Sci-Fi Short Film "Back to the Gaia"

Sci-Fi Short Film "Back to the Gaia" | DUST

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An action to save to world, a clinging mourning of her father, the metamorphosis of a girl in her fighting with loneliness and fear.
"Back to the Gaia" by Chen Xiaomeng
More About "Back to the Gaia":
After the collision with an asteroid, the earth's magnetic field had been broken, it was still inhabitable for human beings in the year 2013. To survive, human had started to construct the sanctuary in outer space. Many geologists were compelled to exploit non-ferrous metals. For most of them, it was a one-way road to death. Lola’s father was one of these geologists. He was deeply in love with the abandoned earth, he believed that the SG106 he researches on could bring human back to earth. But he didn’t see it come until the end. Many years later, Lola, who misses her father very much, carries out the unfulfilled wish of him. She steps on this strange planet, looking for the the secret of returning to earth.
"Back to the Gaia" Credits:
Cast:
Lora - Xinmo Ma
K - Wenhao Zha
Lora's Father - Peng Yan
Crew:
Director - Xiaomeng Chen & Le Luo
Log keeper - Sha Lee
Director of Photography - Rui Zhong
1st Assistant Cameraman - Eryang Cao
Assistant Cameramans - Jiaqi Zhang, Junfeng Cao
Lighting engineer - Kunpeng Liu
1st Assistant lighting engineer - Yanfeng Sun, Jun Lee
Assistant lighting engineers - Pengfei Liu, Fei Teng, Guoping Sun , Junfei Sun Zhigang Cao, Qiwang Sun, Hui Deng
Camera Checker - Yu Chen
Stage photo - Zi Cheng
Conceptual Design - Xu Tianhua
Art director - Xiaoyu Wang
Set Decorator Leader - Hongwen Chen
Assistant Editors - Jian Liu
Original Score - Zi YI, Xiansheng An
Costume designer - Bao Wang
Makeup assistants - Guannan Wang, Huimin Shi
Dubbers - Wenhao Zha, Yanming Mo, Yin Feilong
Subtitle translator - Ge Mu
Producers - Wei He
Production manager - Feilong Yin
Producer - Dan Chen
External producer - Lei Luo, Jixiang Liu
On-the-spot producer - Qingyuan Yang, Heng Huang
Administrator - Jie Wang
Grips - Xiaobo Zeng, Jie Lee, Changbo Yu
POST RRODUCTION
CGI Supervisor - Allen Wei
Assets Supervisor - Allen Wei
Producer Manager - Myron Cai
Production Manager - Sherry Wang
Matte Painting Leader - XianYang
Matte Painting Arist - Russell Lee, Jinqian Ma
Modeling & Texture Leader - Yang Su
Modeling & Texture Artists - Derek Liu, Stephen Wang, Russell Lee, Lan Yu, Tony Li, Shanshan Liu
Stereo Effect Artists - Yihe Wang , Xiaohan Zhou
Colorist - Yuxin Liu
Audio producer - BEIJING GOLDEN CICADA FILM
Sound Designer - Yang Jiang
Sound Production manager - Zhao Nan
ADR Recordist - Tian Zi
Sound Editors - Chen Yu Tong, Zhang Rui Ming
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@SD_FANZ209 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see the Ghosts from "Destiny 2" are still helping humanity! Wonder if she becomes a Guardian...🤔 😅😅👍

@LEV1ATAN Жыл бұрын

2? what hapen whit the first

@SeanFlynnNB Жыл бұрын

@@LEV1ATAN They changed voice actors. ;-)

@rhysvizsla9096 Жыл бұрын

@@SeanFlynnNB I miss the Dinklage ghost.

@Adnine235 Жыл бұрын

She would definitely be a Titan main.

@NATALEMPL Жыл бұрын

Destiny ghost :)

@natet3345 Жыл бұрын

I love the fact that the music when she first starts descending is hopeful rather than foreboding. It's a beautiful sentiment to the idea of possibilities rather than fear. Sound can change everything.

@reghasell Жыл бұрын

Can't go wrong with Hans Zimmer, it's from Interstellar.

@najun1verse Жыл бұрын

Thats what i was thinking!

@ddtyterminator5018 Жыл бұрын

let us just pretend they did not just use some of the interstellar music in the background

@ChrisPBacon-py4pq Жыл бұрын

@@ddtyterminator5018 yeahhhh that's kinda . . .

@kayskreed Жыл бұрын

I liked the concept similar to 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' and the visuals were nice, but my word, the character's actions made no sense and there was quite a few logical plot holes as well. For instance, if the air is unbreathable on the surface, then why no helmet to go along with the spacesuit? Things like that. Also, I have no idea what happened at the end. Her ship was damaged beyond repair, she would have been dying of heat / suffocation, but then she puts the thingy into the thingy and magically reemerges on the surface unscathed? The planet is 'fixed' just like that? Was that supposed to be a piece of xenotech or what? How did it end up there in the first place? I dunno, kinda meh if you ask me. Good idea on paper, though.

@sleeplessstu Жыл бұрын

Hmmm… nice graphics but I think there needs to be a little more storyline here. Does she somehow “restore” the magnetic field of the earth by blowing up an underground cavern full of an unknown geologic specimen discovered by her father ? How did she fix her broken ship to escape the cave ? I guess maybe you don’t even NEED a story when you’ve got a competent hottie in a cool spaceship 😂

@danielcostello4041 Жыл бұрын

I see the team are Destiny 2 Fans. One of my first thought is that she has a Ghost. At the end, it looks like a scene out of Rifts. Nicely done. One question, why is the ship's computer speaking in English when no one else is?

@mikeshaelyhill896 Жыл бұрын

Ha I saw the ghost and had to make sure I clicked on the correct video. Surprised Bungie hasn't requested the video be taken down because of the ghost lol

@TheRealNappyG Жыл бұрын

Definitely want to see more of this storyline! Want to know what happened to Earth after the magnetic field is restored. And this character. Very compelling, some great CGI too. Great job,Team!

@sinan2.71 Жыл бұрын

This brings back the sense of wonder that has been sorely missing today. Good job!

@hellothere4507 Жыл бұрын

A first one to comment on a fresh DUST release. And a good one! Am honored.

@thegeohistorian Жыл бұрын

Not sure if that was a nod to No Mans Sky, but it sure looked like the Atlas! NIcely done!

@regolith2780 Жыл бұрын

Yes ! And the robot like the thingy in Destiny

@ICU1337 Жыл бұрын

I'll forgo the nitpicking on this but there is something thats hard to just ignore and look past... If she destroyed her craft beyond repair, then how is it that she flies away happily into the sunset at the end... 🤨

@sleeplessstu Жыл бұрын

There are just a few slight holes in the plot 😂… was there a plot ?

@ICU1337 Жыл бұрын

@@sleeplessstu I'm assuming that if there was a plot, it translates better in Chinese than it does in English 🤷🏽‍♂️ And it's ashame because I usually like Chinese "Hollywood" stuff 😔

@AMPATL Жыл бұрын

It's so interesting to watch these short films, you quickly realize that cool CGI works only when it supports a good story.

@ScottStratton Жыл бұрын

I believe the last scene is supposed to depict a future where the mysterious new element has allowed humans to build floating cities on the Earth.

@ICU1337 Жыл бұрын

@@ScottStratton I like this theory. Makes more sense that this scene doesnt take place directly after the events but a year or 5 years later 👏🏽

@BonkersAboutAlice Жыл бұрын

Nothing old or stale about anything with DUST in it.

@AcapulKero Жыл бұрын

Excellent short. I would like to see more of this story, maybe a whole movie? Great actress!

@dan_mulligan Жыл бұрын

Very well done technically, in a production sense, but the story line was weak and confusing. Sg106 with a half-life of 21 seconds; that would be Seaborgium 266, only produced artificially (not even detected astronomically), which decays almost immediately to other radioactive elements, and within a few minutes to Thorium & Radium (long before you could find it). What does this have to do with magnetic fields, or anti-gravity. Ah! Floating islands! ... with water that flows from somewhere and off the edge, forever. And this will make everything better! Now it all makes sense. Sorry ... I realize this is fiction, but I was just hoping for more. Nonetheless, the floating islands are cool.

@WellWisdom. Жыл бұрын

It looks awesome. It is sad that plot armor and inconsistent world rules, subtracts a lot from the experience.

@malachiXX Жыл бұрын

I have to agree. Either you needed to know the backstory intimately or there is a lot lost in translation. Not to mention her survival when the roof caved in while she was falling.

@erreemebeerreemebe8178 Жыл бұрын

Great popcorn movie Lora and K make a wonderful team. Wonderful job CONGRATULATIONS,

@Silas-lc9op Жыл бұрын

If the cities are floating and the waterfalls drop off of them(which looked awesome), where does the water come from to allow it to do that?

@leeakers4525 Жыл бұрын

Good film. Action without being overwhelming with booms fire and smoke. Good tension, and a hopeful resolve. In my mind, everything a good science fiction movie should be,

@ParadymShiftVegan Жыл бұрын

This was fire. Definitely one of the better Dust films I've seen

@coreyb2923 Жыл бұрын

Loved it , More positive Sci-fi please ♥️💯💪🏽

@rbshoemaker Жыл бұрын

Wild story idea! The theory and scientific idea is unique and creative! Would love to see a full length feature exploring more of the causes and effects of such a potential threat to our earth! The potential story line could create a world where we must deal with the catastrophic consequences of such a threat! Please continue!

@mamawestman1357 Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful and well done short

@def-po8tu 6 ай бұрын

I've wondered where did all the creative original content go from mainstream Hollywood and now I know it all went to dust......great content

@GySgtRay Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT!! The actress is fantastic, as well as, storyline and special effects! I loved it! Well done!

@liquidsonly Жыл бұрын

SciFy from China. Awesome.

@bau-gugmbh1959 Жыл бұрын

Geh scheissn

@OniMetsuki Жыл бұрын

So close to being excellent. Clearly a lot of work and passion went into this. Just let down by a few bits jarring the overall experience letting this short film down. I hope you do more shorts though and learn from this experience :)

@rakibhasan8016 Жыл бұрын

Watched The Expanse recently, loving sci Fi more and more. A nice addition.

@gamerbath7921 Жыл бұрын

Im looking for some good sci-fi series and i searched for "The Exapanse" on amazon prime and i got 6 different series under the same name.......... Could you help me pick out which series it is, just the season count would be helpful.

@alxjamor3094 Жыл бұрын

@@gamerbath7921 yeah because The Expanse is composed in total of 6 seasons

@Sea-Keith Жыл бұрын

2015-2022, A little tricky there,because it was picked up by Amazon Prime after not being aired for A while,so what you are searching may be the same series..

@joebloggs6922 Жыл бұрын

The Expanse is probably one of the best sci fi series of all time, and most definitely the most realistic depiction of futuristic space travel. The amount of details they put in to make it as realistic as possible is insane. They had a team of physicist working on the series all the way through.

@dougpage2730 10 ай бұрын

Excellent! One of my favorite Dust films to date. Five stars!

@ericchild8845 Жыл бұрын

Awesome work. Need more of these please.

@erreemebeerreemebe8178 Жыл бұрын

The history reminds me the "Journey to the center of the earth" by Jules Verne.

@IngoSchwarze Жыл бұрын

Indeed, especially going down so deeply, finding giant mushrooms in the depths, being swept further down by water, and coming up to the surface again in what resembles a volcanic eruption. The stakes are higher in this film, though - Verne's characters weren't trying to save the earth, but merely to explore.

@alikigeorgiou8499 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully filmed story and amazing graphics - would love to see a sequel! 🤩

@anthonydoyle3837 Жыл бұрын

I am surprised Activision has not put a copyright claim on this video since they are directly ripping off the ghost from destiny video

@Anzac7RAR Жыл бұрын

Ghost is Bungies property lol

@Jdavidbryant777 Жыл бұрын

Well it'll be fun to see how long this stays up after Bungie hits them with a copyright strike :D

@Albtraum_TDDC Жыл бұрын

For which game?

@ICU1337 Жыл бұрын

@@Albtraum_TDDC Destiny

@SiCaRiO0o0 Жыл бұрын

that drone design is from destiny game

@GilbertoBanuelos Жыл бұрын

The Destiny 2 references in this film were pretty cool. 😁

@mlh4711 Жыл бұрын

great short and great choice of lead...............she is very easy on the eye and a good actress. Hats off to Xinmo Ma.

@vincentanguoni8938 Жыл бұрын

So much of this stuff out there!!! Incredible!! This is great quality...and a protagonist with presence....do they make money???? My question.....

@bjb7587 Жыл бұрын

Poisonous atmosphere! She dons a suit with no helmet. I'm good!

@lonewulfmo9128 Жыл бұрын

Art will keep humanity together when politics, ethnicity n ideology are tearing us apart. Enjoyed the chinese scifi tale.

@nathancl2k Жыл бұрын

Ha! A Destiny ghost. Activision has joined the chat.

@PunditKING Жыл бұрын

Spoilers CGI A+, story C, story break down ; wants magufin, wants to do something reckless to get magufin, told don't do that, oh it still worked after doing it but causes another problem, repeat and doesn't get hurt from anything. Gets magufin.

@cell2086 Жыл бұрын

Eyes up Lora!

@tardismole 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful. I love it. The images and music complimented each other perfectly.

@SuperDiddzz Жыл бұрын

WOW!! Wonderful, thank you.

@legend9335 Жыл бұрын

Glad she saw the gravity of the situation.

@dannysolid Жыл бұрын

Outstanding movie! Well done!

@russward2612 Жыл бұрын

Graphics were astounding, story was confusing, I give it a good solid 'meh'.

@Albtraum_TDDC Жыл бұрын

Too much word-salad nonsense. This is more like disjointed fantasy than science fiction. Reminded me of crap like "journey to the center of the earth", in a bad way. Also it's better to get a translator who is fluent in English and passable in Chinese, than a translator who is fluent in Chinese and passable in English. A lot of the sentences were obviously wrong translation or bad flow.

@sealkh Жыл бұрын

I've always been curious in movies, how they hold a flashlight in front of their eyes in a dark cave and still able to see what's in front of them

@AccAkut1987 Жыл бұрын

The light fixture is also used for the background music speakers 🤫

@jkobain Жыл бұрын

In this case, they did a backlight in the hazmat suit, in the back of her head.

@zyberus316 Жыл бұрын

wait...what? that's a Ghost from Destiny~

@stevenscott2136 Жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to see the Lament Configuration in a Chinese sci-fi movie. 😁

@freddybonilla2472 Жыл бұрын

It's an out of this world sci-fi

@atorres603 Жыл бұрын

I am glad they decided to go back to the original design for the Destiny Ghost. I am sure she will make a good Guardian after she passes. 🙂

@jonah_.l 9 ай бұрын

whoa this is one of my favourites also the mandarin is absolutely flawless, im impressed

@pj4092 Жыл бұрын

Well done, fun. It bothers me though, that in so many movies, whenever a woman runs from danger she always has to trip and fall down.

@chrishewitt1165 Жыл бұрын

The flying Rubik's Cube is cute

@hunterxhunter7174 7 ай бұрын

I think it comes from out there chronicles

@TransitionTakeover 4 ай бұрын

This was epic

@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar Жыл бұрын

If Bungie finds out about this... 1. Ship is exact copy of a Cabal Thresher 2. Literal Destiny Ghost 3. Weird Polygon that manipulates gravity and is probably evil

@aarikawe Жыл бұрын

Be careful. 343 is going through some hard times. They might be in a mood about this.

@jimwagner6260 Жыл бұрын

Fun movie. Thanks for the subtitles.

@pauls5745 Жыл бұрын

amazing story about an adventurous spirit!

@frybread5o Жыл бұрын

this is literally Destiny fanfic... I'm not mad at it

@jamesmorgan3032 Жыл бұрын

Solid production reinforced with hope and resolution.

@happychappy492 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this one , good story and it had a good ending not like most of the others they leave you hanging at the end wondering what happened thank you

@TheReverb1 Жыл бұрын

so would happens with this anyway? Is not clearly too

@TheWorldBelow360 7 ай бұрын

Super conscious metallic crystals have always seemed like the obvious source that would allow for continuing permutations. Until such Times as when being conscientious inhibited their inherent abilities.

@circomnia9984 6 ай бұрын

Hold on to gravity?!? I feel like gravity is holding on to me!!!

@jamesevans3492 Жыл бұрын

Interesting Short Moie . . . Avatar-Like At The End . . . . Nicely Done . . . :-)

@morenofranco9235 Жыл бұрын

Lovely story. I want to see MORE!

@alexdemaj4285 Жыл бұрын

Hmm, I've seen ghosts like that somewhere

@glockejaeger 10 ай бұрын

Straight up took a ghost from destiny.

@newtronix Жыл бұрын

Yay!

@lijoe5497 Жыл бұрын

The Ghost from Destiny

@imagin64 Жыл бұрын

Impressive ▫️◽💠◽▫️

@fjdarling Жыл бұрын

Cute. Special effects were good.

@ClkWrkDragonfly Жыл бұрын

Bungie gonna sue somebody.

@patrickasplund Жыл бұрын

Are there any ferrous heavy metals? Gold, Silver, lead, and copper are all non-ferrous or semi-ferrous (idk if titanium is considered a heavy metal). I've never held a magnet to Tungsten, but since you can't tell the difference between gold and gold coated Tungsten without x-ray or core test- I'd assume it's also non-ferrous. And mercury needs a current to interact with magnets so it's safe to say that's non-ferrous as well. I'm curious because they're talking about non-ferrous heavy metals like its a rarity. The 25 second half life in nature is certainly rare.- but it's ferrous properties- not so much.

@TheAutisticEducator Жыл бұрын

This was well done.

@Danaman117 Жыл бұрын

Looked good for a minute

@rvdmeyden1 Жыл бұрын

Cool vid, they straight up stole Ghosts from Destiny... seems on par somehow...

@constantinoplesaurus8477 3 ай бұрын

10:35 they use the “Detach” track from Interstellar

@darinbauer8122 Жыл бұрын

This is too simple for me. Although I believe that the woman is from that century, that cannot be Earth at that specific time. It would either have to be far in the past or far in the future. Athough, while in a similar light to problems with chrono-logistics that I have with Altered Carbon, I have to say, Seatle looked FANTASTIC! Really. Make sure that Tom Robbin's knows.

@darinbauer8122 Жыл бұрын

Also know that to spell the word fantastic I couldn't use a caps lock.

@beharford Жыл бұрын

Very well done!

@Masenken Жыл бұрын

Better hope Bungie don't throw a fit over stealing their ghost 😂 Not a bad film, just baffled that y'all really went stole a ghost when you could've made literally any kind of floating helper bot

@annemckeon6532 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed looking at this film, but I didn't really understand what was going on. Partly because the subtitles went by very fast and I found it hard to follow the story line.

@MatthewCClarke Жыл бұрын

Lots of allusions to Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth here

@Chris-sx3he Жыл бұрын

Fun story, well done.

@klangerklanger8011 Жыл бұрын

Well done!

@tapashdebnath9223 Жыл бұрын

Great .

@vnblogs1085 Жыл бұрын

Amazing Dust always brilliant sci fi short its fabulous 👌👌👌

@anthonyrichards9512 Жыл бұрын

....this was a well made story. I do wish she would have met up with her father, but I guess you can't have everything. I did like the story though. Greg Hewitt

@JeffWrede Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@bookofthedamned 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@rogercalza9936 5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the original Journey to the Center of the Earth

@axeu Жыл бұрын

Brilliant !

@xarzu Жыл бұрын

I really like this one.

@jokkmokk100 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@tj7870 Жыл бұрын

cutie pie!

@waynethomas3638 Жыл бұрын

Intriguing. I would like to see a continuance of this tale!

@mikeshaelyhill896 Жыл бұрын

How the heck did a Destiny ghost end up in this video lol. Not complaining. I think its kinda cool but isn't that basically begging Bungie to sue the creator?