Resignation [Sci-Fi Short Film]
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2017
- This 13 minute sci-fi mini-epic follows a man on a road trip to a mysterious destination as apocalyptic events unfold. Shot on location in Big Bend National Park, and Austin, Texas.
Captured on the Sony A7s with Canon 16-35, 50, 85 lenses, to the Atomos Shogun. Edited in Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.
Written & Directed by Mike Ozmun
Produced by Rebel Hound Studios & Mike Ozmun
CAST
David Schmidt
Mike Ozmun
Ariel Gilman
Brynn Stewart
Chris Nenadal
Lindsey Coleman
Sam Tackman
Anthony LaSanta
CREW
Cinematography by Daniel Vestal
Music & Sound Design by David Ozmun
Editing & Visual Effects by Mike Ozmun
Special Prop created by Gray Barker
ADDITIONAL THANKS
The generous people of Terlingua, Texas
Big Bend Resort & Adventures
The guys at Austin Movie Gear: Keith Mullins, Nathan Wagoner, and John Sedlack
Jed Shirley, for your time and expertise.
Bonnie Jensen and Cliff Ozmun, for your support and indispensable feedback.
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Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to watch this film. I know your time is valuable, and I hope you found it to be time well-spent. I have been absolutely floored by the outpouring of generous feedback that has been posted in the comments! Thank you! I could not have done this without the hard work and belief of so many people. To those who chose to subscribe, I have new and original content on the way that I hope will reward your choice to sub to my channel. God bless, and thank you all.
This is well done! I hope to see more work from you soon!
This type of feedback is rare indeed. I think CZcams feedback is usually close to the mark; this is no exception.
It is soo hard to make something really good. And the criticism, when one falls short, must hurt. I respect the attempts and deeply appreciate the successes, like this one.
i subbed. the film is gorgeous. i am filmmaker too, and would love if you could share the technical details around the shoot, and achieving such a stunning final image
Darion D'Anjou that might take awhile. is there a specific aspect of production you're most interested in?
you should turn this in a tv series idea Michael
Seriously ... Hollywood can go away. The true storytellers, the real creativity, is all underground. Such a great film!!!❤️
God yes, so sick of batman etc
@@larapalma3744 yes the superhero rubbish
@@larapalma3744 same here about Batman, but I hear Spiderman 78 is coming out. I think I'll get in line now....... or not
It's the same with music. Lots of great music to be had, but most is underground and local.
@@larapalma3744 So tired of the Woke Hollywood Agenda!
Every sci-fi movie should have the line.... we've been doing this for thousands of years.
What a cracking little film, mainstream film makers should sit up and take notice, I enjoyed it more than I have the trash around at the moment,
Wow a 13 min short that is better then 80% of the hollywood 2 hour movies! Great acting, the cinematography was awesome, the plot was spot on, the ending left me thinking! What more can you ask for!
I not complaining, simply making a point. People who have hearing difficulties can not understand the dialog with the music at high levels. A lot of time it just in the beginning of the movie but by the time the music is turned down or removed the person with hearing difficulty never quite gets the gist of the movie. Maybe tone down the music on your next movie.
"Your two planets from retirement!" I love that line.
"You're" ... But yeah, great line. The viewer is given so much information through inference.
Nice. Nothing explained, everything implied. Imaginative, subtle, stimulating. Well acted.
I wish I could say that I am two planets away from retirement.
Most days, I feel two planets from retirement lol
This movie is like an epic ode to the love for a woman… Reminds me of a dream my late spouse had. He died of complications from diabetes: both eyes operated, open heart surgery, dialysis, and loss of right leg. He dreamed God said to him that he (God) would restore him back to perfect health, but that he (my husband) would have to give up his fiancée (me). He told God that if that was the price, then he would remain as he was… How I miss my beloved and this movie made me remember about his dream… Great movie, simple, sublime, and EXCELLENT.
Sounds like a wondeful spouse, thank you for sharing that! It is very much a tribute to the power of love!
Every frame is like a painting. Brilliant film by my friend, Mike Ozmun.
That was very thoughtful. Told a whole alien take over story in 13 minutes. You're use of dialog was interesting too. No dialog at all for 6 minutes but you still managed to set up the world, character, and plot. There were some slight audio issues with the dialog at the end, but other than that, it was a top notch short. This definitely helps to inspire possibilities for my own shorts. Great job!
Just watched it, and have watched it a dozen times. The music is perfect, the cinematography is very well done, the concept is so cool. Some pretty deep moments like the 'invitation of the Almighty' scene. Better than many movies out there!
Thank you so much!
when you love someone more than life itself
This is probably the fourth or fifth time I've watched this over the months. It's really really good. Thanks.
Awesome.....thank you for putting this up!
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful film and inspiring comments.
On a lighter note: When a Tiktok ad interrupted at 3:52, I thought, "Here's a perfect juxtaposition -- the best and worst the internet offers us!"
Michael Ozmun Production I've watched hundreds or more Shorts and never have I been able to call one "perfect". ....until now! You hit the nail right on the head. I finally found the word(s) to describe this film. I, too have to agree that this Short is more than phenomenal, more than amazing. This film reaches beyond those adjectives, far beyond. "This is perfect!" Congratulations, Mr. Ozmun; you can now say that you've accomplished something that very few of us can say. You've made the PERFECT film!
Scott Watkins thank you. you're too kind, but I love that you loved it!
It put the hook straight away, sad but good movie. Puts the Hollywood blockbusters to shame...... Excellent stuff, thank you
Well Done! She wasn’t afraid to die. He found his heart and discovered his Soul!
Hello Mike. The entirety of this artwork is so understated that, for me, the only word which comes to mind is...sublime. The soundtrack bears such a healthy dose of "hope", yet heralding a doomsday scenario. The acting is, as mentioned, understated, and absolutely inspiring. A truly magical piece of work...My sincerest Thank You for this creation. Myndpeace
Myndpeace Jones thank you!
The music is perfect for this film. Side note: for a moment I thought the little girl was the alien.
Charles Schleicher me too!
mighta been! lol
The music was too damn loud!
Awesome movie !!! But the music was Way too loud and the voices were too soft to understand .
Still a Great movie that I'd love to see expanded !!!
This short absolutely blows away any pair of shorts that I have in my dresser drawer.
good one!
Fantastic film! So well made and acted, with an excellent premise. I love the heavy, ethereal music but I just wish the dialogue was clearer at times - or at least have subtitles. I could not understand a word the woman said at the end, and had to trawl the comments to find out.
Thank you for the kind words. The audio problems are definitely a giant blemish on this project, one that I would do differently if I could go back. Alas, there is no fixing it at this point, for myriad reasons I've gone over in other comments, but I decided to leave it up here because this project meant a lot to me. Hope to have more short films up in the coming months that will feature the same soul but vastly improved production quality. Thank you again for watching, and taking the time to leave a thoughtful comment!
This PIECE was not a Film.....It qualifies as a short MOVIE! This piece [as in ARTWORK!] was a mind gripping, soul grabbing, the body engaging, a thought-provoking dream to watch. I'm going to keep the Director Cliff Ozmun, on my radar
Thanks!
You know it's good when you want more, but got enough to leave you thinking. Great job.
Then he wakes up on a strange planet, where he has no name, just the number 6, and the guards keep interrogating him to find out why he resigned...
Excellent story, awesome actors , especially the dude with the cowboy hat on. I didn't want this movie to end, best short I've ever seen.
This film is a perfect example of less being more. The dialogue was minimal, and it was more powerful for it.
Thank you!
"If God is calling me home, who am I to refuse the invitation of the Almighty?"
Perfect submission, abandonment, surrender, resignation to the will of God.
For me, a turning point came when these moments of surrender to the Divine brought stupendous joy. Nothing rivals this experience -- nothing.
he dont exist u fool. bible was written to control and calm the sheep, nothing else.
THE best short film I've ever witnessed. Stunning!! Music fits perfectly. Great character acting. A keeper in my favs.
I'd love to see a full length version of this idea.
This is the best short film I have ever seen........The young girl in the field looking upward and her face so photographic with those haunting beautiful eyes was dreamlike and surreal....Hope to see more of your works..Thanks for this wonderful short movie...
Great short film! If I had to listen to the background music without the video, I would go bonkers in about 7 minutes, as it is, it perfectly sustains the tension of the story. Good work!
I am moved. Lean dialog, grand scope, atmospheric music, stunning backdrop. Thank you and do us all a favor and continue your calling.
Thank you for this.
seriously freaking amazing. It really puts you there with them 2. No cardboard acting or dialogue, seemed made well with care. You guys did amazing!
This was so well put together, absolutely beautiful and thought provoking. A real piece of art.
I really liked this....spoke of love and spiritual connection. Nicely done.
A masterpiece! This goes to show how films are supposed to
create characters and beauty in our minds not on the screen. Somebody
understands art in film very well here.
Beautiful; quiet and considered and evocative of many ideas regarding life and death as well as our place in the universe.
Global Nomad thank you, and your analysis of the themes is spot on.
Mike Ozmun Unconventional and absolutely inspiring.
A.C.C. Films Thank you!
Where's your analysis of the themes? I'd like to read it
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I loved this. I don't know what others are saying, i could hear the conversation and i thought the music fit perfectly. Well done, I so want to explore the backstory of these two guys. I loved the little things like the voice o the radio repeating "stay in doors , don't impede emergency workers.....dont try to help anyone" you know things are dire when your being directed to not help anyone!
Totally agree about the music ,its a backdrop of sublime intensity,with space[no pun intended] perfect for the scenery ,and dialogue.
That laugh and dat punch tho
There are few shorts that make you feel as if you have watched a full movie or capture you such that you invariably get in an argument with another viewer about what was, what is, and what could have been. Good job.
This film was absolutely breathtaking! The subtlty of the plot, which leaves you guessing, and causes your mind to fill in the missing pieces of what was so beautifully implied, but never stated, allows the viewer to draw their own conclusions, so that we each come away with a different idea of just what, exactly, is going on throughout the film...what humanity's fate will be...what the two men's roles are in it all...why he decided to stay even though the love of his life had passed on...all of it was left up to viewer's imagination to decide. A feat of such subtlety is enormously difficult to pull off, and can only be done when all of the pieces--the acting, the writing, and all the rest--come together to make a beautiful whole, which is exactly what this did! It's rare that I'm in awe of a film, but I'm in awe of this one! Exquisitely perfect, in every way! Congratulations! This was beautifully well done!
Thank you so much for watching, and for your insightful comment. I can't tell you how rewarding it is as an artist, when people are picking up what you're putting down.
@@MikeOzmun You're welcome! I truly hope to see more from you in the future! As a writer, I know how hard it is to pull of a work of art such as this, and you did so brilliantly! This was by far the best short film I've seen on CZcams, and that's saying a great deal, as I've seen some truly excellent pieces!
You're very gracious! Thank you again. Your kind words mean a lot!
I wondered.
I laughed.
I cried.
Goes on my SHORT LIST of ALL TIME FAVORITES.
...and then I started to watch!
Thankyou for this gift. My heart is bigger now. I can feel it. The best short film I have ever seen.
Thank you! That makes me very happy!
Nice one Mike. I'm sorry it took me three years to catch up with your work.
Nice filming location..."who am I to refuse the invitation of the almighty" - I like that.
Sometimes 'quality' just shines through. It did with this short. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Kudos well deserved.
Well, I quite enjoyed this.
Well done.
This is very touching. We are all star stuff, billions of years old. Just preparing to go home.
Thought provoking, well executed, the acting is excellent, the music adding the right touch of atmosphere (albeit a bit overpowering in one scene but no biggie). No over-the-top drama , cookie-cutter knock off, just simplistic, basic, refreshing storytelling at its finest... the kind that takes your mind to other possibilities and lets it roam free. Reminiscent of one of my favs growing up, Bradbury. I have watched it 3 times and have been in awe each time. During this last viewing I picked up on a slight editing error but I also saw a few nuances that were very nice touches, adding depth to the scenes. Its not often I revisit things I have already read or seen. It takes something really special to just blow me away like this has. You have a new subscriber in me because I want more!!! LOL WELL DONE!!
Thank you for this thoughtful comment, the repeat viewings, and for the sub! I have more content in the works. Been so busy with paid work the last year and a half I haven't added content at the rate I would like. But with the sub count closing in on 1k, and the views nearing a quarter million, I've been working really hard on new content I plan to publish here over the next few months.
Very moving short film.
This is my #1 short film. I’ve watch this a hundred times.
Thank you!
I read the comments and they are so knowing I guess I couldn't see what they watched the film was very thoughtful.thanks
I really enjoyed that, it was different. Well made, sound and music good, acting better than most shorts. A definite subscription.
Thank you
Tremendously heartbreaking. Astounding.!
Bro great great job on this short film project the story was well written and very clear... and you directed the hell out of this project
Intriguing. If only 'Close Encounters...' had been so short!
Ex.cellent film. A real deep look at the place of Earth and humankind in the universe. Would love to see other films by this group.
thank you
thank *you*
If you've never been to Big Bend, it's well worth the trip.
I find it amazing that I feel more intertwined by these free short films than I have by many feature length Hollywood films.
Excellent short - very thought provoking as one tries to figure out where/what/why of his intentions. Sort of figured it out after awhile that he and this "UFO" were somehow connected as he was resigning from something he cared about on earth so the "ending" was an interesting twist. Kind of thought the young girl was also part of a group to be "taken" back.
The acting was phenomenal, the music fits what he is feeling from beginning to end. When his friend says will see you again is ominous.
Its good and thought provoking, I have watched this 3 times now. Each time has been a little different, maybe it depends what mood I am in. Thankyou for making it
Thank you for the repeat views!
This is beyond a doubt my favorite sci- fi short film. Well done!
A lovely film about the end of the world. I wouldn’t expect that those two concepts could occupy the same space.
Humans had it coming.
„You are two planets from retirement.“
It’s the same all over the universe😉
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR NEXT VIDEOS
Brilliant! Gratitude 🙏💙
That's a resignation from this life on earth and its planet scorching culture....very deep.....! :o
Beautifully done Mike - it did break my heart though - I felt the lady has passed away and the basic star of the show waited for his own ending whatever it was going to turn out to be. Naive as I am I just hoped it was Hashem - God.
I'm a latecomer , dear Michael, but this movie deserved each one of the accolades. Even when someone below had a criticism, they handled it with grace, almost apologetically. Excellent.
Thank you! That is very kind. The comments have been very gracious and encouraging. I had such a wonderful cast and crew that went beyond the call and I owe them all a great debt of gratitude and credit for this project.
Extremely well done!!
The background music is so loud it drowns out the news on the radio.
"Always leave them wanting more." Well, sir, you have left this viewer wanting more. Excellent work!
Thank you, I loved watching it. I only wish it continued!
Fantastic, Open Minded.
BELLISSIMO !!!! BRAVI !!!!
This is the second time I’ve seen this short. Second time I’ve thought “nicely done”. The cowboy missed the guy with his punch, though. That’s the only criticism I have. Full marks.
Thank you for the second viewing and the feedback, Andrew!
Sweet and poignant. Lovely job!
Watching in 2021-intriguing and suspenseful. Would love to see more of this story. This was satisfying to my intellect. And like someone else said, Hollywood can go away!
Good job! Really liked the end.
But what happened at the end? Did he poison her tea, or did she die naturally?
Yes, he had obviously planned to go but then chose not to because of the impact the woman had on him. What was the impact? What did I miss?
Very nice indeed. Well done.
Excellent! Alltogether new perspective. Love it. 👍👍
I watch this over and over again....much love to you, Mike!
Thank you!
Highly impressive acting. Top quality.
I haven't felt compelled to give my opinion on a short in quite some time as most of them fall short of being able to say anything polite. This one is different.
Very well done. Cinematography was creative. The plot is simple with subtle enough complexity to captivate. The dialogue is also simple thus lending to believability and the acting was far better than most shorts with amateur actors in them.
It deserves saying twice; Very, very well done.
That is very kind. Thank you!
Came back and watched it again... Still wonderful!
Best movie I have seen 🕷️🕸️🌹👍
I wish more movies were made like this.
There are, hundreds of movies just like this.....Better actually, this was a 2/10 on my scale.
This is probably the best, most evocative short I have seen in a long, long time. Very well done and nearly perfect. I can't really find a significant flaw. One thing it shows: you don't need explosions, robots or tons of exposition to make a great piece of apocalyptic science fiction. I'm not much of an emotional person but this made a major and quite unexpected impact on them. This should be developed into a feature film. If it were, I, for one, would watch it more than once. Oh - and subscribed.
Regards - Dave
dgwachtel thank you so much for the kind words. i have done some work to develop this into a feature, but I'm so backlogged with other projects on my plate, that it has had to go to the back burner, for now at least. Thank you for subscribing! I have some new projects on the way that I will be sharing on this page, that I am hoping will really reward everyone who subbed after watching this film.
Mike, not at all, it was my pleasure, thank you for making such great cinema art. I'm looking forward to following your and your colleagues careers.
I can emphasize with the ransomware disaster. Years ago I had about a quarter of a novel, probably about forty plus pages disappear when an old mfm disk drive went south. I had tape backups, but the tapes were also unreadable. I even sent the drive off to a rescue firm in California, Jerry Pournelle's son's company as it turned out. Without doing work that I couldn't possibly afford, the data on the disk was unrecoverable. I tried to duplicate it from memory but it wasn't the same. I also got extremely busy with my software career and motor racing so I abandoned the project. Except for some half hearted attempts at short stores, it was my last attempt at writing a novel. Making art is difficult! Unfortunately, with ransomware, unless you either pay the crook to obtain the private key, or have access to CIA supercomputers, the encrypted data is unrecoverable.
In semi retirement, I've gained an unsought after hobby of cleaning the malware, rootkits, bloatware and adware from my relatives Windows machines. The record is something like 60+ infections! They appreciate the results as, unlike big box "techs", I can do it without erasing or destroying their data. This process sometimes takes days to do properly though.
For the last ten years at least, I've been running dual boot Linux/Windows on most of my machines and only use Windows for games or a few applications that don't have Linux equivalents. Linux attackers mainly go after corporate servers, so with a hardware firewall, virus protection and with good on line practices, the individual user is pretty safe. The later Apple OS is based on BSD, a very good UNIX variant I worked with years ago, so it too is relatively safe from most malicious attacks.
Anyway - best of luck and regards - Dave
dgwachtel I wish I had met you before I wiped my drives and re-installed Windows then! lol
Mike -
Thanks, but there was probably little I could have done after the attack. If I had, this is much of what I would have advised.
Lots of long winded gratuitous advice follows :)
In the prior post, I mentioned using supercomputers to brute force find a decryption key. I was incorrect. It's not possible even in the near future, even by using state of the art quantum computers. Using a desktop computer it would take years measured at least in the millions to find a key.
crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9480/assuming-a-1024qb-quantum-computer-how-long-to-brute-force-1024bit-rsa-256bit
In the link below, they refer to file recovery software. Using these, it may have been possible to recover many(?) of your files, provided that either the regular drive or the backup was about half full. I use Piriform Recuva, it's really good. Some machines I've cleaned needed to have deleted system files recovered as these files with updated patches were not available. In most cases Recuva was able to find the OS files that the virus deleted and restore them.
I used to have a bootable thumb drive with all of that stuff on it. There are also free DVD's that have various recovery tools available. It's a good idea to burn one and to get familiar with usage. They are generally pretty user friendly.
The latest attack, from May of this year, was "WannaCry". Here's a good explanation of how it worked and possible recovery options.
medium.com/threat-intel/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-821c7e3f0a2b That advice might also apply to future ransom ware.
MS was so freaked out that they issued a patch for XP! Newer versions of Windows were patched in May. I only have XP on my dual boot machines. I can't afford MS ridiculous pricing for their newer OS's and most everything I need is on Linux and XP. I had been doing Android development and all the tools for this are on Linux and are free! I use Kdenlive for video editing and Audacity (and others) for audio. Both are not quite as good as what is available on Windows, but are OK for what I need and are also free. They are a little finicky though.
Most antivirus programs would have detected "wannacry", or at least informed the user regarding the vulnerability to it.
Two important routine tasks: first update the OS as soon as new updates are released; second keep your antivirus up to date. For MS it's "patch Tuesday". For Unbuntu Linux it's as they become available. For Apple, I have no idea.
If your antivirus is payware, make sure to renew. Many of the machines I've cleaned were infected simply because the users forgot to renew their subscriptions. Some were many years out of date. Stay away from Norton or Symantic. I'ts been my experience that they infest your system and are hard to completely uninstall plus they bog the machine down by (guessing) 20 to 30 percent - not good. They also were unstable and provoked many BSODs (Blue Screen Of Death).
Two things that might help in the future, (although I don't think it would have made a difference with WC). Make two accounts on your machine. One an administrative account and the other a user account. Do your regular computing on the user (non privileged) account. Typing in you credentials to run system tasks is a pain but is safer. Ubuntu Linux works this way by default.
I use Avast or Windows Defender (or whatever it's being called these days) with Malware Bytes as a adjunct for occasional on demand scanning. Install only one antivirus program, they don't play nice with one another. On Linux I used Avast but they no longer support that platform so I now use the open source ClamAV Antivirus. There may be better ones available however.
It's best to make backups when disconnected from the internet and after a virus scan and then disconnect the backup drive(s) from the computer. Backing up an infected system is semi-useless, hence the full scan before backing up.
The internet - it's a jungle out there - be careful!
- Dave
dgwachtel thanks Dave! wealth of great info there. i use webroot, and i make sure to renew. unfortunately, webroot wasn't able to catch my ransomware incoming, probably because of the method of delivery, trojan horsed onto an email from a first name from your contacts list. very clever.
Brilliant work!! Love it! Please continue to make profound ART.
Definitely time well spent! I too would love to see a full length version of this idea
This is the second time I've watched this!
I still cried.....cried at the beauty of a simple, wonderful story......of unconditional love. And how love changes us....and how God brings us home in due time. And how God heals us and makes us whole, again.
I always long for an alien encounter movie, that unfolds in a new and amazing way. The intimacy of this movie made it much more real and heartfelt, than filling it with special effects and technological speculation. You really showed how few props and little exposition is needed, if the story and the emotions of the characters are powerful. Great work !
Stunning work, thank you
AMAZING!!!!! Thank YOU for creating this WONFERFUL short I LOVED IT!!!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!