Sci-Fi Short Film "NOTHING" | DUST
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- čas přidán 27. 12. 2022
- An astronaut returns from a multi-years space travel.
Nothing is about dedication.
Nothing is about a quest for finding a better place to leave.
"NOTHING" by Theo Gottlieb
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"NOTHING" Credits:
Written and directed by Théo Gottlieb
Produced by Hugo Legrand-Nathan, Jiří Heršálek, Théo Gottlieb
Production company Birth and Boogiefilms
With Ilona Fejér Wiss
Original soundtrack by Jonathan Fitas
Director of photography Théo Gottlieb
Editing by Théo Gottlieb
With Barry Abdoul Gadiri, Jaroslava Třečáková, Zuzana Brtonová
Voices of Gabriel Chirouze, Camille Pellicer
Visual effects by Théo Gottlieb
Sound design and mix by Laura Debril
Recording studio by Hook
Production designer Anna Pospisilova
Sound-engineer Jakub Chech
Costume designer Martin Polak
Hair and make up Eva Schwarzova
Key Grip Jiří Trousil
Key Light Vladimír Smejkal
Associate Producers Tristan Beraud, Arthur Emorine, Yohan Ungar
Boogie Films
Executive Producers Jiří Heršálek
Line Producer Oldřich Havelka
Production Manager Kateřina Kratochvílová
Production Coordinator Markéta Janečková
Location Manager Martin Velinger
Birth
Producer and CEO Hugo Legrand-Nathan
Film Producer Lila Graffin
Administration Laurence Khalil
Production Assistant Hana Mekacher
Camera Rental VANTAGE
Light Rental Light services
Grip ARRI
Talkie Walkie Radios Rental
Theo Gottlieb Special Thanks NASA, Socialclub
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There are so many films, including this one, spoiled by music which is louder than the dialogue. For the hard of hearing, like me , it is a problem. I caught so many words, but without subtitles I can't say for sure what this film was about. It would be nice if film makers considered everyone in their audience, rather than a select number.
I got almost all the words. Didn't help much.
Yes, agreed. There was sufficient to provoke thought in the theme, without the attempt to provide unnecessary 'drama' by the intrusion of this music. And I say this as someone whose hearing is at a normal level.
I'm the same way, I'm hard of hearing and sometimes there's noise or others talking whilst the main characters are talking and being drowned out. So I rely on cc
I pulled up the video on my phone after watching it on my television to make these same points. The team that made this film has great potential, I will add.
Wow. Her performance was eerily cool. I can’t help but think she only told them what they could handle. Brilliant!!!
Thank you for your message. Ilona was a first time actress and did it perfectly.
@@theogottlieb wow indeed she did , if this was her first time i hope that she does more , she has an affinity for this , plz pass it on to her how much we all appreciated her talent in this , subtle/subdued but perfect for this performance
She wasn't asking cuz she can't act but no offense to the lady of course
I can’t handle the truth!
What caused her to lose her sight? Was it the brightness of the new world they found, or the overall brightness of the wall itself? What type of life did they find? This story needs continued.
Don't expect any explanations from Dust. What you see or hear is what you get.
Yes the brightness of the other space
I believe the other universe was the opposite of ours, reversing dark and light, as per the visual effects. The dark was bright Black was white. Her eyes adjusted, turning white. That’s my interpretation.
This could be the prologue for an insanely good scifi film about an inverted reality
I would say more a serial of short films with the interview of other crew members and events that happened during these 40 years in space and the “other one”. She was not there alone, or did I missed something.
I agree. Like the series Counterpart, there could be a great Trojan Horse plot twist.
Like "she" came back to lure the others to some strange doom.
oR, it could be the reality many are waking up too ??? hmmmmmmmmmm
quantum in a word
@@cameltube-vk7el Did Ed McMahon ever really make commercials for Publishers Clearing House?
Thanks Skorp! 🙏
I must think this short through. Forty years in space, jumping through a wormhole, coming across a "wall", which she entered, finding a second "earth" (I am surmising), then she returned back to Earth? I lost track when the panel spoke of meeting family and friends, and how she was getting on with them. None of her family would still be alive, and she would be over 100 years old. Did she not return to the original Earth, but landed on the planet she discovered? Was it Earth from another dimension? Were the interviewers from that Earth? Help! I am so confused.
I didnt get that either.. maybe i should watch it a 2nd time.. but too bored for that... i'll pass...
... and "bought flowers with my mother to visit my father"... question mark, question mark.
Meantime they discovered how to live 200 years old.
Spoilers. Spoilers everywhere
It says she was in space 40 years, she was 28 when she left. They lost over the whole aging and relativity thing. She's 68, her parents are probably in their 90s 🤷♀️ I think
Dust..., another smart one. But I would appreciate closed captions to follow when dialogue is kinda muddled...
This is typical audio issues for ALL of Dust's offerings... complaining about it doesn't work... believe me that along with other commenters and myself, complaining & appealing for Dust's audio engineers, program supervisors and technical support staffers to fix their audio sound problems, fails to yield any response or solutions... this has gone on for years now.
"Do you have any regrets for watching it?" "No, .....nothing."
I can't figure out why that was so good.
maybe it is a truth yet uncovered for YOU hmmmmmmmm ? /;-^)
Because it showed an expectation, of what might be heaven,just thinking crazy 🤔🤔🤔
An interesting effort. It didn't move me.
From the 4:00 minute mark to about 5:30 the music is loud enough to make it difficult to follow the dialogue. Captions would help there as well as with the distorted voices of the interviewers.
Agree. I have a pretty bad case of tinnitus, and music makes it hard to hear dialogue for me. Given the context of this video, it could even be done as a transcript of the interview.
Please consider subtitles, there are a lot of us who needs them.
@@anderstroberg3704 I fully agree. Also, this applies for people whose first language isn't english
I was wondering if anybody else felt this way about music ruining a part of the video. I sure felt that way
Yeah, I have no idea what the guy was asking at 5:39.
i had NO difficulty with any of that at all...
This makes me think so much of Stanislaw Lem.
Beautifully executed. Fantastic backing music and simplicity that brings a sense of effortlessness. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words about the music 🤍
That's a name I almost forgot. I used to read Sci-Fi books. I read Solaris as a teen.
@@FWCC1 His short stories are worth a browse too.
Comparison with Stanislaw Lem is such a great compliment. Thanks for your comment
Space. In addition to a towel, bring sunglasses.
So excellent for such a short story. This would definitely require a sequel!
When I feel the need to find a worm hole, I check the lawn after a rain. Plenty of 'em.
The second comment that made me laugh.
Unfortunately, it has become common recently to not have subtitles for Dust movies. :( I don't understand why. Unfortunately, my English is very poor, the subtitles are a big help.
Thank you for the fabulous first feedback, it's a real pleasure for the whole team. We look forward to future comments or questions about the film. :)
Theo
Unfortunately I failed to understand the point of the short. Too many questions with no answers. 'Nothing' is exactly what I get from it.
Did the planet they found end up being where she is now?
What is the wall?
Why is she being interviewed?
Was she blinded from the light? It looked like the returned astronaut was just older, not blind.
What about the little thing called time dilation?
Just far too many questions and no answers, "nothing" at all.
Good work mate although I did have a bit of trouble understanding what they were saying. What is the interviewer asking at 5:39 before she says, "No, nothing"?
Nice use of very simple effects and a surprising cameo of a processed Juno image (done a couple of those myself) made it into the planetary line up. I suggest the score is toned down a tad to not drown out part of the dialogue.
This is typical audio issues for ALL of Dust's offerings... complaining about it doesn't work... believe me that along with other commenters and myself, complaining & appealing for Dust's audio engineers, program supervisors and technical support staffers to fix their audio sound problems, fails to yield any response or solutions... this has gone on for years now.
@@0neIntangible why is it up to Dust? These are third party projects that they post- they’re not involved whatsoever in the creation
Why are so many of the comments on Dust shorts the same, particularly the early comments. "This should be a feature length movie". "I want more". etc. It's like it's some sort of bots trying to talk up every movie. This seems like the someone's outline of a story with a little visualization to go with it. It didn't actually feel like a story to me.
This is very Kubrikest. Stanley would like it!
Certified Gold!!!!
I like your all vedios
I would love to see this as a full-length feature film or series. Very well done.
Quite Interesting . . .
Need more. Please continue this story. It was too short. Would like to know about the planet she found.
Thanks for your message Jennifer. We would love to continue this story ;)
WOW!
you don't go through a worm hole and a " wall " and then return to the earth ... that's when i knew that she was dreaming.
2098...deep space travel...TAPE RECORDER???
I think you missed some key points in what they said, maybe just watch it again. They said multiple times that she spent 40 years in space, she became the youngest astronaut at 28. Why would she be over 100? Nobody said she is... She returned to her Earth, there's really no indication about the planet that she visited or if that's another dimension but I don't think they're trying to explain that.
there are some clues. the furniture is not modern, the office is not well lit, and the tape recorder is an older model. It's as if she landed at a much earlier time than when she left for space. She went blind because of the darkness (nothing) in space. She has no thoughts and feelings towards what she experienced (nothing).
it would be great if the movies also had subtitles
40 yrs there and 40 yrs back, how is she still alive
Brilliantly done! Bravo!
Oh my goodness. That was outstanding 🌼 🤗
Wow!
OMG it just dawned on me: That's not the real Elizabeth Esther from our Earth! That's the other Earth's Elizabeth Esther!
Yeah, your comment should have way more likes but well... this is the Dust comments section.
@@SilverhawksFan 😂
"Any regrets?”
"Duh!... I’m blind!!
Advanced technology may mean nothing to my love life, but it can save my life and my baby.
I enjoyed all of it. And there was an end along with a beginning , I feel both simultaneously. Deep commanding subtle score with the musical notes surrounding the actors -well done I say!
Well said, infact do you write the crap on sides of wine bottles descriptions ? LoL, he he.......have to see the humor there yes
Thanks Cruusher!:)
You are right. It was unique 😊.
Thank you !
Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate it :)
In the description text, "Nothing is about a quest for finding a better place to leave."
Is that last word a typo, or is there another level to this video that I totally missed?
watch 3x's
Sadly if we consume one planet and find another, we are likely going to consume it too
@@Sumpinking1 that is a possibility & potentiality and from my best understanding has happened & is how we[humans] have ended up in this freaking mess. But it is probable to get it right also. I will stop here because the next comments go quantum & even though thats what we are seeing in this flick [imo] I have said Quantum in my other reply\post & it will lose effect if I keep saying quantum over & over
3x's was my goal & mark HA HA HA ahhhh man /;^)
AlwaysForward~Godspeed
I've got nothing to add....
The trip went well.
ohhhhhhh snap ! Nice comment, short -n- sweet
Cool. Thank You & Best Regards
DUST never disappoints us with its story telling, video quality, and the music that goes along.♥️
In that case please explain the story
the colours makes the entire video looks more interesting
Good story but poorly balanced audio. When the music "swells" to portray emotion or significance you miss what is said. She was very soft spoken and much of it was drowned out. You turn up the quiet parts to hear, and then are blasted with loud music again.
Now that is a truth, could have got the sound right because the story was quantum
This is typical audio issues for ALL of Dust's offerings... complaining about it doesn't work... believe me that along with other commenters and myself, complaining & appealing for Dust's audio engineers, program supervisors and technical support staffers to fix their audio sound problems, fails to yield any response or solutions... this has gone on for years now.
The mix of the film is mostly intended to be watched in theaters which is the reason for a larger dynamic range, hence the big differences between the quiet parts and loud ones. It will probably be for the best experience to have a a good pair of headphones ;)
Why can't we have some sci-fi concerning the saving of this planet Earth instead of always running away from the problems we create on this our home. These running away documentaries are a documentation of just how foolish we humans are. 73% of this planet is yet to be explored.
Do you mean undersea in the oceans?... and If so, I agree.
And we will call our new home Eden.
For the timeline thing, she could simply be doing an interview years or even decades after she returned home. In hyper sleep (cryogenic freezing) she would not have aged, so could have left at 28 years old, and returned to be say 30, then 60 or so years later they interview her.
i found the audio perfect with headphones.
The style of directing reminds me if a movie " No Such Thing"
I honestly could listen to her read the phone book. Superb story teller and voice.
Right.. great voice
What did I get out of it? Nothing.
@@text-4291gift just sent all cash gifts local homeless centers winters are the worse time of the year..
This was gorgeous! The music paired with the visuals was incredibly moving. At the end, I felt all the emotions simmering beneath the surface as the astronaut answered the panel's final questions. Really remarkable work!
It could have been almost mindbending until it wasn`t. The last minute of dialogue just destroyed the whole outstanding build prior. Just so disappointing.
You really explained it. So much potential too.
watch it 3x's for effect
This is typical audio issues for ALL of Dust's offerings... complaining about it doesn't work... believe me that along with other commenters and myself, complaining & appealing for Dust's audio engineers, program supervisors and technical support staffers to fix their audio sound problems, fails to yield any response or solutions... this has gone on for years now.
The dialoge was hard to hear over the music
dear DUST uploaders, please check that the video has a subtitle so everyone could understand wha'ts going on. thank you.
With all the time effort and skill that go into so many of these short productions, you would think creators would be willing to at least take the time to make sure these videos were accompanied by accurate Closed Captioning. Half of what is said at the end is inaudible, at least for me, and it's those final moments that it seems to me are the most crucial in the creative statements being made here...
Agreed, my deaf wife would love this, but not if its only pictures.
@@rocketman71 I don't know why @dust doesn't make it mandatory...
The message is: There can't be nothing!
Amazing 👍🏻👍
“Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end. It all depends upon where the observer is standing.”
- Frank Herbert
Why would they sit her in a chair without a table so far away? She touched the water and it made a musical 🎶?
☠🚀☠
The truth about the ancient builder race is coming out. Whether fact or fiction. Its one hell of a story.
They found the Invearth.
Go through it who knows where you will be.
There are probably hundreds of worlds like our, in our own galaxy, without having to go to another one.
Lots of questions, but I gues the main one is what good is an inverted earth to the original earth?
This needs subtitles. "That's where we found ???" Life? "How's your life since you got back? Any gyerdikisher?" Nfi what that guy was saying there. How is her mother alive? What the fuck is this even about? It's clear the filmmakers were trying to say something but it's impossible to tell what.
The Invers would be the right title i think.
I was waiting for the absolute plot twist as of how she lost her vision, but I guess I have to fill it with my own imagination.
The second universe piqued my interest. Provocative.
I missed parts of the dialogue, even replayed it several times on max volumn and couldn't understand. Can't say I like it when the words couldn't be heard. Wish there'd been subtitles.
Dr.Checkeye was lady's optometrist
More! I need more !
I was glued to the screen, this is perfection.
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Yummy. Thank you
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🎄🎅
Well...that was a BUNCH. OF...NOTHING
the beginning of a masterpiece film
I may have got this wrong but could it be that after 40 years she just ended up back where she started and what is with the white eyes.
Subtitles in Portuguese, please...
It was so very good
hmm from reading the comments i godda say: i had ZERO difficulty in hearing the dialog and understanding what was going on.... seems like some people just like to complain about mundane things, and some OTHERS like to just agree to feel a sense of BELONGING. it's a piece of video art, get over yourselves. this is a MIND BLOWING concept alone with potential for SO much. VERY WELL DONE DUS another SMASH HIT! in my opinion 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 because one thumb up is not enough 😉😉
I had about elation of space exist i some day dream of it but thanks for this shot video
Confused about the ending. Was she on the parallel earth? The clothes of the interviewers, that one girl walking barefoot and them using an analog tape recorder 40 years into the future - that didn't make sense. But then why would a parallel earth celebrate a human from another planet as the human of the century?
And why did her crew bring back one tiny plant only? When did they go blind? If they were blind upon reaching the planet, how did they even know what the planet was capable of?
Reminds me of a condensed version of Interstellar.
Mmmh. In a way beautiful but... I agree with many of the complaints : the sound is a problem. The music is too loud and that sometimes prevent the listeners to understand parts of the dialogue. There are some distorted moments and one moment when a compression is applied in a weird way. Sound in space (the sound of the spacecraft) is so unscientific, I can't believe people still don't understand how annoying it is to hear that plus... If she travelled 40 years in space, I presume at high speed, everyone she knew on Earth might be dead. Time dilation... simple fact.
Excellent. Bravo! I love stories about space/time travel, and this is surprisingly emotional. She was comfortable with her journey, despite a lot of personal sacrifice. We should all be so comfortable with our own decisions about reaching out.
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Superb!
A nice simple sci-fi tale. A beginning and an end, with the possibility of expanding the story. Great musical score and decent acting. Well done!
Thank you for your kind words about the music 🤍
Por favor será posible el que se pueda activar la traducción automática para hispanohablantes, habemos algunos sin oportunidad de entender el inglés. Muchas gracias y continúen vuestros éxitos!!
Really beautiful work
Well, i was expecting everything to go into negative at the end and show the woman was from the light world and everything was in the light universe and they came to ours...
The point of this short is subtle but enormous. "Nothing" refers to the torment of contrasting success in endeavor, scentific in this example, and the life dedicated to it's pursuit; and the lost opportunity to have a life of one's own. The telling point is where the protagonist makes the statement, "I enjoyed meeting my friend's children" - those words gives rise to the only emotion she's willing to portray to the panel of interviewers, one of bitter regret. For the rest she only feels nothing - hence the repeated, candid response.
To have succeeded so well to ensure humanities survival as a species, honored and celebrated the world over - but for what? To do so to the detriment, to the nullification of her own lineage, gives rise to the question, "Why did I save them all, if there will be nothing left of me and mine?" There is no sweetness to salve a wound like this, hence, "Nothing" indeed.
The cloudy eyes are a strong metaphor, though nothing is mentioned of her sight being affected. Somewhat poetically: Eyes clouded, there's nothing left to see if there's nothing left of me.
An extremely individualistic sentiment to carry, and should appeal to anyone living in the modern age. 4 stars.
To be honest, the music at times is over-powering the dialogue.
the ending explains why is it called so
This was even shorter than a short
So, we have the tech to do this but not replace eyes? Seriously?
Amazing short film, this would make an awesome full length movie! Thank you.