Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film: 'Résistance' | DUST

Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.

"Résistance" by Alex Chauvet, Anna Le Danois, Quentin Foulon, Fabien Glasse, Juliette Jean, Julie Narat

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[AProudDad]

Wow! Give the sound designer a high-five, the dedicated constant squelching and grinding made this so much more tense.

[flippedoutkyrii]

The sound design alone just made this whole short feel so real and grounded. Amazingly grotesque and crunchy!

[TF-rdrt]

Close up on the bugs, moving around the table during the bug conversation was really nice. Subtle facial expressions on the people too hinting at a certain revulsion or dislike. And the chopping, cracking squelching. Giving the blender a wack sold it for me.

[nikytamayo]

The French Resistance allegory is so well done. And it becomes even more unsettling when you realize that those could very well be human soldiers in another context.

In war, the ability to dehumanize your enemy is often essential to victory, but the costs are high.

[GDeNofa]

Best animated short I’ve seen here this year. I love the alien-bug designs and the carapace clicks and crunch sounds whenever they move; its both well done and disturbingly creepy.

[DaveH]

I loved the opening scene which looked so much like the room Dave Bowman finds himself in at the end of "2001 A Space Odyssey". The short films Dust provides are so thought provoking! Love this channel.

[LordKohaegan]

Great short! Reminded me of Nazi's being tricked into a dinner just to be killed by resistance fighters one by one but with the "cockroaches will inherit the earth" theme. Loved it.

[MikeLinPA]

The title, "Resistance" defines who the good guys and bad guys are. With a different title, the resistance fighters could have been the bad guys, murdering some innocent bugs having a night out on the town.

Very well done, and very thought provoking!

[AnimationGoneWrong]

If you hadn't grabbed my attention with the very Kubrick-esque opening shots, you had me when the giant insects came in! Marvelous. Great story, the actual characters themselves were awesome. This was top-notch!!! Even the sound was spot on. Excellent insect click and crunch noises, and not a single word spoken! Brilliant. THAT'S how you tell a story.

[sassysteveartist]

More intrigue, atmosphere and tightly-paced storytelling than most major blockbusters achieve in hours with unlimited budgets. Amazing!

[peterwinslow]

Everything was superbly created and "executed"! Right down to the scene being offered by the reflection off the knives on the wall. Every detail was perfect. I can't praise this short enough. Very well done!

[hippy]

This belongs in a season of Love, Death, and Robots. Great work!

[DooleyTheDirector]

THIS is what short films are all about - great sound design really selling the fantastic animation. Easy to follow, no dialogue lesson in shot selection and editing. Cheers to those who made this.

[MaximilianoNoriega]

Wow. This was such an incredibly different story! And it’s symbolism could be interpreted in more than two ways.

[amatulic]

I was impressed how expressive the bugs were, with their body language.

[dannyb]

I really like this. Was short, so never drawn out. What we got was effective. Animation with no talking was a bold choice too. It meant that to be good, a more artistic form of expression had to be TOP notch, more so than in other shorts. And it was successful. I could almost feel what they were saying, had they been talking.

[codece-ak]

This is so symbolic that it allows many interpretations. In some slangs, bugs mean tycoons, so the reference to totalitarianism in the film's description makes one think that democracy, with such an actual inequality, is just a brand of perfume or wine. And this is such a laconic art that it looks more like slogans on the barricades.

[Waycaffeinated]

Best Darn TERMINEX advertisement I have ever seen!!!

[skeaneable]

This short should definitely be on Netflix's anthology series Love, Death & Robots

[brittneymiller]

My skin is CRAWLING from these insect sounds