Beautifully shot shorts on a budget are quite popular these days. The web is buzzing with this new short directed by Peruvian Ricardo de Montreuil and written by de Montreuil and Antonio Pérez. Their budget was all of $5,000. Set in 2074, the film shows Chris Black (played by Víctor López), a young man of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘future’
04/05/2010
‘Repo Men’ the Movie Compared to the Book ‘Repossession Mambo’
The Repo Men film is a dark, at times comedic dystopia with plenty of action and tension. Essentially it is about a Credit Union repo man –the kind that takes your car if you don’t make your payments– except instead of cars, he repossesses artificial organs (artiforgs), almost always killing the client in the process. [...]
01/10/2010
Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita (Book Review)
Lunar Braceros (Calaca Press, 2009) is a science fiction novella set in a dystopian 22nd century in which class relations have taken a turn for the worse and where corporate greed is barely limited by the State. The United States is no longer united; after an east-west war some U.S. states joined several Mexican states [...]
09/10/2009
Women on Top: “The Future of Women (El futuro de ellas)”
Set to premiere in the winter of 2011, The Future of Women (my translation, not official) is a film set in a world where women rule. It follows two police officers, Lara Cabel and Mila Brieros, in their dangerous mission of stopping world-renown assassin Michaela Tomasi. A mysterious organization has put out a contract on [...]
