Contact
(12:46)This 2018 short film was presented by Dust in 2019.
Two men are sitting in a field, having an intimate conversation, when suddenly one of them vanishes. We learn that there were thousands of pods with simulated environments for each of the survivors of Earth, en route to a new planet to live on. Each person is alone in their pod, but have- or had- contact via a holographic network. The majority of the film is one man named Jason, trying to figure out what's going on by communicating with his pod's AI, which is slowly losing functionality. It's a very minimalist film, but deeply harrowing because of the helplessness and confusion Jason feels, as he comes closer to a vague understanding the fate that awaits him....