Flufftronix

I’d have to say this is one of the most enthralling pieces of science fiction I’ve seen in a very, very long time. I wish this was a feature film. It’s a short piece by Canadian 3D artist Neill Blomkamp, about aliens who seem to have crash landed in South Africa, their derelict spacecrafts still dangling in the sky. Forced into a poverty making even the resident underclasses seem privileged, they take to open rebellion against Aparthied in weird mech-like suits.

All the animation was rendered in fairly high quality, and degraded down to low-budget style VHS, and mixed with interviews and news archive footage, to frame things as a documentary. I’d love to see this at a higher resolution, it’s extremely well-done and well worth the six minutes it takes to watch. Link via del.icio.us video feed

EDIT: The same people made this movie, about robots being developed and deployed as police in South Africa. This is really… wow. This is what science fiction is for, making fucking terrifying visions of what’s probably going to be reality in generations to come if we don’t shape up.