"Uprooted" directed by Johnny Likens
Despite a complete lack of dialogue, this short science fiction film is as emotionally intense as anything we’ve ever seen come out of in the theater. Quite frankly, this is what I expected going into the theater to see Gravity. Likens achieves more in three minutes than Gravity achieved in ninety minutes. The film follows the journey of an astronaut as she heads into space, and while "Uprooted" doesn't end in one of Hollywood's neat little bows, it's certainly leaves one thinking.
Eschewing expensive CGI, Likens assembled the backdrop from public domain NASA footage which he dropped into the scenes using Cinema 4D.
Eschewing expensive CGI, Likens assembled the backdrop from public domain NASA footage which he dropped into the scenes using Cinema 4D.
""Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future."
— H. G. Wells, 1895"
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