DUST Season 11, Episode 10: Close Encounter

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Yellowmeads & The Interloper

A double bill directed by Christian Burnett. On the London council estate of Yellowmeads, the people are changing. A mother grows increasingly concerned for her daughter's safety, while an otherworldly parasitic intelligence draws ever closer.

14 min

2

Reprogrammed

In retro-future LA, Andrea, a lonely roboticist, neglects her life to finish her masterpiece – IRIS the robot. While teaching IRIS the ropes of being sentient, she realizes she must patch things up with her Father. By giving birth to artificial life, Andrea learns how to live a real organic life.

8 min

3

The Lord of All Future Space & Time

With the help of a duffle bag from the future, a grief-stricken cowboy avenges the death of his wife.

23 min

4

Jumper

The hero gains a powerful artifact that lets him teleport across space. At first, it seems he controls the situation, but will he be able to escape?

3 min

5

There Is No Antimemetics Division

When knowledge itself becomes the enemy, a secret team must confront forces that exist only until you forget them.

16 min

6

Light Hearted

A widow's grief arrives at her door, asking what it costs to let go.

15 min

7

Alienation

A couple whose relationship unravels as they encounter a mysterious alien presence.

13 min

8

Crash Site

When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, two friends make a chance discovery, unaware that they’ve just set off a chain of events that will thrust them into a race against time to uncover the object's true purpose before it's too late.

14 min

9

The Girl And The Robot

In a futuristic world where robots are considered a threat and must be destroyed, Kira, a robot hunter, encounters an unusual robot that behaves not like a machine, but like a living being.

10 min

10

Close Encounter

A skeptical teenage girl, Riley, reluctantly joins her UFO-obsessed father, Jerry, on a road trip to a UFO convention, only to experience an otherworldly encounter that brings them closer together.

12 min

11

Killing of a Machine

In a post apocalyptic frozen wasteland, a waste collector finds a broken Android that holds the key to his family's survival.

7 min

12

Trial 54

A final test for Sarah to regain her memories is underway, but as outer forces close in, the truth of the experiment unfolds, along with the ambitions of her Doctor, Miles Heston.

14 min

13

Starfisher

Aging and adrift, a spacefisher gets one final shot at greatness when a long-lost comrade tips him off to a mythical catch — a moment that would rewrite the meaning of his entire life.

18 min

14

Synapse

A woman suffering from terrible nightmares who does whatever it takes to have breakfast with her husband one morning.

8 min

15

The Greatest Lie

In an illiterate future world, an ex-book thief takes one last job to recover something powerful and deeply personal.

21 min

16

SCP Dreams

Mark's last day in the infohazard department is painfully predictable. In a world where magic and physical anomalies are contained by a secret organization, an ancient curse is item number three on the meeting agenda.

7 min

17

Moondays

A group of lunar colonists participate in a high-tech drug trial that quickly spirals into deadly chaos.

9 min

18

Visible

In 2086, after nearly seventy years of humanity living in total invisibility, the sudden reappearance of a few individuals fractures society once more—forcing one "Invisible" to navigate fear, connection, and identity in a world that no longer knows how to be seen.

13 min

19

A Mind Cannot Touch

A grieving neuroscientist uses a brain-computer interface that she helped create to bring her daughter back from the dead as a hologram.

15 min

20

Would You Like To Try Again?

When a teenager runs away from home, she encounters an arcade machine that replays her deepest regret.

9 min

21

The Keepers

Amidst a desolate interstellar terrain, space faring outlaws Porter and Kai are thrust into an adventure to safeguard an ally's enigmatic transmission from a relentless adversary in THE KEEPERS.

6 min

22

Bisected

A couple witnesses a paranormal event that separates them into two distinct dimensions.

7 min

23

The Immortal

A man who fears death discovers the secret of immortality, but learns that eventually, everything dies - everything except him.

14 min

24

Holding Out

A 125-year-old retired superhero with dementia, and her estranged grandson, are forced to reconnect after she is kicked out of her aged care facility for failing to control her powers.

14 min

25

My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans

Ruby finds her lonesome routines disrupted when she makes an unlikely new friend: a mail-order robot.

13 min

26

Escape Velocity

Escaping from an alien planet, an astronaut must reach the space shuttle before a mysterious beast catches him.

7 min

27

Planet

Set in the year 2730 IA, Dr. Evren Kon dares to think beyond a United Council request to build an orbital supercomputer and proposes an idea far bolder: a plan to build an artificial planet. The film takes place during the final century of the project.

35 min

28

Somnolence

In a collapsing dystopian future, soldier David Canterra leads a high-stakes time travel mission to fix a catastrophic lab experiment. Upon his return, trapped in a somnolent state with his mind fractured by the journey, a shady doctor coerces his wife Lucy to extract the memories that could stop the world-devouring singularity.

10 min

29

Radiochrome

1983. While surveilling a woman suspected of being a shapeshifting alien, two FBI agents debate what truly separates humans from extraterrestrials that perfectly imitate them.

12 min

30

Tether

On the first day of her job running a remote, isolated space station, Mickie receives mysterious transmissions and must quickly unravel their meaning with the help of a passing spaceship Captain, or an untold number of lives could be lost.

14 min