Sci-Fi Short Film 'The Fore-Men' | DUST

Weeks after a mysterious time-compression event violently splices environments from the past into the present, two survivors encounter the foreboding figures responsible for the event and experience firsthand their sinister nature.

"The Fore-Men" by Adrian Bobb

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A mysterious and earth altering event has fused together random slices of land, sea, air and flora and fauna from four billion years of Earth’s past into the present day.

Three weeks after the event, it’s clear that this “temporal crash” has made the

air and water a contaminated slurry of ancient and modern chemicals and microbes. They

are slowly killing off animals and survivors, including paleontologists, Sam, and Roger.

After discussing the inevitable threats awaiting them, Roger brings up an encounter he had with

something – or someone -- he ran into while Sam was away on a supply run. A strange humanoid visitor unlike anything Roger had seen, stalked the premises before vanishing from Roger’s memory.

Before deciding to leave their rundown shelter to find help, the same strange visitors Roger saw return.

Demonstrating a strange and destructive power, Sam desperately attempts to fire at the figure only to find that time has skipped ahead into the following morning when Roger’s pneumonia has advanced beyond repair.

After burying Roger’s corpse, Sam marches outward through a wasteland of time only

to find the nearest city underwater. But her pain is short-lived as she comes face to face with --

The Fore-Men.

After a tense confrontation goes south, Sam dies staring at the back of her own ancient

Corpse -- a circle of death and degradation repeated incrementally across the beach.

"The Fore-Men" Credits:

Samantha Martin - Sophia Walker
Roger Faide - Gabriel Darku

Writer/Director - Adrian Bobb
Director of Photography - Bob Gundu
Assistant Camera Operator - Ash Tailor-Jones
Key Grip - James Hughes
Assistant Director - Max Whitworth
VFX Supervisor - Adrian Bobb
Editor - Jeremy Ward
Color Correction - Bob Gundu
Production Designer - Vincent Moskowec
Art Director - Allison Zwicker
Set Dresser - John DuGray
Costume Designer - Melissa Bessey
Hair & Makeup - Daniela Donayre
Production Coordinator - Jada Poon
Production Assistant - Darryl Callender
Covid Compliance Officer - Justin Moses
Modeling Artists - Adrian Bobb, Alexandra Papouchina
Texture Artists - Alexandra Papouchina, Theo Mills, Adrian Bobb, Mahmoud Salah
Rigging Artist - Jillian Wang
Animators - Lucas Pico, Jeff Robinson, Christopher Wolfe
Matte Painter - Adrian Bobb
Compositors - Simon Han, Harsimmar Singh Bobal, QC VFX Lighting/Rendering Artist - George Kanaras Music Composer - Dillon Baldassero Sound Designers - Charles Tilden, Matt R. Sherman

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[jvcyt]

These short films are like potato chips, once you start watching, you end up binge-watching.

[Stothehighest]

This is where it's at people. Support these kind of indie works, this wuld be a banger of an opening scene for a movie.

[bugpybear]

That final shot with her body decaying over time is crazy! 😱

[lavapix]

You knew she had to be smart when she used the phone in landscape mode for the photo.

[timely]

I love the strangeness of encountering beings from distant times, past and future. This was so otherwordly.

[travkenn]

What a fascinating concept. I’d love to see this “time compression” idea explored even more. The visuals of the fore-men were insanely good. I’ve seen a lot of sci-fi, THIS is special.

[michaelburke]

That final shot was absolutely gorgeous, and the design work on your Fore-Men was at the same time original and highly reminiscent of the plague doctors of medieval Europe. Cool movie.

[harjith.d.bubber]

Can't wrap my head around it - how much can these people pack in less than 15 minutes!!!! Amazing and fantastic work. Huge fan of DUST

[EdmondManning]

WOW. Props on the visuals throughout. The Fore-men looked amazing. The house with the nautilus fused to it? How disturbing and yet beautiful was that? I am agog at the quality of this movie. Great acting, storytelling, and I can't get over how the visuals are more intense than Hollywood blockbusters.

[keithpurtell]

Dystopian with a capital D. Sophia Walker did a great job with this character. And, the floating-ring redlight people were well imagined. This one is high quality and very original.

[glenndavis]

She was being studied while studying...with the same result occurring in parallel.

[chrisbiro]

So the future "fore-men" excavated her fossilized bones and then compressed time to go back to see her as she died? Their "event" though caused massive disruptions to her current timeline before her death, even contributing to her demise in a way that wouldn't have happened without their "event" interfering.

[Fina]

This was one of the most scary short films I've seen. I'm mesmerized by it and terrified. This film must be entered into film festivals. A real winner here.

[laniakeas]

This short shocked me hard because at the scene with deformed city I remembered I occasionally have been having those dreams where our planet starts to change in that way throughout my life. A lot of anomalies hapenning, objects and parts of regions of space combinging with each other, people having different rapid genetic mutations, encounters with diferent otherworldy creatures.

And this short has an atmosphere of those dreams.


Wow. Kudos to everybody who made this masterpiece. The amount of creativity shown here is beyond limits.

[rfrags]

Holy shit. Hollywood studios wish they could come up with something this good. Absolutely phenomenal.

[Islandmidfielder]

Wonderful actress. She nailed every scene and brought it to life for the viewer.

[IceLizardsUnited]

Really interesting concept, it almost seems like the Fore-Men are compressing/repeating time to achieve something in their favor. Their interest in modern humans makes me think they're trying to change, observe, or alter how humans will eventually evolve into them.

[berticusmaximus]

Better than anything coming out of any Hollywood studio.

[KeiraCats]

This film was a totally unique concept which I believe was well executed. It left me wanting more. Time is not a straight line. For those of you who need some help understanding what happened the description explains the concept pretty well.

[ILLicit]

Every time I see the evolutionary scale I can’t get the meme out my head.
“Go back we fuhked up”.