I Am Nowhere - A Sci-Fi Thriller Short Film
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- After an unprecedented attack renders all technology fatal, can a group of survivors hold on to their humanity?
I Am Nowhere is a short film written in the depths of the first Covid-19 lockdown and filmed by a cast and crew of seven people in days with a £700 budget. We hope it captures the essence of loneliness and abandonment felt by many during the lockdowns and their intermissions.
With huge thanks to our partners:
Lenses: Sigma - www.sigma-imaging-uk.com
Camera: RED DSMC2 MONSTRO 8K from Global Distribution - www.globaldistribution.com
Backup software: YoYotta - www.yoyotta.com
CAST and CREW
Ali - Jo Mifsud
John - Sam Futch
Emmie - Emma Sims
Pete - Alex Neil
Written by - Samuel Adams
Cinematographer - Jake Davies
Storyboards and Concept Art - Scott Gazzard
Directed and Edited by - Dominic Danson
Executive Producer - Dominic Danson
Producer - Jo Mifsud
Producer - Sam Futch
Producer - Samuel Adams
Beautifully Shot and really well acted! This reminded me a lot of The Last of Us crossed with Cell by Stephen King. Amazing stuff even more so considering it was made by such a small team! I think I’d have just wanted to know a bit more about what had happened in the old world that got them to where they are but I think that was obviously a narrative decision, but it got me really thinking why is it so rough there!
Also, the Locations were stunning! That long bridge shot *chefs kiss*
Thanks, Martyn! Really glad you enjoyed the film. Jake and the actors definitely did a great job. Filming in Wales felt a little bit like cheating - everywhere in Snowdonia is just SO gorgeous. And maybe we’ll explore the world a little more in another film. There’s plenty going on there for sure 🙂
@@twelvenoonfilms Visited Snowdonia this past summer for the first time. Absolutely stunning place, and the perfect location for your film.
So, it’s not a country-wide EMP, because cars still work, but there’s an audio-visual signal that scrambles your brain if you look at a cell-phone screen or the telly. Alright. But why don’t these folks just live their lives like we used to, you know, before cell-phones and computers were everywhere? Like twenty whole years ago?
Also, if you’ve ever been in a situation where there isn’t any electricity, you typically wouldn’t be burning your only source of night-time light during the day - all those candles! Who’s making new candles!?
Other than these questions, the scenery was nice.
Yeah not sure I really got this either, a surprising amount of stuff is not actually connected the net, old Plasma TV's, stereos...electricity is obviously fine or they wouldn't use the old record player (thus making the use of candles pointless etc), supermarkets could still operate (albeit with some initial difficulty)....far too many holes in this, there would be no 'surviving' unless this is an analogy of just how dependent and/or addicted as a society we have become on 'recent' technology.
@@maviarab
A lot of old record players were wind-up.
See, Gramophone.
@@maviarab Most of the tech we had 20 years ago has been modified to depend on the Internet. The stock market and banking systems are now net-dependent, along with the electrical grid. And without electricity, you can't pump gas for cars and generators. Most people don't even have paper money anymore. The production and distribution of food is no longer local- it's grown and shipped in from far away. Battery-powered radios and old-fashioned TVs are useless if nothing is being broadcast. And it would be a lot less pretty than in this video. There'd be looting, rioting mobs. Civil wars. Let's face it- the Internet goes down, civilization goes with it. We've put all our eggs in one basket.
You have to 1. Read the Caption b4 watching 2. Watch it twice
It's Intriguing, because it leaves so much to the imagination to fill in the blanks. And imagine the rest.
We wouldn't be here if people for thousands of years without technology hadn't lived freely .
In real life, humans adapt. Millions of people are currently living happy lives without modern technology on farms (e.g., Amish, Mennonite), in communal indigenous tribes and villages within rainforests, taiga, plains, deserts, much of Oceania, much of South East Asia, and much of Africa. Travellers and nomadic peoples exist and are maintaining their cultures against the onslaughts of mainstream media and human created boundaries and borders. Some homeless are so by choice, finding greater comfort in freedom and self sufficiency than in captivating screens and soft beds. I remember a 3-day electricity blackout when my whole city partied and broke bread with our neighbors. Human nature, and our likely future, is probably not as dystopian as some imagine.
Yes, the isolation was well portrayed; both types of isolation. Thank you. This short is bound to mean a lot more in 5-7 years...
Really doesn't make sense. Somehow people led happy lives before communications technology, why can't these people do so? They have food and a nice place to live, as well as, each other. Unlike Covid, they were not likely to fall ill or die from simply breathing the air. What do they want? They seem to be intelligent people. There's plenty to do and explore. Pencil and paper still exist, as do books. And who was it that Pete was mourning? It seemed to be some child maybe? Too many holes in the presentation to get really invested in the story or characters. That not withstanding, it was technically well done and well acted with fine production values.
But...but..no UA-cam!
GODDAMN was this beautifully shot. As a beginning filmmaker I've bookmarked this to come back too and just study the shots and the color grading. The acting an the story was awesome as well. Good shit. I'm subscribing.
Before the terrible reality of this film's theme began---or before I knew where this was filmed----I was so overcome by the scenery and how it felt so familiar to me---and so beautifully ''bleak'. Suddenly I was back 45 years ago---on a walking holiday in Snowdonia---a break from my job in London, where I moved in 1972 from New York City for 13 years. Though I came back here to live in my birthplace, Manhattan, in 1982---I never forgot the emotional beauty I always felt during the many times I stayed and hiked in N. Wales. It had such magic to me. I am watching this film over again, so, this time, I can focus entirely on the acting, the characters, the mood, the dialogue and the plot---and not get so carried away by the emotions that so overwhelmed me by the whole setting in this very beautiful film you have all contributed to Well done!! 🙂
Interesting. During lockdown, technology kept us together and going outside was scarce, and here, it is almost the opposite, technology is our doom and we need to go outside, but are still lonely.
I grew up without the internet, cellphones et all... everything worked just fine. Businesses ran, we went to school, food was grown and delivered. Seems people forget that life without the net isn't that long ago. Still, you shutdown networks and systems. Clear their memory and restore from protected backups. Enhance security and release new software. It'd take a while to implement but not really that hard.
I've been working in IT for decades.
Great stuff. Incredibly atmospheric. This must be how teenagers feel when they have their phones taken away from them.
Or how Dom feels when there’s no coffee.
😄😄😄
Smartphone coffee alcohol. The opium provided to us by the ruling class to keep us enslaved. ‘Keep your hands on the plough’ 🎶🎵
Awesome work! Just goes to show what a small group of really determined people can achieve.
🌹🌹 Good one
Huge budgets, acclaimed actors and actresses, blockbuster directors and scriptwriters, set and wardrobe designers, CGI artists, and yet all of Hollywood manages to produce mostly unoriginal, uninspired sequels and adaptations. This beautiful, thoughtful film shows you don't need all the trappings of Hollywood to make a good film, that heart matters more than money in the art of storytelling. The comments and the success of Hollywood show something else, though, they show storytelling may be dead. Or maybe it's just our hearts that have died, traded for the tech in our hands. And maybe that's one way to view this film.
Well, I see this as a win.. I grew up without a cellphone and a computer.. just let me loose in the library 🤣
Whatever microwave happened,
individuals needed to
rely on each other.
Breakdown in
verbal communication
caused the disjointed
allegory concerning survival.
Interesting film.
It leaves many questions
unanswered.
+ Durasaxon +
Very good job regardless of the circumstances. Perhaps oddly, the film left me with a great sense of hopefulness.
Thank you all for a great piece of work.
When you live on an island you can't get away from anyone. Everyone wants to move outside of the city so then the outside of the city becomes the city
Beautiful work
Well done. You all did a great job. I enjoyed that. Well developed. Well played. Thanks for sharing!
Good effort. Well shot. Script needed a lot more work. I don't mind the narrative ambiguity but the story as a whole lacked authenticity. Acting laboured, though sloppy dialogue didn't help. Still, visually impressive.
Knives and forks are ‘technology’. You don’t, “lose your grip on humanity” if you can’t communicate telephonically, or via internet. Do you?
Nice cottage, slightly jealous.
Honestly i git bored then spent three or four minutes trying to jump the plot ,,, so ill never know what it is about
Gorgeous cottage & beautiful, sweeping vistas. The actors delivered their very few lines convincingly enough; unfortunately, the story was *confusing* .
Love your video, when that is said, have I read your description and understand your movie. Only small comment against your "no internet = huge problems" is maybe a bit far out, people may feel they can't be without right now but "no internet = minute inconvenience" is properly more correct. :-)
How would your great video have looked like if a virus had attacked people's speech center, and scrambled the meaning of words, so nobody could any longer understand each other?
Amazing! Thanks!!!
Thank You, this was great
This is good - well done, everyone involved in its making...
☝️😎
The end of tech could b our only hope...better medieval than robot zombie Apocalypse
100% agree with you. Technology has been both the best thing to happen top Mankind, and the worst.
I'm 60 years old and could easily live without the internet and would be able to live productively without electricity.
Most young people, I don't think they could handle life without either.
And that may just show how different my generation is from the current generation.
I have friends who are in their 40s who are smart, yet lack the skills to repair even the most basic of machines or mechanisms or to manage their day without the internet.
It sucks to be them.................
This film's title says it all. 🤣
It's about coward humans leaving Planet Earth
Legal bem forte
Congratulations, good story, script and locations.
It's certainly a possibility, and without tech you are anywhere and nowhere. When the power goes down even today people loose it.
Cheers.
Was this filmed in Yorkshire?
We filmed in gorgeous Snowdonia for this one, with some of the earlier scenes in Cambridge.
Also, Pete going up into that room - was that a kind of "covid party"?
Great video enjoyed it
Sad
This movie reminds me of what it's like to experience homelessness...except that in this reality Obama provided a lifeline.... The Obama phone ...The single biggest difference a President ever made. Deeply grateful President Obama 💕
Why, the sympathy? People, listen up. We make the world as it is not what we want it ro be because to many are too damn confortable in their own little world, and the effort to make it better or seek better it too hard. Too damn bad. Either live life or die. Grow a pair. Take life by the throat. I think this show is funnier than Hell.