Sci-Fi Short Film "Signal Dark" | DUST
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28 күн бұрынLucas Anderson is an insular IT technician whose life is turned upside down when he stumbles across a mysterious email and its reality bending contents.
"Signal Dark" by Alex Murray & Max Murray
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"Signal Dark" Credits:
Cast:
Lucas Anderson - Greg Miller Burns
Crew:
Pre-Production
Written - Alex Murray
Production
Directed - Alex Murray & Max Murray
Script Supervisor - Sophie Habib-Deloncle
Line Producer - Nicola Mandy
Producer - James Carter Johnson
Director of Photogrpahy - Robert Langley
Editing - Alex Murray & Max Murray
VFX - Alex Murray & Max Murray
Colouirst - Jon Olav Stokke
Sound Design - Peter Baumann
Music - Robert Murray
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@Potellion Ай бұрын
A message sent from the unknown depths of space is wonderous and at the same time fundamentally terrifying. How it is recieved and interpreted is what we wanted to explore. What will you conclude?
@tims9434 26 күн бұрын
I before e except after c
@xXOFrannieOXx 26 күн бұрын
Kinda feels like they didnt come in peace hihi. But if it was me i would want to know more and that ending will keep me guessing for while.
@williammatthews2948 26 күн бұрын
@@tims9434 Lol.
@Bear049 26 күн бұрын
Now that was worth watching
@Wichitan 26 күн бұрын
It came out of an ocean that appears to be its native habitat, so I don't think it wants to eat him. There's only one of him, so I don't think it wants to enslave him. One at a time would be very inefficient. The email seems to indicate that it wants to talk to him. The content seems to indicate that it wants to program him. The spells where he jumps locations appear to be the development of some new kind of ability. A test maybe? One that he appears to have passed at least the first part of.
@Redskizzers 26 күн бұрын
YO this IT guy seriously downloaded a random attachment from a random email on his work PC? Then plug that PC into his server farm? This guy's lucky it was aliens.
@tims9434 26 күн бұрын
It's because he deleted it but it came back. But definitely a poor choice
@flogiston824 26 күн бұрын
😂 "This guy's lucky it was aliens." I love this comment.😂
@nriqueog 26 күн бұрын
A better ending would be to zoom in on his cell phone back at his bedroom with it ringing. The Caller ID says BOSS, we over hear their message yelling at him that the network is still down and he doesn't have a job anymore. ;)
@truckertruckertrucker6382 26 күн бұрын
Was thinking that myself
@SILVERK5 25 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 100%... if that guy is IT... ouch...
@ReclinedPhysicist 26 күн бұрын
The moral of the story is you should never open unsolicited spam mail
@Wichitan 24 күн бұрын
...unless compelled to do so by an alien intelligence. There, fixed it for ya...
@K.Psomiadis 24 күн бұрын
You read my Mind 🤣
@LordSkudley 5 сағат бұрын
Unless you're a 419Baiter...
@Jalbesbe 26 күн бұрын
He's been trying to reach you about your planets extended warranty!
@quangobaud 24 күн бұрын
😂 👍
@sthomjoseph1058 23 күн бұрын
Time is running out 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@bjb7587 22 күн бұрын
Renew now! This is a one time offer!!
@huckleberryred472 25 күн бұрын
This is how grandmas feel when they click on pop ups and their computer starts acting up
@powerofthesun1000 25 күн бұрын
Dang Norton really stepping up their ad game
@jinkenz6459 26 күн бұрын
As an admin, he should've known better not to open an email with an attachment from an unknown source. ijs.
@ReclinedPhysicist 26 күн бұрын
Hell yes. He should have known better
@BurningGhosts 26 күн бұрын
I agree. Very foolish, could be virus
@JohnGauntSega32 26 күн бұрын
If a mysterious sound file is his escape from a boring, worse-than-mundane life, then can he be blamed for being curious?
@lionelk.1739 26 күн бұрын
Ain't that the truth. Never ever open an email from an UNKNOWN source .
@nancyharper1360 26 күн бұрын
@@JohnGauntSega32 Ummm, yeah, he can be blamed. Because by the end of this short video, he sure looked like he wished he was back to his boring life. He's hardly equipped to handle all this wormhole jumping. Plus, I believe he's left behind the laptop and the phone. And the vibes weren't screaming, "Luke, I am your father, and everything will be okay." This dude is screwed.
@SamiKotiranta 26 күн бұрын
Now, that was proper cosmic horror...
@daviddrift7663 25 күн бұрын
Chtulu lives 😂
@shawnerz98 26 күн бұрын
"These 'shrooms ain't shiz...wait, what's this email?"
@johnpayne7873 26 күн бұрын
Gawd! Brought back flashbacks from my last industrial accident at the kitchen stove from a downloaded recipe.
@JohnMcChrystal 26 күн бұрын
Brilliant piece of film making. Show, don’t tell. Very well shown. Thanks for posting.👍🏻✌🏻
@videotrexx 26 күн бұрын
Because there's nothing to tell, it's all just effects.
@lilyfhonazhel2675 26 күн бұрын
@@videotrexx "Show, don't tell" works mainly on written works, because, this one is a film, what are they supposed to 'tell' in a short film?
@TsantoulisX 25 күн бұрын
Well done to the people working in special effects, that was an eye candy! Well done guys!
@raphlvlogs271 26 күн бұрын
what a Lovecraftian ending
@DrTubeman 16 күн бұрын
Wow, what an absolute mind bender "Signal Dark" is, brilliant a gripping, entrancing, rabbit hole of a Sci-Fi reel...Tips Fedora to all involved in the making of Signal Dark, thank you and cheers Dust for sharing the reel.
@nickadams1321 25 күн бұрын
This is very intense considering there's hardly any dialogue.
@codypal55 25 күн бұрын
Sometimes the truth hertz, buddy.
@angelaward9991 21 күн бұрын
The beginning made me feel like I was a small particle of our infinite universe... what a fabulous ride. Loved it!
@stephenaustin142 25 күн бұрын
This is here , this is now FIRETRUCK ,FIRETRUCK , FIRETRUCK
@Cthulhuforabettertomorrow 25 күн бұрын
Actual depiction of what would have happened if you installed AOL 10.0….
@corwinzelazney5312 16 күн бұрын
With Dust I typically expect something with a good idea, or with good execution, or great effects, or something thought provoking, or scary, or deeply visceral. It's incredibly rare to get more than one or two of those, and unheard of to get them all. But you did just that. Very well done and satisfying. This was wonderful, thank you!
@daviddrift7663 25 күн бұрын
What an awesome intro! Good story too. Was that... a.. Oh Good Job IT you done summoned Chtulu.
@andrewksadventures 26 күн бұрын
This was fun. Well done! Now we want more.
@mothermakeup7481 26 күн бұрын
I almost clicked out of it with those 1st two minutes
@maxidaho 22 күн бұрын
Me too, thought it might just be a sizzle reel.
@BrownsdragonStudios 26 күн бұрын
The problem with those shorts ... is that they're too short! They are so good that I wish they were full length films.
@markmuldoon805 26 күн бұрын
Typical Dust. Always high quality, clever and thought provoking.
@Sea-Keith 26 күн бұрын
The strangest thing about this,(at time of typing) is that the video was released just over an hour ago,but there is A comment from 2 weeks ago.
@wfoster42 26 күн бұрын
time travel
@patricklee5239 26 күн бұрын
Probably from the creators of the film.
@godzillaeyes 26 күн бұрын
Probably Patreon supporters or channel members that get to see stuff early.
@cliffontheroad 26 күн бұрын
@@godzillaeyes I'd bet $ on yours OR what patricklee5239 wrote, from creators of the film, since it gives brief desc and asks a question. I was going to joke ask Arthur Dent. How it got here is a script for a future video. LOL. Being "pinned" might be a clue. Someone's clock is on Martian time zone.
@timothyjones3313 26 күн бұрын
Could have been reposted
@barbados3592 18 күн бұрын
Seriously, this was creative, beautiful, intelligent, original and told something very important. Love what you did. You are a real artist.
@michakoeppenblues3669 24 күн бұрын
that's a story of my taste. I can think about it till I fall asleep. true horror. great!
@_Briegel 26 күн бұрын
Fairy-tale uncles in the future: "And that, my dear children, is what happens when you open unchecked attachments from strangers"
@roberthutchins3435 26 күн бұрын
HAHA
@WesS2016 26 күн бұрын
He should change drug dealers, his current dealer is putting bath salts and junk in the smoke.
@drewmiller3462 26 күн бұрын
That was cool. Award winning cool.
@kharris0465 20 күн бұрын
That's one way to order food delivery.
@tcerv1599 26 күн бұрын
Needs to be a movie. Intriguing concept.
@cynamd 25 күн бұрын
Well done,more please.
@dasoffendor 26 күн бұрын
When the Dell sales rep wont take no for an answer.
@dasoffendor 26 күн бұрын
seriously though, good stuff.
@tammyvincent9417 Ай бұрын
Its a frequency strong enough to create matter and alternate realities.
@Lan_Zadura 26 күн бұрын
Bro just received the promo album of Metatron Omega
@klyanadkmorr 26 күн бұрын
This made me think of the James Woods movie Videodrome by David Cronenberg, when video movies and TV were the devices to transport people into horror dimension realms
@rootzero 23 күн бұрын
Awesome movie.
@rolfvansoelen8916 3 күн бұрын
Indeed!
@maxidaho 22 күн бұрын
When you go to the the school of "What does this button do?".
@georgegeorge-rq5fl 6 күн бұрын
those are the daydreams I have when listening to music
@flogiston824 26 күн бұрын
It's the Vogons, here for the hyperspace bypass construction.
@ChuckieFinzter 23 күн бұрын
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles, Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. Now, the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles, Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts, And living glupules frart and slipulate, Like jowling meated liverslime, Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes, And hooptiously drangle me, With crinkly bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, See if I don't.
@flogiston824 23 күн бұрын
@@ChuckieFinzter : ah, the melodious glory of Vogon poetry!
@VideoFusco 5 күн бұрын
honestly this short film is incomprehensible.
@sohovulture87 26 күн бұрын
That was entirely freaky. Excellent piece of work!
@daliedalie2929 17 күн бұрын
This is a straight AAA, thanks for this very professional and mind bending video 🙏
@durasaxon5131 8 күн бұрын
I have seen this film before. Well, I believe this individual made contact with otherworldly entities and they have invaded the time and space continuum that he previously understood. After all his job was to review the signals that were interpreted from other destinations in the cosmos and received on Earth. After the initial contact of what he heard he could have either made a file, report it, delete it but instead downloaded it. This one was a doozy! _____ Masterful in concept, acting and Special FX. _____
@terrencerivers2358 26 күн бұрын
Just goes to show what could happen if you open some dodgy email 😂
@photobythomas8936 21 күн бұрын
pretty mysterious. Cyber isolation was well depicted. Good film.
@KryyssTV 26 күн бұрын
It's funny, only last week I was updating some design notes with a notion like this. Humans are unique in that sound has a profound effect upon us across all levels of our cognition - emotional, intellectual and even somatic. Sounds can literally shape our understanding and interactions with reality. So I pondered, what if that process was refined beyond language and music? A perfected way to reshape the mind in a way that we don't percieve but our minds react to. A mind hack ,as it were, that we think is random noise but fundamentally changes everything about us in moments.
@Donkichoff 26 күн бұрын
👍exactement, très bonne réflexion, surtout si nous prenons en compte le fait que soyons potentiellement dans une matrice, l'énergie, le son, sont des informations, le cerveau est un décodeur, qui interprète et réagit aux informations en envoyant des signaux aux autres sens 🤔 exactly, very good thinking, especially if we take into account the fact that we are potentially in a matrix, energy, sound, are information, the brain is a decoder, which interprets and reacts to information by sending signals to others sense 🤔
@kennethbransford820 26 күн бұрын
== Since the brain is a decoder and programable organ that had to be designed for what it can do Mr.@@Donkichoff . Who then is the designer of our brain? It didn't just happen from dirt wouldn't you agree since it is an organic computer using complex formulaic chemical equations that is right now allowing you to think giving you the abilities for thoughts and consciousness etc... Only DESIGN, can account for the first cause singularity bringing the universe into existence and everything else in it. Revelation 4 : 11 “You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory+ and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were created.” ====
@KryyssTV 26 күн бұрын
@@Donkichoff Actually neuroscience suggests the opposite, that we get stimuli from our senses that the brain receives and what we experience is a mixture of reality and hallucination. Take for example the blind spot in our eyes where the retina connects to the optic nerve, if you place a dot on a piece of paper and position it perfectly then the dot will vanish and be replaced by blank paper. Now, you literally can't see anything in that area yet your mind creates a hallucination to complete the image. This is also how night terrors work exceot that what you experience is less sensory and more hallucination like we see in this short film.
@michaelgray6429 7 күн бұрын
An unknown message from somewhere and you don't know from where can be curious and a little frighting .
@Aerospacedu 19 күн бұрын
My kinda Sci Fi. Loved it!
@kotkotov4389 12 күн бұрын
Главное не выходить со своей комнаты она для нас безопасный "домик".😅 Спасибо !!! Не часто можно увидеть Хороший фильм!!! Спасибо всем кто сделал этот проект.
@durimmiziraj4815 24 күн бұрын
How lucky I am to have found this channel. Just wow!
@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat 26 күн бұрын
That was really trippy! I love the visuals!
@d23bw 11 күн бұрын
Fantastic film. Thank you/team for making and showing this brilliant piece of fantasmagorical art. Love the beastie at the end. Probanly drive one a bit mad hoppimg to and fro between frightening realities. Nightmare stuff.
@danieldevitt3332 26 күн бұрын
Fantastic movie. Love a bit of eldritch terror!! Thank you!!!
@slybri5751 23 күн бұрын
Least it wasn't a scammer email. That was AWESOME. 🙉🙈🙊
@barbados3592 18 күн бұрын
brave man. not necessarily a happy ending, not necessarily bad. that why I like this. because too many people take a brave character and show him as either being a winner or a loser. either bravery always works or always fails. They miss the point about courage, it's a risk. that's why we respect brave men who show it.
@abbynormal1965 26 күн бұрын
Can I get some of what our protagonist was smoking?
@Scott-pn3np 26 күн бұрын
Definitely. Datura. Mescaline. DMT. Probably a lot of stuff can do this 😆
@charlesanderson32 26 күн бұрын
Wonderful syfi video Thanks!
@isocrates0001 25 күн бұрын
The first minute is how I envisioned being inside a computer like Tron (1980)
@sengrattus 24 күн бұрын
I got the sense that @Potellion was setting up the big picture that the universe is a simulation, and we went through a matrix of infinite variations of reality before the signal zeroed in on a particular time frame of Earth. Would be interesting to hear his take!
@AcapulKero 26 күн бұрын
Strange story, but interesting :)
@silvioschroeter_tesla 26 күн бұрын
he is wearing all time the headhpones . think his ears are a cruel bunch of bakteria and fungi resting in his ears.
@dplj4428 26 күн бұрын
Food for a pre-quel
@natanelcamaniquispe7347 26 күн бұрын
There is something else in that dark forest...
@Joe-jv5mm 26 күн бұрын
They say when the Forest goes Quite, the Predators are close by
@cykkm 25 күн бұрын
Yeah. The pale green pants.
@SuperintendentParklaneManor 25 күн бұрын
Excellent 🤩
@cpuuk 26 күн бұрын
And this children, is why you never click on strange attachments you get in email- don't expect Kaspersky AV to protect you from Eldritch Elder Gods ¬_¬
@markl8111 25 күн бұрын
Ok, that was terrifying and amazing
@juancarlosherranmartin4712 26 күн бұрын
The intro looks a classic Amiga demon with the tunnel effect.😮
@rstock07 26 күн бұрын
outstanding! i would like a tidy ending on some of these tho.
@david-blues 25 күн бұрын
Very interesting plot, and optimally done! Also amazing effects... would like to see a full movie !
@byrondhouston 24 күн бұрын
Wow!!
@grammybear4226 26 күн бұрын
🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 70 yr old grandma in Texas, USA and by the way l'm subscribed and l hit Like. 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍
@billyandrew 26 күн бұрын
Outstanding! 👏👏👏👍
@shaddouida3447 26 күн бұрын
A Type X civilization has explored every universe, multiverse, megaverse, omniverse, and all dimensions of the hyperverse. We are gods to countless civilizations and have a far greater understanding of realms beyond reality in the outerverse. The exponential nature of the scale stops here as time is meaningless beyond reality. An eon is like a second to those who dwell there and beyond, and space has no bound.
@Joe-jv5mm 26 күн бұрын
Hey God's! 🐜You left out the Underverse
@durasaxon5131 19 күн бұрын
Eloquent 🌐
@mikedonnarumma5337 26 күн бұрын
brilliant
@gabydewilde 18 күн бұрын
The concept was to awesome for where it went.
@arminbuch9386 26 күн бұрын
Why does the txt file contain an image (scanned text)?!
@Potellion 26 күн бұрын
It's Encrytped :D - also...Sci-Fi!
@anthonywest2049 26 күн бұрын
Wow! One of the best
@Dimon13011 26 күн бұрын
I, too, always download and include all the files that come in my mail.
@blacksiddha 26 күн бұрын
Cool...loved it.
@nemanjadanilovic3530 21 күн бұрын
They could have just order pizza if they were hungry 😂
@daliedalie2929 17 күн бұрын
Thanks
@scotthultin7769 26 күн бұрын
769 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗
@ecphorizer 25 күн бұрын
👍🏼. Now it's 770
@powerhausstudiosgkfotograp3256 22 күн бұрын
Great short very creative
@seriyfamiliya2263 26 күн бұрын
I told him.. Don't buy dope..from strangers)))🙏
@john.f.remedy.237 26 күн бұрын
Very nicely done…
@stasrazin5820 26 күн бұрын
Не повезло,но он знал на что шел связавшись с этим.
@Raiderhays37 8 күн бұрын
The only issue I have with DUST contributions is they NEVER end the story. NEVER! It's shite storytelling is what it is. It's always all about the cool "visual" effects. Tell a good story that has a beginning, a middle, and A FUCKING END!!
@outerrealm 15 күн бұрын
I have a youtube ad blocker, so not a single ad played all the way through. I'm so smug about that. How do you like them apples youtube? Sue me, I dare you!
@myfriendcaffeine-tb2fn 14 күн бұрын
WOW! JUST FUCKING WOW! PHENOMINAL! BRILLIANT IN EVERY WAY WHEN IT COMES TO MOVIE MAKING!
@Quickened1 26 күн бұрын
I think he sat down at his desk after consuming mushrooms...
@VincentHoliday 26 күн бұрын
hails yea! im diggin this concept,and would love to see this expanded into a mini series. so many possibilities with this one. excellent! mad props!
@thomassecurename3152 26 күн бұрын
I’d find another travel agency.
@dalebecause2467 26 күн бұрын
Quite an acid trip...
@I_will_need_you 10 күн бұрын
This one is really good. The acting is fine, the atmosphere and sound design too. Not quite sure of the message though.. but maybe it's just an artistic expressive piece :) Good stuff, anywasy 👍
@russellstarr9111 26 күн бұрын
Lesson 1. Don't open attachments from an unknown source.
@MrMax-ei8rt 23 күн бұрын
Ля, чувак на перепутье добровольно вышел, это жестко.
@MomolosZtips 23 күн бұрын
Love all the spoilers in the comments who need to reveal all the surprises and half the story ! They just love taking all the suspense away from any viewer who reads comments ! 😱😱😱
@VASILIS-ir7rl 17 күн бұрын
UNDERRATED MESSAGE
@jimbussey1888 26 күн бұрын
This must be based on a true story.
@boots1256 26 күн бұрын
That was so good! Series worthy