16 minutes to decide: your soulmate or your entire species? No pressure.
A modified human from a man-made planet risks his life to travel to where humanity originated. But will he choose love or his civilization?
Cinematography
Gorgeous desolate worlds on a shoestring budget.
Acting
Lewis Tan sells impossible choices with just his eyes.
Practical Effects
DIY sci-fi that looks more expensive than it is.
Director
Ben Griffin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ben Griffin shot this for under $50K after Lewis Tan's agent passed on a bigger project — Tan did it for scale as a favor.
The 'origin planet' visuals are actually Icelandic geothermal fields shot during a family vacation, color-graded to look alien.
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