SPACEMETERY

Synopsis
Space-cemetery is a film (realistic animation) set in a future time and starts with the waking from stasis of Jess, as her ship’s droid brings news of an urgent message from her former Space Corp Marine and romantic partner Jed. The message uses one of their old secret coded warnings. He is now head of security on an outpost planet she was travelling near to at the time and she agrees to meet up. She discovers he needs a third party to check out a military laboratory space station, as all all security procedures and protocols have suddenly been blocked by his planet’s commander, to protect claims of a ground-breaking genetics discovery. Jed risks all by giving Jess highly restricted access into the Laboratory, which Jess uses and discovers things aren’t as anyone expected. While meeting Jed again Jess hopes to rekindle their relationship, but she finds that time has moved on in mysterious ways.
Unlike traditional space-faring battling heroics sci-fi adventures this is aimed to be hard science fiction with a psychological take on speculative fiction. The sci-fi situation is critical for the story plot twist but it’s been written to have many parallels to today’s world: Self-induced isolation to hide away from the past, trying to rekindle past relationships but things have moved on, human greed and vanity, fear of being abandoned are a few themes within.
The youtube video of this film has been edited to have the script uploaded and then co-ordinated as the timed subtitles with speech relative to the characters in frame, and this has then been manually translated into multiple languages, which is more accurate than the youtube live/automatic options.
This film is almost totally traditional 3D computer animation. There is no AI in this film, except for maybe the voices, which is all the director acting as he can’t afford actors (well the voice changing software claim it’s AI – personally I think it’s saying that to appear cutting edge and I is probably just simple sound engineering using format effects)
Best Animated
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