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  • After waking up in a bizarre facility, Anna is forced to work together with her literal past lives in order to escape.
    "Iteration 1" by Jesse Lupini
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    Anna wakes up in a strange white room. She has 60 seconds to escape, and when the timer hits zero she drops dead, only to reawaken in the same room, alongside a shadowy impression of her previous self. Stuck on repeat, Anna must think ahead and learn from her mistakes to solve a series of puzzles and escape this dystopian maze with the help of her past lives.
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  • @maladjustedmaverick6619
    @maladjustedmaverick6619 Před 5 lety +767

    This actress is phenomenal. She conveys personality and a wide range of emotions very vividly with so little dialogue...

  • @justtryitwithgege6346
    @justtryitwithgege6346 Před 5 lety +1001

    Honestly I would have failed so many times. A quiet room and a bed.. I would have slept straight through it lol.

    • @azizziparov8468
      @azizziparov8468 Před 5 lety +3

      Sekic

    • @caitlinhanmore
      @caitlinhanmore Před 5 lety +2

      Not me

    • @dingo1666
      @dingo1666 Před 5 lety +31

      Me too. No point in wasting energy if you have a bed and can have peace without straining yourself.

    • @vnelson000
      @vnelson000 Před 5 lety +23

      The temptation was not missed by the A.I. but after an iteration it came to the conclusion that sleeping wasnt a productive choice.

    • @thisislife2383
      @thisislife2383 Před 4 lety +12

      The point is you know that there is no end, but they don't. They hope to do as many doors as possible to fine of a way out

  • @sneakersheik2418
    @sneakersheik2418 Před 5 lety +1222

    Who else thought she was supposed to climb the tree?

    • @squisher0
      @squisher0 Před 4 lety +18

      She was

    • @phaedra9698
      @phaedra9698 Před 4 lety +53

      Or use it on the door. Cutting through the trunk didn't make sense.

    • @Nicole-fb6fr
      @Nicole-fb6fr Před 4 lety +29

      She probably would have escaped for good if she climbed the tree

    • @marvinbush7304
      @marvinbush7304 Před 3 lety +15

      Yeah, at first I thought that she was supposed to climb the tree. That's what I would have tried to do. But I certainly didn't think that she was suppose to attempt to cut it down. That just seemed so unnecessarily destructive to me.

    • @matteloht
      @matteloht Před 3 lety +43

      If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail...

  • @WallaceX80
    @WallaceX80 Před 5 lety +648

    I wanted to see when someone climbs the tree, sees the maze, and goes insane.

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 Před 5 lety +18

      use the axe as a first step into tree, my first thought

    • @elizabethbennet4791
      @elizabethbennet4791 Před 4 lety +4

      nah in that case then they could just crawl across the ceiling until they see a way out

    • @terrabiker
      @terrabiker Před 4 lety +8

      @@wernercollins1319 why use the axe on a really tough large wide tree , when the door is like max 2 inches thick ;) Logic...

    • @dailycompetitivecoding8565
      @dailycompetitivecoding8565 Před 4 lety +3

      We are doing that by watching this video

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 Před 4 lety +3

      @@terrabiker You maybe didn't understand my logic, you use the axe as a one step ladder to climb the tree, to see which way to go...then you know which wall to axe ;)

  • @hugowoesthuis
    @hugowoesthuis Před 5 lety +1817

    Fun fact: It's kinda how AI learns

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 Před 5 lety +61

      Machine Learning

    • @defaltmarkowicz527
      @defaltmarkowicz527 Před 5 lety +57

      Built an A.I for flappy bird, this expresses what that A.I went through

    • @nayuki2020
      @nayuki2020 Před 5 lety +32

      Literally the only thing I thought the video was referring to. Seems no. LOL

    • @k.m.z.hardesty
      @k.m.z.hardesty Před 5 lety

      This is true

    • @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv
      @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv Před 5 lety +13

      Just realized it
      Edit: but AI is not limited by the time, they just keep going until there's something make this end

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth Před 5 lety +267

    The axe becoming available should be a huge clue!! Going from room to room is NOT the way out. The axe gives them the ability to bypass the "puzzles" by breaking through the walls. If there are "endless" rooms, no matter how fast they chop or how many of them are chopping, they will never chop fast enough. THEREFORE, the axe proves the room puzzles are not a solution but a mere distraction... the way out... is UP!! CLIMB THAT TREE!!

    • @paintedpony2935
      @paintedpony2935 Před 4 lety +38

      Climbing the tree will just bring you to another cubicle. I think this is a representation of the frustration and futility of the masses, due to the endless manipulation and mind-fucking of corporate life. Aren't we already living in cubicles performing meaningless tasks? Break out!

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Před 4 lety +28

      What about DOWN ? Chop through the floor... The test center machine learning Sim-World wouldn't expect you to cut down through the floor.
      The Buddha would sit under the tree, clear his mind, and touch the floor. No longer can the voice command him to die every 60 seconds.

    • @zistorbar
      @zistorbar Před 4 lety +7

      @@SeaJay_Oceans going further into the maze also makes you a longer road to get back where you were

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Před 4 lety +11

      @@zistorbar stopping the voice and 60 second kills... that should be their goal... don't play the game - change the rules.

    • @Wordzwurth
      @Wordzwurth Před 4 lety +3

      @@SeaJay_Oceans nice

  • @earlpotter2795
    @earlpotter2795 Před 5 lety +233

    "The Enrichment Center is committed to the well-being of all participants. Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all."

  • @smrchny
    @smrchny Před 4 lety +345

    This maze looks like a light version of "Сube"

    • @tronalddump2267
      @tronalddump2267 Před 4 lety +18

      Cube lite

    • @zORg_alex
      @zORg_alex Před 4 lety +15

      A positive one. Without gore and total mess.

    • @malavoy1
      @malavoy1 Před 4 lety +8

      Closer to the "talos principle". The multiple copies that end up helping with a large job are like the recording device used in that game.

    • @tomasotreasaigh111
      @tomasotreasaigh111 Před 4 lety +2

      'The Cube' with Philip Schofield?
      I think they are gonna change the name of that show to 'The Lube'...

    • @briscoethecollie1510
      @briscoethecollie1510 Před 4 lety +5

      Was just about to say that, what was the thing with that anyway? I swear I saw all three films and still none the wiser

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth Před 5 lety +2604

    Seems to be symbolic of our daily rat races in which we run around in circles trying to find a meaning or a way of escape. We do the wrong things over and over until we eventually learn from our mistakes which only leads us to the next challenge. If we are lucky enough to find someone along the way, we can work together toward common goals. The truth is, no matter how many problems we figure out, there will always be more, and regardless of how far we get, we all eventually run out of time. I think the moral of the story is; enjoy your life while you can and use your time wisely or you might end up spending your whole life "popping balloons" for no reason.. Unless, of course, you enjoy "popping balloons". In which case, pop them all you want!!! It's your time.. Spend it how you like! - CHEERS!

    • @JustinLHopkins
      @JustinLHopkins Před 5 lety +58

      Or, it’s literally just people in a crazy, alternate dimensional puzzle of some sort. Not everything has to have a deeper meaning.

    • @nia6849
      @nia6849 Před 5 lety +23

      This is a symbolism of our universe and our daily lives are some type of computer simulation

    • @beyourself4996
      @beyourself4996 Před 5 lety +15

      Wordzwurth thank you for the explication.

    • @dhrumilbarot1431
      @dhrumilbarot1431 Před 5 lety +15

      words of wisdom brother

    • @mamataynjay
      @mamataynjay Před 5 lety +6

      Very well said

  • @SuperAtheist
    @SuperAtheist Před 5 lety +1670

    I would have used the ax on the door.

    • @sugarbabylove1000
      @sugarbabylove1000 Před 5 lety +44

      I was thinking the same

    • @janvanruth3485
      @janvanruth3485 Před 5 lety +25

      my first thought also

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae Před 5 lety +68

      Why not try the key that worked on the door before first?

    • @TonyMcGarry
      @TonyMcGarry Před 5 lety +33

      The ax wasn't available until the Tree room and it only had the entry door. Sure seemed like a Black Mirror story. Loved it.

    • @Hydroculator
      @Hydroculator Před 5 lety +4

      @@raphidae The door with the balloons had a keyhole next to it. It was the only door which had one.

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 Před 3 lety +81

    The actress is phenomenal. She got me well-invested into her character as this puzzle solving heroine like Chell in Portal. I have to admit, I have a soft spot for puzzle solving and video games... made me fell inlove with her quickly with the 'player one' antics one is supposed to experience when playing progression type games with simple rules but with diverse challenges and having moments that sometimes makes you question your actions and the game itself but you still end up grinding up the levels.
    That quirky nature of the whole film itself is just wow... unfortunately this will only make me watch more videos on this channel. Curse you, DUST!

    • @stephanepoirier5582
      @stephanepoirier5582 Před 3 lety +3

      Her name is Catherine Isobelle. She does off-beat characters or stories. And like wine she gets better with time.

    • @KayKay114
      @KayKay114 Před 3 lety +2

      @@stephanepoirier5582 Katherine Isabelle.
      She's been on my favourite actress list for 16 years or so now. After I first watched Ginger Snaps.

  • @mike-zq9fl
    @mike-zq9fl Před 3 lety +14

    I like how they symbolize the process of Reinforcement Learning of AI with human beings trying to find the solutions to a problem in the most efficient way as possible.

  • @edbailey7533
    @edbailey7533 Před 5 lety +595

    What a great ride! I loved how the woman's personality evolved with each iteration, how she and the man first sought connection, and then continued on their quest. Together. Humans need connection--no matter the type, and a quest--no matter the outcome. This film shows that so beautifully.

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 Před 5 lety +7

      Yes, yes, yes and yes.

    • @briancossey9724
      @briancossey9724 Před 5 lety +10

      It shows we will never get ahead man or woman if we don`t work together we have no future if we put man against women we were designed as a team each with their weakness but together can accomplish the impossible

    • @KutWrite
      @KutWrite Před 5 lety +8

      @@briancossey9724: But the end showed it's all meaningless.
      Where would they ever get to but another cube with another silly "challenge?"

    • @wonderosity
      @wonderosity Před 5 lety +7

      KutWrite no, the meaningfulness of life is in relationship...and now they are together

    • @swingambassador
      @swingambassador Před 5 lety +7

      Get Schwifty, silly, she is doing better than the guy.

  • @TRabbit1970
    @TRabbit1970 Před 5 lety +248

    “...f@#$ it.” Best response in the video. Bar none.

  • @RassTheKing
    @RassTheKing Před 4 lety +72

    9:15 I really felt that on a deep level.

  • @Marqan
    @Marqan Před 3 lety +40

    I loved every second of this! Definitely one of my favourite shorts!
    In no small part thanks to the actress, she was perfect!

  • @AnthonyMiyazaki
    @AnthonyMiyazaki Před 5 lety +391

    Another DUST video to mess with our brains. Completely awesome!

    • @benevolentdictator2315
      @benevolentdictator2315 Před 5 lety +7

      They are collecting our responses to develop a template on how to adjust the mindset of the aggregate observer by creating story lines to adjust our attitude for manipulation.
      This DUST program is funded by a Soros front disguised as the CIA psych-op unit out of Langley.
      A form of crowd control for the future.
      The AGW farce is an example of the template being tested in reality to affect social sentiment in order to by-pass critical thinking by emotion.

    • @jackie-we4ep
      @jackie-we4ep Před 5 lety +3

      benevolent dictator I’m sorry. What? 😂

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Před 4 lety

      Portal meets machine learning... Oh, we have a problem when ATLAS can play portal in simulation and beat every challenge in minimum time... Now G.I.A. is thinking with portals ! :-O

    • @justsomeofmyfavs
      @justsomeofmyfavs Před 2 měsíci

      @@benevolentdictator2315 Of course zero evidence for the bogus funding statement. Like with all loony conspiracy theorists. I dislike Soros very much, but this is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. "They" my arse.

  • @graffiti73
    @graffiti73 Před 5 lety +34

    the best part I think and I laughed out loud was when she got fed up and rolled over and said "F**K It! 🤣🤣

  • @sikandarabbas
    @sikandarabbas Před 5 lety +49

    Sometimes tools provided to you doesn't work the way they seem. You must learn to use them in different ways to find your way

  • @michaeloguntuase8803
    @michaeloguntuase8803 Před 4 lety +166

    The dude who wrote this script must be someone who had constant nightmares.

    • @yevgeniyaleshchenko849
      @yevgeniyaleshchenko849 Před 3 lety +3

      ????? Why are you wishing such horrible things upon someone.

    • @AaronHorrocks
      @AaronHorrocks Před 3 lety +3

      Or had played Portal.

    • @wren7195
      @wren7195 Před 3 lety +4

      @@AaronHorrocks Or chronic illness patient. Believe me, it's like this. Least she had a really nice quilt on the bed.

    • @Handbook08
      @Handbook08 Před 2 lety

      I have constantly dreams like these. Not as a confined space as this, but same logic. I keep dying and coming back. Not scary, but just...disappointing when guy A, for example, shoots me from the side and then I die. Next, I already know where he is and then shoot. Other examples with exits and routes are similar. This is similar across dreams too, it seems i have a memory stored for them, and I’m just one character.

    • @MarkoDeLaVoota
      @MarkoDeLaVoota Před 2 lety

      ayahuasca user?
      perhaps 🤔

  • @genehayes3736
    @genehayes3736 Před 5 lety +349

    Very good short! I like that everyone gets to interpret this for themselves. I personally thought of programmers testing AI to see how well it "learns". Many simulations running at the same time... And if you're the AI, you probably don't know what is going on or that you are just a simulation. Until you learn it that is...

    • @KirsiKitten
      @KirsiKitten Před 5 lety +10

      That was my first thought too, Ive been watching a lot of Code Bullet and I was really reminded of that process.

    • @curiousgamer9343
      @curiousgamer9343 Před 5 lety +5

      That part "Many simulations at the same time" reminds me of the quantum computer coz that's what they do.

    • @giacomobrambilla175
      @giacomobrambilla175 Před 5 lety +2

      I think futures ai will be trained in this kind of simulations

    • @rohangupta1115
      @rohangupta1115 Před 5 lety +5

      Reinforcement learning😂😂

    • @MaakaSakuranbo
      @MaakaSakuranbo Před 5 lety +3

      Nah, it's an odd bonding ritual that lovers on the planet of Iomia go through. Their memories are partially wiped and they face those challenges, eventually meeting each other and facing challenges together. And through that, a deep bond of trust and cooperation grows.

  • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
    @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN Před 5 lety +175

    First thought after seeing the axe... chop open the door lol.

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae Před 5 lety +8

      You'd not try the key you still have and which worked on the previous door?

    • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
      @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN Před 5 lety +5

      @@raphidae Eventually though, yes... Gotta admit, after I get bored enough, that would probably seem like another good alternative to try lol.

    • @E-plunksna
      @E-plunksna Před 5 lety +1

      me too haha

    • @OHFORPEATSAKES
      @OHFORPEATSAKES Před 5 lety

      same

    • @kushxmen
      @kushxmen Před 5 lety

      @@OHFORPEATSAKES There was only one door, the one she came in through.

  • @donsamokwan7958
    @donsamokwan7958 Před 4 lety +21

    I love this lady's acting, she's great. And I watched this film a few times well it still gets me wondering

  • @SevanniBlack
    @SevanniBlack Před 4 lety +17

    When she made it through the door I felt like I was watching a new version of cube.

    • @Guido_XL
      @Guido_XL Před 4 lety +1

      That is what also sprung to my mind when I saw this. It is very reminiscent of the Cube movie trilogy.

  • @jessiontherox5577
    @jessiontherox5577 Před 5 lety +105

    She said 20. He said 62.. U mean to tell me it took him a whole 62 times?? I was yelling a the lady the first time she hit that tree.. Lord

    • @Aurinkohirvi
      @Aurinkohirvi Před 5 lety +9

      Yeah and funny that they happened to break in the same room same time (neither of them had earlier iterations there). I think you would try them walls very early in the 1st room already. Arriving axe room it would have been plain as day to try the wall or the door first.

    • @CathySW
      @CathySW Před 5 lety +21

      He might have started from further away, though

    • @AdnanAli-rb3lt
      @AdnanAli-rb3lt Před 5 lety +7

      He probably spent more time trying to cut the tree, before noticing it's regeneration.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM Před 5 lety +3

      I could have sworn he said 16. Damn it, now I need to re-watch that part

    • @bethclemensen2102
      @bethclemensen2102 Před 5 lety +10

      @@nothingsurprisesmeanymore YES. Obviously, cutting down the tree was a distraction.l First seeing it, I thought to climb the tree. Saw the axe,, thought to go for the door! At a certain point, stop playing by "their" rules. !!!!!!

  • @eastmanwebb5477
    @eastmanwebb5477 Před 5 lety +108

    If you liked this movie, I encourage you to watch the movie "Edge of Tomorrow: Live. Die. Repeat.”

    • @mephistounderwood4917
      @mephistounderwood4917 Před 5 lety +4

      or Ground Hog's Day. I'm not a fan of that brainwashed, scientologist mouthpiece, of puppet you all call tom cruise. I don't like anything about him. Especially how he treats his exes. Brainwashed his children so that they would have nothing to do with their mother, all while getting a divorce. If the average Joe did that, the judge would have thrown the book at him and awarded custody to the mother by default. But because he was rich and had the full force of the church of scientology (a brainwashing, morally bankrupt cult that uses underhanded and illegal practices to coerce their opponents into leaving them alone and/or giving them what they want,) he got away with it and Nicole Kidman got screwed over, royally. You want to know what a complete ass he is, just watch some of the vids that have come out about scientology.
      FYI: Note how I used capital letters for Nicole and Ground Hog's Day, but not tom cruise, scientology, nor church of scientology. It's not a typo, it's intentional and an intentional sign of total disrespect. I believe scientology to be dangerous and they have certainly shown no concern about destroying families through their destructive brainwashing methodology. I think the best thing that could be done there, is to raid them, take all the members and put through a psych eval, then through a deprogramming treatment if necessary. The leaders who are responsible for the brainwashing should be jailed. That entire religion was the brainchild of l. ron. hubbard. He was a Sci-Fi writer, who dishonorably discharged from the navy after he mistook a part of Mexico as an enemy and opened fire on Mexico. Before that he had opened fire floating logs and other harmless debris, believing he was firing on an enemy. He was obviously a deranged and troubled person. He made up that religion using nothing but his imagination and convinced people that they are all infested with spirits of evil aliens who flew around in space ships that look exactly like a DC-10 aircraft, called thetans (named after the ancient Greek letter theta.) Also, unlike other religions, you need to pay to be taught the next level towards your ascension, which they call clear (meaning you're clear of thetans,) but there is always some new, more powerful thetan that needs to be cleared, which costs more money with each level and the teachings of which, get more and more absurd.
      Sorry. I tend to go off on tangents...

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 Před 5 lety +11

      @@mephistounderwood4917 why would you hold so much hatred against someone you don't even know?
      YOU are clearly the one who's disturbed.

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 Před 5 lety +3

      Yeah, that's a good movie.

    • @bellanolia1759
      @bellanolia1759 Před 5 lety +5

      @@mephistounderwood4917 dead with laughter you need to get a life u can't go around with so much hatred specially for someone u don't know imagine if it was someone close to u?

    • @Ukitsu2
      @Ukitsu2 Před 4 lety +1

      And the manga is even better, try to read it: 'All You Need Is Kill', it's a lot more "DUSTish".

  • @JZ909
    @JZ909 Před 3 lety +1

    A delightful amount of meaning in an absolute lack of explanation. We know what this is about, even if the scenario is unexplained and bizarre. Great piece of art!

  • @PalmettoNDN
    @PalmettoNDN Před 4 lety +3

    As a former fireman who's also worked in EMS and law enforcement, I was like NOOOO!!!! What are you doing to the tree??? You've been given a breaching tool!

  • @pawelwiatr2134
    @pawelwiatr2134 Před 5 lety +63

    Groundhog Day and Cube in one movie

  • @jihedjaouabi7623
    @jihedjaouabi7623 Před 5 lety +40

    9:23 That would be my reaction since iteration 2 if it was me in that situation

  • @drgeoffangel5422
    @drgeoffangel5422 Před 27 dny

    Rivetting Sc Fi , in the last shot you realise that someone is studying the behaviour ! Well done thank you!

  • @dorinemort6359
    @dorinemort6359 Před 5 lety +2

    Heard this in a movie once " If ya keep on doin what you've allways done-you'll keep on bein what you've allways been"

  • @djinnisequoia
    @djinnisequoia Před 5 lety +10

    This is a brilliant concept. Also, I feel the actors chosen are particularly expressive and relatable. Great work!

  • @GeoffBournes
    @GeoffBournes Před 5 lety +93

    Deep. I see how machines could do this to humans . Artificial intelligence wouldn't really care one way or the other and just carry out various endless exercises and computations solely based on algorithms designed by us.

    • @bahadrbaserkok3335
      @bahadrbaserkok3335 Před 5 lety +1

      Portal ?

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium Před 5 lety +5

      Who says it isn't like that already

    • @user-td1zo3tv9p
      @user-td1zo3tv9p Před 4 lety +1

      @@Arendium, came to log in and write the SAME comment so I'm lead to believe we already ARE enduring this phenomenon.
      Only difference is that, unlike in the movie Groundhog Day, some of us tend NOT to learn from our previous experiences while others DO!
      Which end of the spectrum are YOU working from?
      Inquiring minds wanna know.
      Overnout.
      At least until the NEXT Iteration, that is.
      Hahahahaha

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium Před 4 lety

      @@user-td1zo3tv9p Me? I believe I am new mind, but with the possibility of trascending in just one human life. An odd and apparently experimental case.

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 Před 3 lety

    That bed 'rage quit' part is golden. Just GOLDEN!

  • @littelprettyangel1
    @littelprettyangel1 Před 5 lety +19

    Human usually being curious discovers and invents new things and at a new level by challenging his own & his anscestors efforts and thinks that he is at the peak of Knowledge but he is actually still at the corner of the universe of Knowledge like a child exploring things (of this Expanding Universe.)

  • @j.d.3597
    @j.d.3597 Před 5 lety +34

    That was insane! I LOVE IT!!!
    Brilliant piece!!

  • @joshuaehl1481
    @joshuaehl1481 Před 5 lety +5

    I came back just to say how good this was. Impressive imagery, great shots and your cast did amazing.

  • @mercysdesire
    @mercysdesire Před 5 lety +7

    Would love to see a full movie out of this. Reminds me of the cube. Kind of. Brilliant concept 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @seamus9305
    @seamus9305 Před 4 lety +6

    Reminds me of reoccurring dreams I've had that would play over and over until I confronted a situation.

  • @davidkennedy1077
    @davidkennedy1077 Před 5 lety +6

    Dust, delivering the good stuff yet again. Another short that really makes you think.

  • @nickiemcnichols5397
    @nickiemcnichols5397 Před 5 lety +251

    Weird. Why do humans assume tha tree+axe means cut it down?

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 Před 5 lety +18

      Some will. Some won't.

    • @Jack251190
      @Jack251190 Před 5 lety +52

      Well it was either that or wall plus axe, as we saw. Not sure what your point is really. An axe is a tool, it is within human nature to recognise patterns and we recognise what an axe is for.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM Před 5 lety +18

      The audience, which is us, is seeing it from the outside in. She is the one on the inside and some what the previous iterations taught her, you take the tool and you interact with what is there. She didn't know any better until a couple of iterations later. Regardless she did learn and that was the point for that room I suppose

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 Před 5 lety +6

      Because "Axe the tree" means cut down the tree.

    • @meggi8048
      @meggi8048 Před 5 lety +4

      my first idea, tear down the wall.. break out.

  • @MegaRudeBoy69
    @MegaRudeBoy69 Před 3 lety +8

    Katharine Isabelle, she was also great in the movie American Mary.

  • @KebabMusicLtd
    @KebabMusicLtd Před 3 lety

    She is no different from a computer animation locked inside a game (like Sonic the Hedgehog). They have 60 seconds to complete each task, or they go back to the start. If they succeed to the next level the 60 second count starts again, or maybe it doubles. The player (or the girl animation) would feel a sense of accomplishment at the presence of other clone animations helping her, and then a sense of accomplishment in succeeding to the next level, and then again a sense of accomplishment that there are other people (like the guy) who she has the possibility of meeting, and so the game goes on. All such games are ultimately pointless as all you succeed in doing is starting again at a higher level, where the task may be more difficult, but that thrill of having succeeded is what keeps the game alive. Notice that she asked him his score (62) and told him hers (20)
    This was one of the better DUST videos I have seen so far.

  • @KennedyKioli
    @KennedyKioli Před 5 lety +24

    first thing I'llbe projecting to my students on Monday morning class. beautiful and original. :)

  • @quillmaurer6563
    @quillmaurer6563 Před 5 lety +6

    9:12 so relatable!
    It took quite a while to see where they were going with this, but in the end I see some of the best commentary on life I've ever seen put on film. Stuck in an infinite loop, once you fulfill one "challenge" in life you're just faced another one, all with no end goal, at least not one our capitalist society that glorifies working ourselves to death promotes. To get anything from life we must bust our way out to find some meaning somehow.

    • @florencepierce1864
      @florencepierce1864 Před 2 lety

      Wow! I was just agreeing with another post from 3 years ago on how they should climb the tree: I think they should do that After finding each other by breaking through walls. After all, we’re a combination of pack/herd animals & we need all need help. But I was so caught up in the drama I hadn’t thought, yep, that’s all of us in this life, sometimes trying to work out the seemingly random details & connections, sometimes bashing futilely away with brute force, sometimes giving up & going: “Nah! F**K It!!!” before getting up again with renewed vigor.
      And sometimes, just Sometimes- we see All the Connections, like we’re getting a glimpse behind the curtain at the inner-workings of the Universe & (just for a second) we See (& Understand) Everything.
      And then it all goes away & we go back to putting our heads down & bashing through walls & not understanding Anything!

  • @tangobango9653
    @tangobango9653 Před 4 lety

    ‘Iteration’ is the process of repeating. I luv the simplicity of the room...the future.

  • @thehoodsomali4970
    @thehoodsomali4970 Před 4 lety +25

    You Guys all need to think Better:
    What you need to do in a Situation like this is when you get far enough into other rooms bring the bed with you, so you don’t have to respawn in room 1 so you can make Progress!
    Gotta move Smarter, Gotta move Harder
    #TheBox

    • @ellijahstefonson3067
      @ellijahstefonson3067 Před 4 lety +2

      The hood Somali that very smart actually lol 😅

    • @amiinaabdi8188
      @amiinaabdi8188 Před 4 lety +1

      Or have the man drag the table to nearby rooms while the women scouts above or runs on the roof of the maze

    • @milescochran2915
      @milescochran2915 Před 4 lety +1

      Very wise!

    • @farhiaabdi8861
      @farhiaabdi8861 Před 4 lety +1

      Interesting

    • @caseyolsen5395
      @caseyolsen5395 Před 4 lety

      Lmaoo is that last sentence a Roddy Ricch line from the box. 😂😂😂

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Před 5 lety +89

    thats one hell of a video game. chop down door with ax. try key first.

    • @stratpac
      @stratpac Před 5 lety +4

      They do that in Texas all the time!!

    • @YouHolli
      @YouHolli Před 5 lety +5

      Portal. The games name is Portal. Check it out.

  • @RangeWilson
    @RangeWilson Před 5 lety +5

    I'm like, "Damn, girl, haven't you ever seen The Shining? Don't chop down the damn TREE!"

  • @ArielCotton
    @ArielCotton Před 3 lety +1

    I've said it before and will say it again, this would make a freaking fantastic VR game. I would spend hours playing.

  • @primed3622
    @primed3622 Před 4 lety +11

    And this, my friends, was how real-life Portal was born.

  • @ankoutechnica8211
    @ankoutechnica8211 Před 5 lety +8

    Highly engaging and entertaining! Acting and cinematography were good, scenery was sparse but effective, and the storyline intriguing. Kudos!

  • @punjabsoul
    @punjabsoul Před 5 lety +6

    Moral of the story humans do need coexistence to work and to survive

  • @hardlyrecognized653
    @hardlyrecognized653 Před 5 lety +1

    This one made me cry. It moved me for some reason.

  • @Boggey3000
    @Boggey3000 Před 4 lety

    Remember that old flashgame "Click" or what it was called? Were you helped yourself click on cones, cubes and other puzzles to advance to the next room. One room you basically had to hold down a button to open the door to let your next self though.

  • @vishnupriyatharshini7981
    @vishnupriyatharshini7981 Před 5 lety +8

    It's like life lessons, until we learn it we keep on doing the same thing... Life is somewhat MYSTERY and HISTORY... Sometimes we have to learn from our own, sometimes from life of others... But the truth you have to live the life... We can't hide or escape from what is happening... Whatever has to happen definitely it will happen...but it all for the good, it ends well if we make it perfect.. 🙂🌷

  • @bearc1373
    @bearc1373 Před 4 lety +4

    I've been going through problems and dust has helped me🙂thank you🇺🇸

  • @maxcruz5936
    @maxcruz5936 Před 2 lety

    This actress is AWSOME!! Love all her movies

  • @evanmercer3690
    @evanmercer3690 Před 5 lety +2

    That was amazing! It's the same processes we set up for computer learning. Such a good idea putting a human in the same situation.

  • @petermcrory5194
    @petermcrory5194 Před 5 lety +3

    stellar :) great acting, editing, filming, and concept.

  • @GunDrone
    @GunDrone Před 5 lety +36

    Quantum mechanics experiment gone totally wrong. i love it.. :)

  • @jtreal
    @jtreal Před 3 lety +1

    That's life! If we learn from our past mistakes we can move forward in life!

  • @Skullmonkeys44
    @Skullmonkeys44 Před 5 lety +2

    i'm sorry marvel, dc
    i'm sorry split, glass
    i'm sorry matrix
    but if this video gets to be a trilogy movie.
    i'm so gonna watch it.
    heck a series why not ?
    this has so much potential... damn

  • @Zarithos
    @Zarithos Před 4 lety +4

    #1. Oh girl in a room with a timer.
    #2. Ground Hog Day?
    #3. Oh! Machine Learning!

  • @david_oliveira71
    @david_oliveira71 Před 5 lety +11

    I felt the point there was, "do not obey the laws. Defy the system and find another way, your way. A creative and unconventional way." Oh yes. Great video though. Loved watching it!

  • @llamaglitter
    @llamaglitter Před 5 lety +2

    Sine I finished Black Mirror, I have been binge watching these videos. I love them. They are very creative.

  • @story_time25
    @story_time25 Před 3 lety

    I think this video shows that there is no destination for success, after every step another step is waiting for you

  • @patrickvangelder1367
    @patrickvangelder1367 Před 4 lety +7

    Residence Evil : Alice has to find a way out of the complex that is boobytrapped. When she succeeds she finds a ditch filled with dead clones. Seen it already.

  • @lumberluc
    @lumberluc Před 5 lety +109

    Lady: 20
    Man: 62
    Man maybe dumb, but at least we're persistent.

    • @clarkent7574
      @clarkent7574 Před 4 lety +3

      God played the joke on man first. Adam Amen.

    • @CollectedEve
      @CollectedEve Před 4 lety +7

      Just bc it took him 62 tried to get to THAT point doesn't make him less intelligent.
      He likely tried many more rooms than her, being there were multiple options.

    • @SystemofEleven
      @SystemofEleven Před 4 lety +11

      I mean he could have just said "feck it" and rolled over to nap a lot more times than her...

    • @gregdingo
      @gregdingo Před 4 lety +4

      @@BoopSnoot maybe most things were created by men because women were mostly barred from participation until recently.

    • @emixonalgaert4376
      @emixonalgaert4376 Před 4 lety

      That's about me xD

  • @JeffSmith03
    @JeffSmith03 Před 3 lety +2

    My first thought when I saw the axe, "come on, the tree is not your goal!"

  • @toxik1769
    @toxik1769 Před 5 lety

    Every puzzle movie convined with every Time loop movie

  • @zed804
    @zed804 Před 4 lety +3

    Love it!! How many people thought of the game Portal when first seeing this?

  • @trooperandcooperale3057
    @trooperandcooperale3057 Před 5 lety +51

    At some point you got to axe yourself the question, what's it all about?

  • @gr33ntimer15
    @gr33ntimer15 Před 4 lety +2

    I'd love to see a feature length film or TV show with more back story and more characters

  • @forestlittke4649
    @forestlittke4649 Před 2 lety

    Millla Jovavich~ Resident evil, She had to repeat scernarios over and over UNTIL she escaped. Same plot as our girl in this show. She was perfectly cast for this,

  • @1SeanBond
    @1SeanBond Před 5 lety +38

    Wow so awesome!! So great to see my favorite Canadian girl!! Katharine Isabelle!! A great performance in this short A+ ...👍👍✌🇨🇦

    • @michaelm4550
      @michaelm4550 Před 5 lety +5

      Yes!! Another canuck 🇨🇦🇨🇦 🍁🍁 funny enough , a movie called The Cube is similar and also Canadian

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM Před 5 lety +1

      Maybe this was before she became the girl we saw in ginger snaps. Haha, what explain why she was so homicidal wouldn't it?

    • @1SeanBond
      @1SeanBond Před 5 lety +2

      Cube yes that was like this!! Cool stuff 👍✌

  • @trevornelmes9331
    @trevornelmes9331 Před 5 lety +31

    That's just depressing. Rather like Groundhog Day. Reminds me of our lives. The futility of it sometimes. No escape.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 Před 5 lety

      There is always a scape, you just have to be smarter

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 Před 5 lety +1

      Maybe instead of looking for an escape we should be looking for a way in?

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 Před 5 lety

      @@emilienmare1508 explain that pls, my brain cries

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 Před 5 lety +1

      I struggle with this myself but I guess instead of searching for a way "out of life" we could be completely immersed IN life. Completely aware of the magic of life, of every moment, every sound, every sensory feeling or emotional feeling, to truly be alive and to also really feel alive, what it's like to live and feel. Or like in the film to be truly immersed in something, life solving the problem in every room for them.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 Před 5 lety

      @@emilienmare1508 that makes sense, you should write a book confucio.Sorry for my english i am from chile xd

  • @sephyrartcore9523
    @sephyrartcore9523 Před 4 lety +1

    2 minutes in and I subcribed to the channel.
    Can't wait to discover more of these shorts

  • @floridaprepper751
    @floridaprepper751 Před rokem

    I first saw her in the movie ginger snaps in the early 2000's. A very good actress.

  • @rb032682
    @rb032682 Před 5 lety +15

    wow
    that tickled my brain a little

  • @violetbunny4548
    @violetbunny4548 Před 5 lety +8

    would be a good representation of thinking out of the box

  • @macadamianut1196
    @macadamianut1196 Před 5 lety

    If y’all ever make a movie I’ll be there to watch it as soon as it comes out I’ve been binging these for so long

  • @beerfairy1983
    @beerfairy1983 Před 4 lety +1

    I can't put my finger on why exactly, but I really liked this one... It actually slightly reminds me of 'The Cube'. Also it was very slick and very well acted, filmed and produced. An instant favourite.

  • @BigGift1
    @BigGift1 Před 5 lety +4

    Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.

  • @treeshasarkar4841
    @treeshasarkar4841 Před 5 lety +6

    when she hit the wall it was literally "out of the box"!

  • @vaniarlander4213
    @vaniarlander4213 Před 3 lety

    I thought I saw them in another similar film. Maybe this was an unused portion of that film. Also it’s very much like our day to day life. What have you learned thus far. How much of it is chance and do you like yourself enough to join in with what you have done before. You were, and have been, always mindful of helping the you that would progress. Otherwise you must start over. It was encouraging.

  • @johnneotaku4life
    @johnneotaku4life Před rokem +1

    This was excellent. Uniting and organizing can makes life's complexities a little less burdensome.

  • @yashizuko
    @yashizuko Před 5 lety +85

    Dem black mirror vibes

  • @ReedCBowman
    @ReedCBowman Před 5 lety +7

    Thanks for finally not squashing the end with your Dust outro. Music matters.

  • @DrachenGothik666
    @DrachenGothik666 Před 3 lety

    Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Think outside the box..." LOL

  • @scubaguy007
    @scubaguy007 Před 2 lety

    This depicts the life of an addict really well.

  • @avival66
    @avival66 Před 5 lety +17

    Original and good acting...bravo...l loved it💗💘💐🌼🐾🍄🌾🌲

  • @marianneodell7637
    @marianneodell7637 Před 5 lety +11

    Loved it! Get outta that damned box!
    I have to say,though, that my first inclination was to CLIMB the tree,not cut it down...
    Might that have made any difference?

  • @madaroad0311
    @madaroad0311 Před 3 lety

    this should be a series......its good

  • @Stasiaflonase
    @Stasiaflonase Před 5 lety +1

    This was fun and frustrating at the same time. Well done!!

  • @anafreitas1646
    @anafreitas1646 Před 5 lety +9

    Psychologically brilliant, truly awesome.
    The acting, layout, production, etc, etc, etc was amazing as well, very complementary to the idea(s).

  • @krishcshah
    @krishcshah Před 4 lety +37

    It feels scary to be there..!
    SPOILER ALERT: You already are!
    The Iteration is your new day
    She is living you
    Everything she does is your life
    And the maize is the rat race we all are in.

    • @FFF-xz6wn
      @FFF-xz6wn Před 3 lety

      Congratulations, you understand this worl!

    • @user-do8bk6kb9u
      @user-do8bk6kb9u Před 3 lety +1

      maize = corn. maze = . . . well, maze. :-)

  • @ADMNtek
    @ADMNtek Před 3 lety

    her facial expressions very accurately represent me whenever i have to reload a game over and over.

  • @selvabavaani
    @selvabavaani Před 5 lety +1

    It reminded me of Cube and Edge of tomorrow. Loved her reaction when she got fed up!! 😹😹😹