any questions or comments :) Enjoy!
Hi! Great! The film held my attention all the time. I would have added at the beginning - the radio starts to hiss. The woman thinks the radio is broken . But then, through the hissing, she hears a child's voice singing. (this is her little son) She has a flashback .The little son is playing with toys and humming this song. (further along the script). And the finale- the radio hissed. She runs up and hears this song again . )))
In the late 80's there was a syndicated TV series called War of the Worlds. It was a continuation of the 1953 film and 1938 radio broadcast. The aliens didn't die. from disease They went into protective hibernation. Their technological concepts were so advanced, everything they built looked like a pile of trash that made no sense. For example, a radio might've been made using a toaster and an egg beater
The visual effect was remarkable, audio engineering was very well done (the finishing hook was beautiful), good acting, but I was most impressed by the lighting. So many choices to make, and every single one seemed perfect. I watched it twice. Thank you for that.
The story builds upon modern fears parents have of losing their children to the mysteries and evils of technology. The information going into the minds of young adults is constant and in many cases, not what parents wish them to be absorbing. Yes, it's common for teens to eventually fly the coop, but more and more of them are unknowingly destroying their wings before they make the leap. Good flic...
I would’ve never gave up my TV if we had things like this on it I enjoy all the short movies that you guys put out well done good taste too bad TV don’t take you guys on
My wife wonders why I watch sci-fi shorts when so many are a letdown. It's to find Jem's like this! The videography was too notch. The pacing perfect. Acting was great. I liked everything about it. I don't like much, so for what's worth, consider this hi praise ;)
Enjoyed it…agree that a sequel would be nice…this story could be taken literally but could also be a metaphor for a mother dealing with the death of a child….interesting to see which way it would go
Did you know that the moon we see in the southern hemisphere is upside down to the moon in the northern hemisphere? But most of the best pictures of the moon are taken in America, Europe and Asia. So when you see a nice picture of the moon in a show made in the southern hemisphere, the image you see is most likely from a northern hemisphere source.
Thats good ,ive been watching dust all morning .one show in i was hooked.,well been actually watching dust for the past couple years now.👀📺always watch the new episodes that come out .
I celebrated the collected ambiguities in this rich, short film. At the end, I felt it was ultimately about the woman's loneliness and growing distance from her man child son. She was losing him to his McGyvered technology and video games and ultimately the inexorable maturity. And, to add insult to injury, now the old 'devil moon" was behaving oddly, looming in the sky. Even her trusty old portable radio, her companion while she toiled away on the endless chores of the farm she struggled to maintain, was failing and behaving in a manner that not only wasn't bringing her the programming that kept some of her loneliness at bay out there but was also actually kind of frightening her. And now, in a region where very few people live, a clutch of stranger dashes across an adjacent field! Is she losing it? Maybe . . . Time to call it a day and just wash up and rest a bit. Only things get weirder. She checks on her son be he "isn't there" again and she is gripped with her chronic alienation. and so on. The layers on this film also take us on its scifi journey, too, with the "what the hell is going on???!!" action but from my point of view, it was about her loneliness, ultimately framed when she finally collapsed into a prostrate, sobbing heap on the very ground she had been toiling to hang onto since she'd become a single parent. How a brilliant, cinematic 12 min. can deliver such a package never ceases to thrill me! Thanks for a great moment in my day--if heart wrenching.
well you could read that into it ... being high would help..but AT the end it really was just some cliches without an ending... PS how did you celebrate ?
@@andrewgalloway7344 With a big smile on my otherwise sad and otherwise overall deeply concerned countenance from following the news these past 3 weeks. I love, love, love movies and have probably watched thousands in my lifetime but maybe only hndrends have managed to give me a chance to get tingly from a well told tale and a well developed character study. Doing that in 12 min., doubly so. Not being high helps me more.
From a technical viewpoint it's great.... It's just that I don't find it plausible that he would not offer his mom (and the rest of us) an explanation of what is happening. Supposedly, he went to the moon. But, for what purpose and to what end? Did he leave in order to save the world or just so he could play video games on the moon without his mom's supervision? I prefer stories that don't leave you hanging with no resolution or explanation of what's really happening. Too vague & no real plot.
Welcome to DUST, where every plot no matter how promising is left for you to figure out! Every ending leaves ya hanging! And a whole lotta WTF's left to mull over when the credits begin to roll.
@@vincemartinez171 Correct! Not every story has to have a perfect conclusion. The fun of it is the " well what happened to..." or " why did this person do this". It's kind of like searching for that pot of gold at the rainbows end.
I read it as a hallucination in the woman's mind. Sick of dem kids cutting through her field, dumping der electric trash. Done took care of 'em, buried 'em at the end.
Very well done - kept me transfixed throughout! Perfectly acted, filmed, the bare-bones story, even the rural location and production design. Kudos to @Monique Mulcahy and the whole team! 👏🏻👏🏻
A unique vid by Monique🤓🤔🤗❗ . I was not impressed with the sons departure. A son who TRULY LOVED his mother would have kept her in the loop, not so evasive with his ultimate plan. As I stated, this was a unique vid that was truly well done👍😁😁 in every aspect !!😎 The mother's reaction to the " disappearance of her secretive son was excellent, you could "feel" her immediate reaction to the loss of her loved one and her apparent acceptance were both portrayed wonderfully!! An all around tight vid that ran us through the gamut of emotions that I really enjoyed ! Well done, Monique, and that's my "critique" 👍👍🙄😬😁😎
I can honestly say one of the best short si-fi's I have seen in a long time. Great storyline, great acting the emotions from the mother seemed truly heart felt and the twist of the revamped aerial for home comfort contact made it a great ending. Well done.
Really kept my attention. Thought it was going to be a bit cliché sci-fi, but it surprised me! Good job! Lightning and sounds were awesome! Just seems like there could easily be a sequel.
Great piece of work. Simple and effective. You get everything you need right at the start to setup back story, a good pace and then the punchline delivered at the end. Superb. Great storytelling. Thank you.
Good job on the theme. Interesting, though. He didn't want to communicate with his mother from near but now want to talk with her FROM the moon? I guess after he realize the reality of it all. Human beings are strange.
Given that a full moon can never be visible until after sunset, I would have been much more worried about it being visible *in the afternoon* that what my son was doing. Of course, then it randomly becomes crescent at end.
It felt intentionally vague for the purposes of the plot. There should have either been some better explanation from the son that still could leave some mystery or generate more questions or provide the viewer with a feeling of awe or wonder or "something larger" vs. this sense that the plot called for a lot of really vague phrases that didn't say anything because they were crafted for that very purpose. In other words, it didn't feel like genuine dialogue. That being said, it's an interesting premise but probably could have used a bit more leading up to the mother feeling like something was off. As it was, that also felt a bit forced, like she was noticing things for the sake of the story instead of putting things together that were, in fact, real odd. The comment from her about the moon just felt out of place. The fact that her radio was on the fritz just didn't connect it to the moon well enough that it should be anything significant to the mother.
No matter the son's experiment, goal or final purpose, he should have let his mother in on what was being planned, not just go on some electronic trash pile journey into who knows where! Real people don't do that. He was not possessed to the point of being under a spell so there is a definite disconnect between him, his mother and his purpose. More of an explanation along these lines would help tie the story line together much better for the viewers.
@@joenoneoyobinnes4727 that's what Woodstoney is saying. He wasn't portrayed as being in a false cult. He actually did get sucked away with the device to travel far away in space.
If he told her what was going on, she would've thought he was nuts, called the police, or done some other form of interference. Maybe he was chosen to save manikind, or represent the Earth in a greater interstellar forum?
I'm so confused with what happened. Was it an alien abduction? Were they manipulated, coerced, or did they discover some unknown secret of the universe?
Nicely filmed but I wasn't sure it was turning into a horror film or stay sci-fi. Since it didn't elaborate on the journey, I thought it was a few minutes too long so I blipped through half of it in 5-sec jumps without missing any of the story. Also it was nice to see the instantly recognisable Australian landscape - Victoria or Tas?
constant reminders for people who did not have loving parents - the pain of the dysfunctional parents who inflicted their "issues" on the innocent children - and yet - my fellow victims - I give you this thought - if they had not been such poor role models that in turn caused you to work so hard at being better and more loving and kind and driven to search the soul and souls of those around you - would you have even been as close to enlightenment as you now are? - I mean to forgive lousy parents makes you a better soul does it not? - well in some cases - my siblings are all rubber souls - they have no understanding of what was done to them and where they do - they have no forgiveness - so - that is a lonely feeling - as you know - however - to have had loving parents who supported me as a child and young adult - what would I know today? so = in this movie loving mother or not - it was time to move on - we are not our parents property although they might believe differently - and how come this house was so cluttered like a hoarders home - messy mom messy kid - places needed a lit match. By now the moon is one big hunk of junk with this lot living there.
It's another mystic tower of basic technology (in this case old tvs) piled on top of each other making strange "techno" babble sound with a small satellite dish (instead of the usual colander or the family tv antenna) which somehow does "something" it was never designed to do. (It was only missing last years Christmas tree lights.) Arty media students with limited budgets can't do anything that looks even close to something that looks real. More like a 1964 episode of Doctor Who.
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Hi there! I'm Monique Mulcahy, director of 'Man in the Moon'. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about the film, feel free to leave a comment with any questions or comments :) Enjoy!
I love this stuff. Can we have a sequel
what does it mean ? movie about what...?
Hi! Great! The film held my attention all the time.
I would have added at the beginning - the radio starts to hiss. The woman thinks the radio is broken . But then, through the hissing, she hears a child's voice singing. (this is her little son)
She has a flashback .The little son is playing with toys and humming this song. (further along the script).
And the finale- the radio hissed. She runs up and hears this song again . )))
That was very good indeed, Monique. Well done!!
☝️😎
yes a sequel
Wow. Son trying to be obedient and helpful until he left. And calling home. So touching
Amazing how powerful the words "are you there" can be with the right storytelling!
The pile of e-waste that the kids made looks suspiciously like my storage closet. Time to take care of it before my kids disappear on me.
In the late 80's there was a syndicated TV series called War of the Worlds. It was a continuation of the 1953 film and 1938 radio broadcast. The aliens didn't die. from disease They went into protective hibernation. Their technological concepts were so advanced, everything they built looked like a pile of trash that made no sense. For example, a radio might've been made using a toaster and an egg beater
Teen taking the flying out of the nest, to a whole new level! Love it! 🖤
Wow I said the same
with all the junk in the house..
The visual effect was remarkable, audio engineering was very well done (the finishing hook was beautiful), good acting, but I was most impressed by the lighting. So many choices to make, and every single one seemed perfect. I watched it twice. Thank you for that.
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That was way cooler than I expected! The smile on the mom's face at the end made the whole thing perfect.
As a mother she is not just afraid for herself, but more importantly for her son
The production is absolutley top notch but I don't know what this is all about.
Wow, what a natural Pauline Grace! Bravo madam. Loved the inclusion of a table fan in the apparatus.
Good ending with the radio. Lincoln saying , "Hey there " to Mum.
The story builds upon modern fears parents have of losing their children to the mysteries and evils of technology. The information going into the minds of young adults is constant and in many cases, not what parents wish them to be absorbing. Yes, it's common for teens to eventually fly the coop, but more and more of them are unknowingly destroying their wings before they make the leap. Good flic...
Magnificent short film. Have a good trip Lincoln. 🌜📺🚀📻🌛
Aussie SciFi is awesome!!
Very well done. Kept me locked into the story the whole way through. Hope to see a part 2 of this. Great job Monique
I would’ve never gave up my TV if we had things like this on it I enjoy all the short movies that you guys put out well done good taste too bad TV don’t take you guys on
Im going to give this a thumbs up for the suspense, music, and mother's acting, but I have no clue what I just watched.
Great short, I got a "phone home" vibe at the end. Thank you.
Gripping. Excellent acting. Had me hooked to the end.
My wife wonders why I watch sci-fi shorts when so many are a letdown. It's to find Jem's like this!
The videography was too notch. The pacing perfect. Acting was great. I liked everything about it. I don't like much, so for what's worth, consider this hi praise ;)
- That was pretty creepy. And cool. My favourite part was the frogs singing.
Enjoyed it…agree that a sequel would be nice…this story could be taken literally but could also be a metaphor for a mother dealing with the death of a child….interesting to see which way it would go
i'd say more like growing up and leaving home with the contact at the end being the infrequent calls a newly free young adult makes to their parents.
Throughout the film the moon stays in the same position in the sky.
Did you know that the moon we see in the southern hemisphere is upside down to the moon in the northern hemisphere? But most of the best pictures of the moon are taken in America, Europe and Asia. So when you see a nice picture of the moon in a show made in the southern hemisphere, the image you see is most likely from a northern hemisphere source.
Def one of Dust's best!
Another story that inspires me to write and film more
This could be a perfect scifi/horror movie. I want more!
Thats good ,ive been watching dust all morning .one show in i was hooked.,well been actually watching dust for the past couple years now.👀📺always watch the new episodes that come out .
Bloody good movie. Thankyou.
I celebrated the collected ambiguities in this rich, short film. At the end, I felt it was ultimately about the woman's loneliness and growing distance from her man child son. She was losing him to his McGyvered technology and video games and ultimately the inexorable maturity. And, to add insult to injury, now the old 'devil moon" was behaving oddly, looming in the sky. Even her trusty old portable radio, her companion while she toiled away on the endless chores of the farm she struggled to maintain, was failing and behaving in a manner that not only wasn't bringing her the programming that kept some of her loneliness at bay out there but was also actually kind of frightening her. And now, in a region where very few people live, a clutch of stranger dashes across an adjacent field! Is she losing it? Maybe . . . Time to call it a day and just wash up and rest a bit. Only things get weirder. She checks on her son be he "isn't there" again and she is gripped with her chronic alienation. and so on. The layers on this film also take us on its scifi journey, too, with the "what the hell is going on???!!" action but from my point of view, it was about her loneliness, ultimately framed when she finally collapsed into a prostrate, sobbing heap on the very ground she had been toiling to hang onto since she'd become a single parent. How a brilliant, cinematic 12 min. can deliver such a package never ceases to thrill me! Thanks for a great moment in my day--if heart wrenching.
well you could read that into it ... being high would help..but AT the end it really was just some cliches without an ending...
PS how did you celebrate ?
@@andrewgalloway7344 With a big smile on my otherwise sad and otherwise overall deeply concerned countenance from following the news these past 3 weeks. I love, love, love movies and have probably watched thousands in my lifetime but maybe only hndrends have managed to give me a chance to get tingly from a well told tale and a well developed character study. Doing that in 12 min., doubly so. Not being high helps me more.
You got it. Well-explained.
This shorfilm was nice and really well done. I loved the atmosphere and the ambient.
From a technical viewpoint it's great.... It's just that I don't find it plausible that he would not offer his mom (and the rest of us) an explanation of what is happening. Supposedly, he went to the moon. But, for what purpose and to what end? Did he leave in order to save the world or just so he could play video games on the moon without his mom's supervision? I prefer stories that don't leave you hanging with no resolution or explanation of what's really happening. Too vague & no real plot.
Welcome to DUST, where every plot no matter how promising is left for you to figure out! Every ending leaves ya hanging! And a whole lotta WTF's left to mull over when the credits begin to roll.
@@vincemartinez171 Correct! Not every story has to have a perfect conclusion. The fun of it is the " well what happened to..." or " why did this person do this". It's kind of like searching for that pot of gold at the rainbows end.
I read it as a hallucination in the woman's mind. Sick of dem kids cutting through her field, dumping der electric trash. Done took care of 'em, buried 'em at the end.
Thanks for sharing.
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Well done my friend very entertaining keep up the good work 👍
I just discovered this and this is awesome
BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏
Bravo🌹👏👏👏🏆
PLEASE Stay 'safe', everyone❣️
Blessed be ✨💫🌟🌛🌹🌜
Takes running away from home to a new level.
Certified Gold!!!!!
i have so many questions
Very well done - kept me transfixed throughout! Perfectly acted, filmed, the bare-bones story, even the rural location and production design. Kudos to @Monique Mulcahy and the whole team! 👏🏻👏🏻
Wow! That gave me goosebumps! ❤
Laughing and crying...........man.✨
That was great!
I had a dream that i went to the moon and inside it when i was little lol:) weird red carpet too
Amazing film! Wow.... just wow!
A unique vid by Monique🤓🤔🤗❗ . I was not impressed with the sons departure. A son who TRULY LOVED his mother would have kept her in the loop, not so evasive with his ultimate plan.
As I stated, this was a unique vid that was truly well done👍😁😁 in every aspect !!😎 The mother's reaction to the " disappearance of her secretive son was excellent, you could "feel" her immediate reaction to the loss of her loved one and her apparent acceptance were both portrayed wonderfully!! An all around tight vid that ran us through the gamut of emotions that I really enjoyed ! Well done, Monique, and that's my "critique" 👍👍🙄😬😁😎
I can honestly say one of the best short si-fi's I have seen in a long time. Great storyline, great acting the emotions from the mother seemed truly heart felt and the twist of the revamped aerial for home comfort contact made it a great ending. Well done.
Amazing!...
I like this a lot!
Reminds me of Star Trek's City on the Edge of Forever (1967) when Mr. Spock had to build an interface to their tri-corder out of vacuum tubes!
Excellent insight. Thank you so much for your hard work. Please continue making these videos.
I live in an old library. I wish someone would do a film about me becoming a ghost so I can stay here for ever.
I liked this. A good bit of sci-fi suspence. I think it would make for a good series or longer film.
Brilliant work! Had a sense of "Childhood's End" and "Knowing". Thoroughly engaging!
Really kept my attention. Thought it was going to be a bit cliché sci-fi, but it surprised me! Good job! Lightning and sounds were awesome! Just seems like there could easily be a sequel.
Contact meets Stranger Things - could be a new tv series for the summer.
Found it dry. Great actors but it fell short from what DUST usually has on the channel.
Great piece of work. Simple and effective. You get everything you need right at the start to setup back story, a good pace and then the punchline delivered at the end. Superb. Great storytelling. Thank you.
Hope I'm right
But us Aussies make the best movies. 👌
Great! Perfectly told story.
Well Done! 😎
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Too obscure to be enjoyable.
Good job on the theme. Interesting, though. He didn't want to communicate with his mother from near but now want to talk with her FROM the moon? I guess after he realize the reality of it all. Human beings are strange.
Love it
Wow this was seriously good. Loved it.
Suspenseful
So well done, let's see some more! 👍👍
Outstanding!
Well done, enjoyed it.
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Awesome - so well done.
Given that a full moon can never be visible until after sunset, I would have been much more worried about it being visible *in the afternoon* that what my son was doing. Of course, then it randomly becomes crescent at end.
Wonderful
Don't beam me up yet Scotty I'm taking a shh....
Hey she deserves an explanation
It felt intentionally vague for the purposes of the plot. There should have either been some better explanation from the son that still could leave some mystery or generate more questions or provide the viewer with a feeling of awe or wonder or "something larger" vs. this sense that the plot called for a lot of really vague phrases that didn't say anything because they were crafted for that very purpose. In other words, it didn't feel like genuine dialogue.
That being said, it's an interesting premise but probably could have used a bit more leading up to the mother feeling like something was off. As it was, that also felt a bit forced, like she was noticing things for the sake of the story instead of putting things together that were, in fact, real odd. The comment from her about the moon just felt out of place. The fact that her radio was on the fritz just didn't connect it to the moon well enough that it should be anything significant to the mother.
Bottom line. Great short, very enjoyable
Well done. Loved it!
DUST is better than Black Mirror.
Its me or a lot of the short have open ending. the bad side of the open ending is that we will never know what happened after.
Cynical me: "Food's here", said one of the lizard men.
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That was a different one. It was almost like a story with no beginning and no end, just 12.5 minutes of middle...
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No matter the son's experiment, goal or final purpose, he should have let his mother in on what was being planned, not just go on some electronic trash pile journey into who knows where! Real people don't do that. He was not possessed to the point of being under a spell so there is a definite disconnect between him, his mother and his purpose. More of an explanation along these lines would help tie the story line together much better for the viewers.
Yeah, the store was weak.
Err, not really.
IRL cults usually isolate their recruits/victims so as to remove emotional support and external voices of reason.
@@joenoneoyobinnes4727 that's what Woodstoney is saying. He wasn't portrayed as being in a false cult. He actually did get sucked away with the device to travel far away in space.
If he told her what was going on, she would've thought he was nuts, called the police, or done some other form of interference. Maybe he was chosen to save manikind, or represent the Earth in a greater interstellar forum?
Welldone.
Great storytelling! :).
So cool! Simple but complex! Keep up the great work. Thank you for this!
Very well done but this idea was done years ago. "The Knowing"
I'm so confused with what happened. Was it an alien abduction? Were they manipulated, coerced, or did they discover some unknown secret of the universe?
Well done!
Nice.
Nice sound. Pauline is Beauty abd great actress
Excellent !! I'm hooked, when does the story continue .....
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Nicely filmed but I wasn't sure it was turning into a horror film or stay sci-fi. Since it didn't elaborate on the journey, I thought it was a few minutes too long so I blipped through half of it in 5-sec jumps without missing any of the story. Also it was nice to see the instantly recognisable Australian landscape - Victoria or Tas?
Probably Victoria. I'm in south Australia
Thanks for commenting, we shot on a farm in Taggerty Victoria. The scenery is truly beautiful in that region.
🙌🏽
constant reminders for people who did not have loving parents - the pain of the dysfunctional parents who inflicted their "issues" on the innocent children - and yet - my fellow victims - I give you this thought - if they had not been such poor role models that in turn caused you to work so hard at being better and more loving and kind and driven to search the soul and souls of those around you - would you have even been as close to enlightenment as you now are? - I mean to forgive lousy parents makes you a better soul does it not? - well in some cases - my siblings are all rubber souls - they have no understanding of what was done to them and where they do - they have no forgiveness - so - that is a lonely feeling - as you know - however - to have had loving parents who supported me as a child and young adult - what would I know today? so = in this movie loving mother or not - it was time to move on - we are not our parents property although they might believe differently - and how come this house was so cluttered like a hoarders home - messy mom messy kid - places needed a lit match. By now the moon is one big hunk of junk with this lot living there.
Veeeeery similar to an episode of Eureka. A few episodes, actually, since the story arc was pretty long.
"Can you hear me now?"
Amazing Story 👍👍
YES!
A combination of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and the "ET". The son's demeanor was extremely disturbing.
Thing about short film is that you crave for more.
It's another mystic tower of basic technology (in this case old tvs) piled on top of each other making strange "techno" babble sound with a small satellite dish (instead of the usual colander or the family tv antenna) which somehow does "something" it was never designed to do. (It was only missing last years Christmas tree lights.) Arty media students with limited budgets can't do anything that looks even close to something that looks real. More like a 1964 episode of Doctor Who.
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I Say, "Good RIDDANCE"!! and there'll be TRUE Peace on EARTH!!
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