SPECTRUM

Short film (15 mins) 2018

“The future is what you make it.”

SYNOPSIS

Ari, a brilliant young child diagnosed on the autism spectrum, bonds with an artificial intelligence ‘sidekick’ named Gadget and the two work together to save humanity from an impending ecological crisis.

Following the links in a vast corporate network, uncover a conspiracy that would turn humans into robots by hacking the human DNA. Ari realises that the absence of empathic intelligence in the algorithm that runs the world and uses this knowledge to upgrade the system code itself.

Spectrum is a high concept eco-science fiction, in the vein of Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams with a cyberpunk twist.

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:

Darwin International Film Festival 2018

Flickerfest International Film Festival 2019

NT Traveling Film Festival 2019

Darwin Fringe Festival 2019

PRODUCTION TEAM

Directed by Timothy Parish

Produced by Gaia Osborne

Written by Timothy Parish and Phil Denson

Director of Photography – Andre Sawenko

VFX/Animation – Will Watson – Phenomec PTY LTD

Art Director – Kristen Elms

Sound Design: Matt Cunliffe

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