When the spaceship blew up, it caused a rip in space-time. There is only 1 astronaut onboard. Whenever a mistake is made another version of the astronaut manifests at the moment the ship blew up: the first attempt failed and he died on impact, the second attempt had a successful landing, but he touched the dead body (i.e. a time-travelling version of himself), which resulted in a temporal paradox, but was resolved when the third version of himself crash landed on top of the second guy, killing both. In the end we see numerous bodies at the crash site. There is also an old man who is presumably the astronaut with the "successful" timeline. He appears to be terraforming the planet (potentially the mission all along) and right as he seems to be running out of steam, a younger version of himself parachutes in. Neither of them seem to be confused, instead the young man helps with the "terraforming", but he isn't doing it the right way so the old man slaps him down, resulting in a new iteration of the temporal "loop". The problem is that the old man is wearing what appears to be a hospital bracelet and the younger version that shows up to help him is wearing a hospital gown, which are very out of place and hard to explain other than this is all the result of a mental illness. There are similarities to Groundhog Day, but the world is not resetting, just the astronaut, and it's also not a 24-hour loop like Groundhog Day. It's also worth noting that the survivor (second guy) is freaked out that the dead guy looks exactly like him, but if they were on the same space ship they should already know of each other's existence and should only be upset about losing a friend, however, he is scared and has to touch him to see if he is actually real. Another oddity is that he cannot breathe the atmosphere initially, but then is fine as an old man (perhaps because the terraforming has worked).
If it has to be explained, then it was shit storytelling. Seriously. If the film you made need to be explained at its most basic level... you fucked up. We're not talking end of "2001:Space Odyssey", what the fuck happened? We're talking what the fuck is going on: Beginning, Middle and End.... what did I just watch? Don't ever waste my time again.
From a filming perspective, the fall to the surface was amazing! Did someone actually skydive wearing the helmet and suit to get some of those shots?? The editing made for a wild and very believable ride!
You know what I like about these short films? For one, they are very well made for independent creations; not your typical high school badly edited stuff. Secondly, they often present one idea and don't pad it up with meaningless stuff. Being short, you can watch one, generally around 10 minutes, and reflect on it for 2 hours. Unlike your typical mindless movies that you watch for two hours then forget in 10 minutes.
Looking at the comment section, I realized that's what separates sci-fi fans. It could be ridiculous, it could be impossible, and it may not make a complete sense. But the more you watch it, the more you start to make sense out of nothing. A lot of people did not get it and it also does not make that much sense. But if you are a really a sci-fi fan and watch movies like these it definitely makes sense. The point is, watch dust movies and upgrade yourself. Awesome movie.
I had no clue what this was all about, but after reading some of the comments I am reminded of the multiple iterations of the crashed lifepod in the desert in The Chronicle of the Fallers.
How I love it to read all these comments here. It is a recovery for me to see that people can be honest and are brave enough to confess they do not get the messages of some storys. And what is more ...others give a mature hint or explanation and do not laugh about other people. THIS is the human being I believe the long film "Living on earth" can be go further a long time without war....and if they want war they'll find a solution in paintball or something.... Greets from Germany 🤝🙄
🔵 That is the age-old asinine concept of "Might makes right", you are maintaining that these type of differences and confrontations can be rectified through violence rather than through concepts of Justice and moral righteousness. What if the leader of one country was a woman of small stature and the leader of the opposing country was 6-foot & 260 lb, would that make the stronger of the two "Right".....Whatta-PUTZ!
The film is a metaphore. Corpses are his failures, as he failed at different stages in his attempts. He has a whole planet- his whole life- ahead of him. The old him has sown an entire planet worth of grass, but only after he had mastered his life.
I think you are right. The root clue is that every time he touches another iteration of himself, it causes a temporal paradox and spawns a new split in the timeline. The smock and seeds can be explained as supplies salvaged from wrecked portions of the ship. I have no idea what the levitation at the end implies other than possible enlightenment in that he now understands his position, or possible that he has been doing this for so long (tens of millions of years) that has reached ascension?
I have another possible intent by the writer. Allow me to give a stab at this. I am brand new to Dust and am hooked although I must admit I have understood very little of each short I have reviewed so far. This one intrigues me though so I will give her a go! There are only 2 actors in this story (per the credits). One plays the younger "astronaut" and the other plays the old man, so this kinda fits with my explanation of the story that follows. The story teaches that beings (humans or other-worldly beings) must gain knowledge to survive on their "assigned" terra firma. We are borne, as in a newborn, or as represented by the astronauts descending to a new terra firma from their crippled spacecraft, just like a newborn enters life from relative comfort to a rather harsh and uninviting new "atmosphere". They are (if all goes according to plan) nurtured and taught by those that bore them. Lying on their backs, turning over, crawling, walking, then running. Baby steps. The writer concentrates on only one astronaut (because this is a short story, right?!), and he is shown entering this new world. He hits terra firma and dies for his lack of knowledge of even knowing how to deploy his parachute (which he instinctively learned to do as we will see later (we see this in a flashback). Trying to teach him another lesson, the parachute riser mysteriously self-destructs, plunging the soul to his death. He may have even had a secondary emergency chute but was too ignorant to even deploy it. He dies as a result. The Greater Lifeforce in Charge (GLC) of this terra firma gives the astronaut another chance to survive by learning. We see him lying close to his first deceased self. We see this "second chance" soul's helmet start to heat up, smoke, and fracture at the faceplate (hot "sun"?). This "second chance" soul realizes this no-win situation so he goes into yet another learning mode by trying to figure out how to get his helmet off, even though the atmosphere may not support his life. He is ignorant in this regard to and must learn. He learns to remove his own helmet by quickly exploring the helmet of his "first chance" soul (they are one and the same). He quickly learns how to remove the helmet of his "first chance" soul by exploring it, which he learns. But he is still ignorant and must learn more. After removing his own cracked helmet he gasps for air (or whatever he breathes) because he was ignorant of the type of atmosphere into which he was abruptly placed. He promptly realizes his hope for life lies in reconnecting his helmet to his life-sustaining space suit. We see him look over at his deceased "first chance" self, realizes it is really himself he sees, freaks out, and back-pedals away in horror. He has failed again in this regard, but he did learn (you can't breath that atmosphere without your helmet and its supply of oxygen, or whatever?), although not quite as much as the GLC would have him learn. So as he failed, he died for a second time. How? When he reached over to touch his first failed self, he has a memory flashback (still learning) to his terrible ordeal of ejecting out of his crippled ship and falling toward terra firma without a clue as to how to save himself. Remember his screaming a flailing hopelessly as he tumbles downward. Really?... a well-trained pilot? Well, the GLC demands he learn all over again on the GLC's world. As he's plunging down, he learns by groping around for any means to save himself. That means was the parachute ripcord, which he instinctively pulled (at least the GLC graced him that tidbit). He was probably trained to do this in "flight school" if his automatic parachute deployment system failed, which it probably had. Well, "school was out" for this "first chance" ignorant soul, and his "second chance" ignorant soul as well. The writer allows him to die by plunging his first-chance self, with flailing unopened shute, directly on top of his failed "second-chance" self (all and the same, see?). The next scene shows an old man, who has probably worked at learning how to plant for a long time, using baby steps. We see him plowing the dry earth up with his bare hands, and planting some type of beans or seeds, near already well-cultivate greens. He has learned this technique to provide food, grass, etc. for his new terra firma. He has a hospital type ID bracelet on his sun-baked wrist. He now "belongs" to this terra firma as a learned worker, as required by the GLC. He is part of a team now, and the wristband identifies him as such. We then see the old learned worker (with a rather simple job description) turn around in time to see the second "failed" soul given yet another chance to learn. Even the "new guy" is part of the same team as shown by an identical ID bracelet as the old man is wearing. The writer allows us to identify this "third chance" soul by the orange parachute descending behind him (the same parachute he failed in when he first ejected down to terra firma). For his next try at learning, he watches the old man work and learns how to till the soil with his bare hands. Easy he thinks!. Now I'll grab a hand-full of those beans and lay them in the soil and cover them over just like the old man did. The old man wryly observes. Wrong!! You are doing it wrong, not learning correctly, and you are certainly, therefore, going to mess this up (the old man is saying to himself)! With that, the old man slaps the hastily-grabbed beans out the "third-chance" astronaut's hand. The astronaut fails in this third lesson too, so he is ascendingly removed from that lesson, and perhaps set up for more "lessons", until he learns how to cope with his new environment, just like a newborn must learn here on our terra firma. Okay, my brain is wasted, it's late, and I must retire to rejuvenate my brain cells. THE END
One of those shorts where you have to do multiple viewings to get a sense of what is going on. So although it's only 7 minutes long, you probably end up watching an hour of it to get meaning! Great for the view counts that is for sure. For me, as with many of these hard to understand shorts, I enjoyed the production values, ambience, setting etc. It was very watchable, I just wish I was more intelligent to be able to interpret faster!!
You know, I started binging Dust after seeing two episodes that were so awesome. They made sense, and you could imagine the plot or have a general idea. There was a beginning and even though no real end, there was a logical conclusion to them. Now the more videos I watch, the more I realise those two were specials cause none of these feels satisfying to watch. Awesomely done, welll produced, intriguing ... but satisfying? Not at all. I wish you guys did at least ONE full video of something.
Thank you I feel the same way. When I first found dust, I watched some killer sci-fi shorts. Then the more I watched, the more I thought wtf is going on here. But I keep watching to find those awesome shorts I do get and love the cgi, animation and stop motion videos. Dust is like an extremely long version of Black Mirror.
Dust is my new favorite channel. I love the short films, but this one doesn’t explain enough. Like how was the old man surviving? Was the old man the same guy? Why were they in hospital gowns? What are these seeds and where did they come from since the ship is completely demolished? Why did the guy start floating a minute after the old man whacked his hand, and why did he float upwards if he hit him horizontally? The other versions of the guy didn’t float away to reset or whatever. Are the planets all copies of each other (bc it kinda looks that way), and do the copies of the planets show that these are parallel planets? So many more questions! I can usually put the more mysterious films together but this one didn’t explain anything or show anything to explain something. Could have been a lot better...
Well, most short films are being made, just to catch the attention of film companies about skills. One skill can be story telling. Another skill can be visualisation, pure camerawork, or special effects, etc etc etc. There is no need for such a (promotion) short to get all qualities together. There is the need to show what kind of specialisation you can offer ...
In the first part we see a guy falling and falling again in a place where there is enough oxygen for fire but not enough to breathe. In the second part we see the same guy, older, in a place where there is enough oxygen to breathe and another planet configuration in the sky. As we can see in the end of the second part he found the way to fly from a planet to the other but maybe not the way to escape from those planets. In the third part we see again the first place with more guys on the floor. That let think that there is a unique time direction (however the same action is repeating again and again), really two different places and a lot of guys being safe. (Maybe, maybe not.)
Not that I understood it any more than anyone else, but the thing that drove me crazy is the seed he's sowing. Despite the fields of grass you see, that isn't grass seed. It's too big - more like a bean seed. In other words, my mind had to grab on to a small detail since it couldn't make sense of the story itself.
Maybe this is the artsy way of expressing the mind of a crazy person in an asylum. He thinks he's an astronaut and repeats the story of how he landed on that planet again and again. But years pass and it's still the same story.
He has a lesson to learn (whatever it is) by repeating his actions over and over again until he gets it right. He makes it as far as the old man slowly making furrows with his fingers and planting seeds (the old man is him aged) and then he screws up by speedily making finger furrows. The old himself slaps his hand with the seeds in an act of correction and he gets sent back to when he first came to after crash landing.
My own theory is that it's not a crash-landing. They're deliberately sent to land on that planet on a kind of brute terraformation project. Those aren't time copies but actual clones. Hence the child-like innocence. They're copies of one man sent over and over and over until a particular planet is terraformed. You can gauge their progress by the demarcation between the desert and the planted area. They're kind of like seeds being sown. Some die immediately on impact (hence the dead bodies at the landing site), some live to make the land a little bit greener.
It fits what we see, but if that's the case whom ever has been sending these clones to Terraform the planet died out a long time ago from their own stupidity.
Angry Kittens But then why do we see a space ship explode in the beginning, if that's of no significance? Why does the glass of the helmet of the last iteration break exactly the same way as that of the first (second?), and he comes to at the exact same time? Why does the guy get lifted of his feet when he messes up with planting the seeds, and then we cut back to the beginning? Why do we see these details if they're irrelevant?
The planet must be traveling with the speed of light which means that as soon as you enter in it's atmosphere time stops for you which means you will be at many places at the same time. Firstly the astronaut landed on a place where his helmet broke but before he could get awake again he landed on the planet but at some other place because of the revolution and rotation of the planet but this time he landed on a place where his helmet didn't broke .then the astronaut who landed first got awake and saw that his helmet was broken so he took the helmet of the astronaut who landed afterwards like this he killed himself then the time again repeated and he again fell .the one who survived wearing the helmet of the other one adapted himself and learnt to farm there after spending these much years he understood that one day the time will again repeated and he will again come on the planet but he was living in hope that one day people will come from earth and rescue him but they didn't so when the time repeated itself and he came to start farming he saw his own older self and the old man hitted him because he knew that there was no need of hope no one was gonna come to save him (or them)
Thank G'd, we always have a smart indian on internet to put clair the intriguing things for us! hahaha! Thank you, Devansh! It's make all sense to me and is a very good explanation!
That just leaves out the explanation on how a planet can rotate at the speed of light, why would any spaceship even come close & how would any organized matter (us, plants, etc) would remain the same anywhere near it (let alone on it). Imagination is a wonderfull thing & the explanation is great but ya... it wouldn't work. But then again Arthur C. Clarke did say that 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' soooo...
It seems like that astronaut couldn't sustain (breathe) in that planet , but his 'own older self' was farming all the time without any suit & helmet. How? May be he adapted to the conditions but is it possible? Or may be it's his hallucination. But the film is amazing👏
I think the old man wants to get rid of all the failures that are falling on the planet. Because when he slapped the guys hand, he disappeared, they are not allowed to touch eachother, so the young guy ascended and the old guy can continue his work. The old guy could be a succesfull version of the younger guy and he just wants to get rid of them. And maybe the old guy is in reality on earth in a hospital, maybe in coma or in some weird mental state and in his mind he is living this situation on another planet.
I think of Schrödinger's cat thought experiment when I watch this film . This is what happens when you apply the rules of quantum mechanics to everyday objects. Basically the astronaut is the “cat” in the experiment. He is both alive and dead, old and young, and many other possible states at the same time. It is only in observing the astronaut. Does he appear in any one state or the other.
I find it very difficult to believe that a planet that has a dry surface so devoid of moisture it's not going to grow anything, yet is clearly delineated by a line on the other side of which is greenery, which implies rainfall. Also, have 0 clue what this was about or its intended meaning.
If this made any sense, I missed it. after reading the comments, I think that the people commenting on what they think happened have more creativity than the person that wrote the script.
I had a similar experience. Man's struggles to reach godhood, learning from our past mistakes, until we finally attain the pinnacle. Yet when we try to prove our competence and that we are as HIM, we only show HIM that we are not ready, we are too impatient and ignorant (the speedy disjointed scrabbling in the dirt and doing so from the "dead" side of the ground). When the man grabs a handful of seeds to plant them in the soil HE smacks his hand away in rejection: how can you bring forth life from death? This rejection sends the man back to square one. To toil through, struggle back towards that godhead, until the day we do get it right and can join in. :) My take on it.
Can one man possibly make a difference, even in a thousand lifetimes? Even if the rest of your life were laid out before you, could you change the outcome? Would you make the same mistakes? How would you even know the difference? Would your sacrifice be worthy, or simply waste of yet another life? Could you live with yourself knowing what you'd done? Perhaps you're like poor Sísuphos, condemned to repeat your mistakes for all eternity...
This is my humble take on this somber tale. It truly saddens me reading just how many other viewers of this approached it literally, with such a profound story right below the surface...
The opening scene & the fall were amazing from a visual perspective. The short itself was somewhat confusing w/little to no explanation. Leaving it entirely up to the viewer to create their own story. I found it interesting nonetheless.
Although the explanation of @Electric Cervix holds up for a lot, this movie still is too vague for my taste. The motive of repeated landings and meetings with himself is taken from Peter F Hamilton, who introduced it several years ago in one of his books in de Void trilogy or Chronicle of the Fallers trilogy (can't remember which book).
When the spaceship blew up, it caused a rip in space-time. There is only 1 astronaut onboard. Whenever a mistake is made another version of the astronaut manifests at the moment the ship blew up: the first attempt failed and he died on impact, the second attempt had a successful landing, but he touched the dead body (i.e. a time-travelling version of himself), which resulted in a temporal paradox, but was resolved when the third version of himself crash landed on top of the second guy, killing both. In the end we see numerous bodies at the crash site. There is also an old man who is presumably the astronaut with the "successful" timeline. He appears to be terraforming the planet (potentially the mission all along) and right as he seems to be running out of steam, a younger version of himself parachutes in. Neither of them seem to be confused, instead the young man helps with the "terraforming", but he isn't doing it the right way so the old man slaps him down, resulting in a new iteration of the temporal "loop".
The problem is that the old man is wearing what appears to be a hospital bracelet and the younger version that shows up to help him is wearing a hospital gown, which are very out of place and hard to explain other than this is all the result of a mental illness.
There are similarities to Groundhog Day, but the world is not resetting, just the astronaut, and it's also not a 24-hour loop like Groundhog Day.
It's also worth noting that the survivor (second guy) is freaked out that the dead guy looks exactly like him, but if they were on the same space ship they should already know of each other's existence and should only be upset about losing a friend, however, he is scared and has to touch him to see if he is actually real. Another oddity is that he cannot breathe the atmosphere initially, but then is fine as an old man (perhaps because the terraforming has worked).
Excellent theory.
Great break down 😊
If it has to be explained, then it was shit storytelling.
Seriously. If the film you made need to be explained at its most basic level... you fucked up.
We're not talking end of "2001:Space Odyssey", what the fuck happened?
We're talking what the fuck is going on: Beginning, Middle and End.... what did I just watch?
Don't ever waste my time again.
Electric Cervix, excellent name! Oh, and good explanation. Thanks! I'm drunk. Have a good night!
hmmm you didn't just happen to have something to do with making this work did you ?
I watched this video and saw Dog. He was wagging his tail. Dog is love.
From a filming perspective, the fall to the surface was amazing! Did someone actually skydive wearing the helmet and suit to get some of those shots?? The editing made for a wild and very believable ride!
No, there is no air resistance like a skydiver would experience. The dude was probably attached by strings in front of a chroma key
You kinda know it's green screen, but it's still done so much better than most big hollywood movies. Much respect!
Dat old man hasn't a clue about spacing seeds, hadn't life taught him anything??? 😆
You know what I like about these short films? For one, they are very well made for independent creations; not your typical high school badly edited stuff. Secondly, they often present one idea and don't pad it up with meaningless stuff. Being short, you can watch one, generally around 10 minutes, and reflect on it for 2 hours. Unlike your typical mindless movies that you watch for two hours then forget in 10 minutes.
he he he - He's gonna terraform the whole planet by hand
Dust, you'd make Rod Serling, proud, promoting great pieces of fiction and get these great stories out.
Looking at the comment section, I realized that's what separates sci-fi fans. It could be ridiculous, it could be impossible, and it may not make a complete sense. But the more you watch it, the more you start to make sense out of nothing. A lot of people did not get it and it also does not make that much sense. But if you are a really a sci-fi fan and watch movies like these it definitely makes sense. The point is, watch dust movies and upgrade yourself. Awesome movie.
Damn. This show is so deep I can't even see it anymore.
The falls where the parachute wouldn’t open were terrifying. Good job!
I had no clue what this was all about, but after reading some of the comments I am reminded of the multiple iterations of the crashed lifepod in the desert in The Chronicle of the Fallers.
How I love it to read all these comments here.
It is a recovery for me to see that people can be honest and are brave enough to confess they do not get the messages of some storys.
And what is more ...others give a mature hint or explanation and do not laugh about other people.
THIS is the human being I believe the long film "Living on earth" can be go further a long time without war....and if they want war they'll find a solution in paintball or something....
Greets from Germany 🤝🙄
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Super Meinung. Bitte, mache daraus auch noch die Weltpolitik. das müssen wirklich die Männer.
the problem of improper distribution of resources that leads to war is an inherent human problem. we are not evolved enough to live without war.
🔵 That is the age-old asinine concept of "Might makes right", you are maintaining that these type of differences and confrontations can be rectified through violence rather than through concepts of Justice and moral righteousness.
What if the leader of one country was a woman of small stature and the leader of the opposing country was 6-foot & 260 lb, would that make the stronger of the two "Right".....Whatta-PUTZ!
Wow 195 ep. This show will make you rethink life.
The film is a metaphore. Corpses are his failures, as he failed at different stages in his attempts. He has a whole planet- his whole life- ahead of him. The old him has sown an entire planet worth of grass, but only after he had mastered his life.
Does metaphore mean pile of crap?
@@tomthx5804 you can say shit, we're adults here
I think you are right. The root clue is that every time he touches another iteration of himself, it causes a temporal paradox and spawns a new split in the timeline. The smock and seeds can be explained as supplies salvaged from wrecked portions of the ship. I have no idea what the levitation at the end implies other than possible enlightenment in that he now understands his position, or possible that he has been doing this for so long (tens of millions of years) that has reached ascension?
I watched the entire thing, but feel stupid not getting it. Not even a clue...
Seems to be some kind of time loop thingie.. he's meeting himself over and over?
The guy is cute but I didn't get the fact that it was the same person he took the helmet off, my bad I suppose.
clone brothers . their ship crashed . hallucinations. something like that. sms
The old guy has the same band around his arm so I guess he's supposed to be the first/original to arrive...
this video is just like "Naked" movie
Very disturbing. His own personal hell. Very well done!!
This was beyond my level of understanding.
I have another possible intent by the writer. Allow me to give a stab at this. I am brand new to Dust and am hooked although I must admit I have understood very little of each short I have reviewed so far. This one intrigues me though so I will give her a go!
There are only 2 actors in this story (per the credits). One plays the younger "astronaut" and the other plays the old man, so this kinda fits with my explanation of the story that follows. The story teaches that beings (humans or other-worldly beings) must gain knowledge to survive on their "assigned" terra firma. We are borne, as in a newborn, or as represented by the astronauts descending to a new terra firma from their crippled spacecraft, just like a newborn enters life from relative comfort to a rather harsh and uninviting new "atmosphere". They are (if all goes according to plan) nurtured and taught by those that bore them. Lying on their backs, turning over, crawling, walking, then running. Baby steps. The writer concentrates on only one astronaut (because this is a short story, right?!), and he is shown entering this new world. He hits terra firma and dies for his lack of knowledge of even knowing how to deploy his parachute (which he instinctively learned to do as we will see later (we see this in a flashback). Trying to teach him another lesson, the parachute riser mysteriously self-destructs, plunging the soul to his death. He may have even had a secondary emergency chute but was too ignorant to even deploy it. He dies as a result. The Greater Lifeforce in Charge (GLC) of this terra firma gives the astronaut another chance to survive by learning. We see him lying close to his first deceased self. We see this "second chance" soul's helmet start to heat up, smoke, and fracture at the faceplate (hot "sun"?). This "second chance" soul realizes this no-win situation so he goes into yet another learning mode by trying to figure out how to get his helmet off, even though the atmosphere may not support his life. He is ignorant in this regard to and must learn. He learns to remove his own helmet by quickly exploring the helmet of his "first chance" soul (they are one and the same). He quickly learns how to remove the helmet of his "first chance" soul by exploring it, which he learns. But he is still ignorant and must learn more. After removing his own cracked helmet he gasps for air (or whatever he breathes) because he was ignorant of the type of atmosphere into which he was abruptly placed. He promptly realizes his hope for life lies in reconnecting his helmet to his life-sustaining space suit. We see him look over at his deceased "first chance" self, realizes it is really himself he sees, freaks out, and back-pedals away in horror. He has failed again in this regard, but he did learn (you can't breath that atmosphere without your helmet and its supply of oxygen, or whatever?), although not quite as much as the GLC would have him learn. So as he failed, he died for a second time. How? When he reached over to touch his first failed self, he has a memory flashback (still learning) to his terrible ordeal of ejecting out of his crippled ship and falling toward terra firma without a clue as to how to save himself. Remember his screaming a flailing hopelessly as he tumbles downward. Really?... a well-trained pilot? Well, the GLC demands he learn all over again on the GLC's world. As he's plunging down, he learns by groping around for any means to save himself. That means was the parachute ripcord, which he instinctively pulled (at least the GLC graced him that tidbit). He was probably trained to do this in "flight school" if his automatic parachute deployment system failed, which it probably had. Well, "school was out" for this "first chance" ignorant soul, and his "second chance" ignorant soul as well. The writer allows him to die by plunging his first-chance self, with flailing unopened shute, directly on top of his failed "second-chance" self (all and the same, see?). The next scene shows an old man, who has probably worked at learning how to plant for a long time, using baby steps. We see him plowing the dry earth up with his bare hands, and planting some type of beans or seeds, near already well-cultivate greens. He has learned this technique to provide food, grass, etc. for his new terra firma. He has a hospital type ID bracelet on his sun-baked wrist. He now "belongs" to this terra firma as a learned worker, as required by the GLC. He is part of a team now, and the wristband identifies him as such. We then see the old learned worker (with a rather simple job description) turn around in time to see the second "failed" soul given yet another chance to learn. Even the "new guy" is part of the same team as shown by an identical ID bracelet as the old man is wearing. The writer allows us to identify this "third chance" soul by the orange parachute descending behind him (the same parachute he failed in when he first ejected down to terra firma). For his next try at learning, he watches the old man work and learns how to till the soil with his bare hands. Easy he thinks!. Now I'll grab a hand-full of those beans and lay them in the soil and cover them over just like the old man did. The old man wryly observes. Wrong!! You are doing it wrong, not learning correctly, and you are certainly, therefore, going to mess this up (the old man is saying to himself)! With that, the old man slaps the hastily-grabbed beans out the "third-chance" astronaut's hand. The astronaut fails in this third lesson too, so he is ascendingly removed from that lesson, and perhaps set up for more "lessons", until he learns how to cope with his new environment, just like a newborn must learn here on our terra firma. Okay, my brain is wasted, it's late, and I must retire to rejuvenate my brain cells. THE END
One of those shorts where you have to do multiple viewings to get a sense of what is going on. So although it's only 7 minutes long, you probably end up watching an hour of it to get meaning! Great for the view counts that is for sure. For me, as with many of these hard to understand shorts, I enjoyed the production values, ambience, setting etc. It was very watchable, I just wish I was more intelligent to be able to interpret faster!!
You know, I started binging Dust after seeing two episodes that were so awesome. They made sense, and you could imagine the plot or have a general idea. There was a beginning and even though no real end, there was a logical conclusion to them.
Now the more videos I watch, the more I realise those two were specials cause none of these feels satisfying to watch. Awesomely done, welll produced, intriguing ... but satisfying? Not at all. I wish you guys did at least ONE full video of something.
Thank you I feel the same way. When I first found dust, I watched some killer sci-fi shorts. Then the more I watched, the more I thought wtf is going on here. But I keep watching to find those awesome shorts I do get and love the cgi, animation and stop motion videos. Dust is like an extremely long version of Black Mirror.
Love the image of the old man terraforming the planet six inches at a time.
Dust is my new favorite channel. I love the short films, but this one doesn’t explain enough. Like how was the old man surviving? Was the old man the same guy? Why were they in hospital gowns? What are these seeds and where did they come from since the ship is completely demolished? Why did the guy start floating a minute after the old man whacked his hand, and why did he float upwards if he hit him horizontally? The other versions of the guy didn’t float away to reset or whatever. Are the planets all copies of each other (bc it kinda looks that way), and do the copies of the planets show that these are parallel planets? So many more questions! I can usually put the more mysterious films together but this one didn’t explain anything or show anything to explain something. Could have been a lot better...
Its called time loop, when you are trapped in the same moment and find/found another you... The old guy is one of you that get out the time loop... :)
Well, most short films are being made, just to catch the attention of film companies about skills. One skill can be story telling. Another skill can be visualisation, pure camerawork, or special effects, etc etc etc. There is no need for such a (promotion) short to get all qualities together. There is the need to show what kind of specialisation you can offer ...
Another excellent film - thank you
Dust: you give us the pictures, we (try to) give you the plot.
Timey wimey - loopey woopey sort of stuff!
I've no idea what they're doing, but the astronaut-farmer man is classically handsome as fuck. ;D
In the first part we see a guy falling and falling again in a place where there is enough oxygen for fire but not enough to breathe. In the second part we see the same guy, older, in a place where there is enough oxygen to breathe and another planet configuration in the sky. As we can see in the end of the second part he found the way to fly from a planet to the other but maybe not the way to escape from those planets. In the third part we see again the first place with more guys on the floor. That let think that there is a unique time direction (however the same action is repeating again and again), really two different places and a lot of guys being safe. (Maybe, maybe not.)
where did the water come from to grow the grass???
Great channel..beats regular tv crap.
That was AWESOME. Seriously.
Thank You Dust
I like the way he takes the helmet off the other astronaught first.
It cracks me up how there are so many more "likes" to this video also.. how is that possible?
I want to see more! It's like a cliffhanger!
3:51 An artist's rendition of my bad luck and me.
Not that I understood it any more than anyone else, but the thing that drove me crazy is the seed he's sowing. Despite the fields of grass you see, that isn't grass seed. It's too big - more like a bean seed. In other words, my mind had to grab on to a small detail since it couldn't make sense of the story itself.
Amazing talent, artistry, vision, excellent cinematography & graphics. glad I found you & subbed!!
Welcome to DUST, Harlem. #getdusted
A bit 2001 and Solaris?
More poetic than a clear storyline is my guess, but liked it. well done
Grounded or Groundhog Day:ed?
Oooh, good one!
midael haglund that was funny lool
GroundedHog Day....
Maybe this is the artsy way of expressing the mind of a crazy person in an asylum.
He thinks he's an astronaut and repeats the story of how he landed on that planet again and again. But years pass and it's still the same story.
GREAT WORK
KEEP 'EM COMING DUST
He has a lesson to learn (whatever it is) by repeating his actions over and over again until he gets it right. He makes it as far as the old man slowly making furrows with his fingers and planting seeds (the old man is him aged) and then he screws up by speedily making finger furrows. The old himself slaps his hand with the seeds in an act of correction and he gets sent back to when he first came to after crash landing.
how many of him are there? i see more bodies on the ground, where do the bodies come from?
maybe some versions of him died on impact?
My own theory is that it's not a crash-landing. They're deliberately sent to land on that planet on a kind of brute terraformation project. Those aren't time copies but actual clones. Hence the child-like innocence. They're copies of one man sent over and over and over until a particular planet is terraformed. You can gauge their progress by the demarcation between the desert and the planted area. They're kind of like seeds being sown. Some die immediately on impact (hence the dead bodies at the landing site), some live to make the land a little bit greener.
It fits what we see, but if that's the case whom ever has been sending these clones to Terraform the planet died out a long time ago from their own stupidity.
Angry Kittens
But then why do we see a space ship explode in the beginning, if that's of no significance? Why does the glass of the helmet of the last iteration break exactly the same way as that of the first (second?), and he comes to at the exact same time? Why does the guy get lifted of his feet when he messes up with planting the seeds, and then we cut back to the beginning? Why do we see these details if they're irrelevant?
Well..that was very imaginative and surreal gripping also..but it was so deep it almost sank
The planet must be traveling with the speed of light which means that as soon as you enter in it's atmosphere time stops for you which means you will be at many places at the same time. Firstly the astronaut landed on a place where his helmet broke but before he could get awake again he landed on the planet but at some other place because of the revolution and rotation of the planet but this time he landed on a place where his helmet didn't broke .then the astronaut who landed first got awake and saw that his helmet was broken so he took the helmet of the astronaut who landed afterwards like this he killed himself then the time again repeated and he again fell .the one who survived wearing the helmet of the other one adapted himself and learnt to farm there after spending these much years he understood that one day the time will again repeated and he will again come on the planet but he was living in hope that one day people will come from earth and rescue him but they didn't so when the time repeated itself and he came to start farming he saw his own older self and the old man hitted him because he knew that there was no need of hope no one was gonna come to save him (or them)
Devansh Kushwaha wow..great👏
Thank G'd, we always have a smart indian on internet to put clair the intriguing things for us! hahaha! Thank you, Devansh! It's make all sense to me and is a very good explanation!
Im going with your explanation ! You solved the puzzle.
Devansh Kushwaha that was great and extremely acurate. Good imagination
That just leaves out the explanation on how a planet can rotate at the speed of light, why would any spaceship even come close & how would any organized matter (us, plants, etc) would remain the same anywhere near it (let alone on it). Imagination is a wonderfull thing & the explanation is great but ya... it wouldn't work. But then again Arthur C. Clarke did say that 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' soooo...
It seems like that astronaut couldn't sustain (breathe) in that planet , but his 'own older self' was farming all the time without any suit & helmet. How?
May be he adapted to the conditions but is it possible?
Or may be it's his hallucination.
But the film is amazing👏
how come the fires are burning if he can't breathe?
Ground hog day in outer space. Neat!
how does he keep his grass so well cut?
In a desert, no less.
Opening graphics were well finessed.
It’s hell, a place that repeats itself over & over...from its original occurrence..
It is a matter of time. All timelines can be at the same time and place! ☺
I think this film. Brings out someone in everyone who watches it. I think it was great. I will think about it for awhile. But in a good way.
Thanks for explaining
Not sure if I would have got it
Glad you do that.
Need more of this. :)
Didn't understand shit, but technically and visually flawless.
I think the old man wants to get rid of all the failures that are falling on the planet. Because when he slapped the guys hand, he disappeared, they are not allowed to touch eachother, so the young guy ascended and the old guy can continue his work. The old guy could be a succesfull version of the younger guy and he just wants to get rid of them. And maybe the old guy is in reality on earth in a hospital, maybe in coma or in some weird mental state and in his mind he is living this situation on another planet.
I want my 7 minutes back
That was... relaxing.
Thank you your sci fi film
Damn! Wish I was smart enough to understand the whole thing... :)
Haha idem dito
So the astronaut is looped in neverending circle of falling, going to haven, geting rejected and geting crushed by his own copy.
You can see 2 bodies ejected from the ship, but you can see 5 of them descending.
Mesmerizing!
Well friend.
Well done for explaining that.
I didn’t have a clue what it was about, and still somewhat frustrated as to the point of the whole thing.
I think of Schrödinger's cat thought experiment when I watch this film . This is what happens when you apply the rules of quantum mechanics to everyday objects. Basically the astronaut is the “cat” in the experiment. He is both alive and dead, old and young, and many other possible states at the same time. It is only in observing the astronaut. Does he appear in any one state or the other.
They're dropping like flies.
all that tech laying around i would have built a new starship
I can say that if you have watched "Predestination" you probably got it.
it's about time
Great video and story. But that's how time travel works.
It was nice to watch. So far I've only watched two films, this one and brain hack. I have subscribed and am looking forward to more.
Welcome to DUST!
brain hack is one of the bests.
I find it very difficult to believe that a planet that has a dry surface so devoid of moisture it's not going to grow anything, yet is clearly delineated by a line on the other side of which is greenery, which implies rainfall. Also, have 0 clue what this was about or its intended meaning.
If this made any sense, I missed it. after reading the comments, I think that the people commenting on what they think happened have more creativity than the person that wrote the script.
great stuff!
Really well made about.....? So many lost opportunities. But I enjoyed it.
I got a biblical vibe. Man doomed to repeat his failures - the frustration of god.
Bibles full of liable.
I had a similar experience. Man's struggles to reach godhood, learning from our past mistakes, until we finally attain the pinnacle. Yet when we try to prove our competence and that we are as HIM, we only show HIM that we are not ready, we are too impatient and ignorant (the speedy disjointed scrabbling in the dirt and doing so from the "dead" side of the ground). When the man grabs a handful of seeds to plant them in the soil HE smacks his hand away in rejection: how can you bring forth life from death? This rejection sends the man back to square one. To toil through, struggle back towards that godhead, until the day we do get it right and can join in. :) My take on it.
You're sick, DUST. Sick, sick, sick.
Can one man possibly make a difference, even in a thousand lifetimes?
Even if the rest of your life were laid out before you, could you change the outcome?
Would you make the same mistakes? How would you even know the difference?
Would your sacrifice be worthy, or simply waste of yet another life?
Could you live with yourself knowing what you'd done?
Perhaps you're like poor Sísuphos, condemned to repeat your mistakes for all eternity...
This is my humble take on this somber tale.
It truly saddens me reading just how many other viewers of this approached it literally, with such a profound story right below the surface...
The opening scene & the fall were amazing from a visual perspective.
The short itself was somewhat confusing w/little to no explanation. Leaving it entirely up to the viewer to create their own story. I found it interesting nonetheless.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get up after the crash!! LOL.. Thanks.. :)
I didn't understand the shit out of it but I liked it anyway. Nice visuals. Well done.
It's the pro editing... Awesome...
I just don't get it.
These films must be very expensive. How do you manage to get those masterpieces done? Were do you get the money from?
Sencillamente extraordinaria.........!
I come to this channel to find a new perspective on life and I leave just more confused
Isn't that a new perspective?
The point of the story is... don't send an easily panicked man into space. He'll be screaming and flailing all the time.
Amazing!
sheesh. Well... really liked this anyway - despite being fairly confusing.
... it makes sense if you don't think about it. 😯😃
Piece of rigging BREAKING!!=Asinine. That Creators put so much effort into such vacuous work, equally so.
so planet travelling to the past over and over.
Quite the mind-bending waste of time. Thanks. DUST videos seems are hit or miss.
Interesting concept
I liked this movie!
This brings up the question since they are alive when they are on that place. Did dead astronaut sow life on that planet?
he's grounded for sure:))
Although the explanation of @Electric Cervix holds up for a lot, this movie still is too vague for my taste. The motive of repeated landings and meetings with himself is taken from Peter F Hamilton, who introduced it several years ago in one of his books in de Void trilogy or Chronicle of the Fallers trilogy (can't remember which book).