Policewoman Julia Forward awakens on a cylindrical structure in a world that seems deadlocked in the Stone Age. Somebody has taken her hostage and left her in this unreal and hostile environment. Far away from everything she has ever known she has to fight for her survival whilst learning the bitter secret of planet earth: The omnipresent Alekto Corporation uses humans with extraordinary talents as gene pools for their dark researches.
Production
Massive world-building ambition for a micro-budget short.
Direction
Kaufmann squeezes feature-length tension into 23 tight minutes.
Director
Thomas Kaufmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Thomas Kaufmann funded this through crowdfunding and shot it across multiple countries on a shoestring budget that makes the scale genuinely impressive.
The name 'Alekto' derives from Greek mythology — one of the Furies who punished moral crimes, ironically repurposed here for a corporation committing them.
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