DUST Season 5, Episode 99: Article 19-42

Here & Beyond

A once-was kids science TV show host attempts to build a time machine with his outcast teenage neighbor.

16 min

Secret Chord

The powerful elite lets a struggling musician fight for survival using his talent. One day he finds a prototype of a new kind of AI. It can help him become a Mozart of his time, but he has to risk everything.

12 min

Psychosis

Isolated in his basement apartment, a neurotic programmer begins to suspect that a technological entity is trying to abduct him.

14 min

Bubble

A young woman discovers that when life’s monotony has you hemmed in, happiness is taking your own advice and stepping outside your bubble.

14 min

Contact

Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.

7 min

Sky Fighter

Two pilots fight a war in the distant future in their fighter-bomber spacecraft. But is the true enemy their alien opponent...or each other?

14 min

Animal

Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.

15 min

Nine Minutes

In the near future, an experienced astronaut, Lilian, and her A.I. explore a newly discovered planet. After weeks of research, a malfunction during the return launch forces Lilian to choose between survival and completing the mission.

12 min

Sleepworking

In the near future a young woman becomes a sleepworker: her body is programmed to do menial labour while she is asleep.

15 min

Love Automated

*Reposted with updated audio*

6 min

Outpost

When the final Citizen of Earth's interplanetary research and diplomacy program finally makes first contact, he's forced to not only protect humanity, but that which makes him human: love.

17 min

Cupid's Paradise

In a world where everyone is rated based on superficial factors, Jenn has 100 dates to find a match before she becomes Cupid's slave.

12 min

Quantum Love

1 min

Travelooper

5 min

Midnight Marathon

When the whole world is hypnotized by an unexplained celestial event, a young boy must face his fear of the unknown in order to keep his brother and best friend from turning to the other side.

18 min

Don't Mess with the Sharkies

In a dystopic world where the human race is almost exterminated by a new, higher developed species called, "Sharkies“, Marie and Robert, two of the last survivors, find a camera and try to leave a message for posterity, which turns out not to be so easy when the danger of being eaten alive is all around you...

23 min

Thalamos

Commander Charlie Shaw finds himself alone on the red planet and isolated from his crew. He uncovers some disturbing truths about his situation and the fate of the mission.

21 min

A Shot of Irish

A stranded hitchhiker has a cryptic conversation with the bartender of a forgotten tavern and finds himself slipping through a crack in time and dimensions, far beyond the reach of our own world.

9 min

The Unreason

Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in London. One day their lives are changed forever when they stumble across a time machine and embark on trips to the past to ‘borrow’ items to sell in the present.

4 min

Snapdragons

A scientist attempts to use technology to solve her personal problems.

8 min

That Phone Call

4 min

Who Among Us

Contestant Seven painfully unravels on a live game show where one android is hidden among humans.

12 min

Progress Bar

In the near future, a woman navigates a virtual customer service call via her own avatar and digital assistant.

6 min

Subject 19

A scientist struggles to create a new world-changing technology.

8 min

Starian

7 min

Reflections Full of Life

Kim is a teenage girl who is eager to have fun and experiment in love affairs. In her quest for real love, she finds a door to a different reality.

25 min

AI-POCALYPSE

14 min

Technology Lake: Meditations on Death and Sex

A dog and her owner navigate the perils of modern technology.

8 min

The Beacon

Mark and Kara Verne are both young shipping pilots struggling to make ends meet. When Kara goes missing months after taking a large interstellar contract, Mark travels to the far reaches of the galaxy in search of his wife.

25 min

Paleonaut

A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.

15 min

Voskhod

After repairing his HAM radio using parts found in the forest, a recluse radio operator receives a distress call from a stranded Soviet cosmonaut in orbit.

28 min

Melting Point

In this surreal comedy a man wages war against his malfunctioning smart house, but will he lose a house or win a home?

5 min

After We Have Left Our Homes

Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of confiscated items, leading to events that will change the course of history.

7 min

Grapefruit & Heat Death!

An astronomy lesson on the scope of the universe by an impassioned substitute teacher sends a pair of high schoolers on an odyssey deep into the mind and out to the galaxies.

6 min

Details to Follow

A young couple's evening at home is rapidly thrown into confusion, chaos and disaster. How well do they really know each other?

5 min

Unforgettable

A young woman attempts memory implantation in order to save her relationship.

5 min

Dominion

A man comes across a briefcase containing gloves with a surprising ability. What starts off as innocuous fun, descends into exploitation of power.

4 min

The Right Choice

A married couple visit a clinic to decide what attributes their designer baby should have.

9 min

The Automaton

In 1897, a widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a sentient machine.

21 min

Re-displacement

As a therapist guides Leo through his forgotten memories, he begins to question whether the process can be trusted.

14 min

U ME I

In the near future, the fallout from a couple's quarrel reveals a dark side to the technological utopia they live in.

8 min

Eve

15 min

Binge Watching

In the near future, a woman comes across a VR film where she will experience a tense encounter with a pair of policemen…through the eyes of a black man.

6 min

Hashtag

In a looming future where social media celebrities dominate our culture, “X” (Gigi Edgley) is the world’s supreme online icon—but how far must she go to hold on to her popularity?

14 min

End of Decay

An ambitious pharmaceutical researcher loses the ability to walk in a terrible accident and performs dangerous self-experimentation using stem cells to gruesome and unexpected consequences.

11 min

Satori [Awakening]

The entire world has been rapidly overgrown by a dense jungle. Two survivors of a downed reconnaissance ship are about to discover that mother nature has a powerful new ally.

16 min

Black Box

A scientist is sent forward into the future to retrieve collected information from an age of ruin that might save the human race - or destroy it.

6 min

Headcleaner

A recluse who can control his environment through the power of sound holds the key to sonic weaponry that could have catastrophic consequences for the world at large.

27 min

The Atlas of False Desires

In Fashion, forecasting the next big trend is everything. In the wild territory of the internet, companies harvest social networks for valuable patterns and trends spread like viruses through dataspace, shifting infrastructure and translating dreams into economies.

8 min

Laws of the Universe

An inmate is trapped in his prison cell after an extraordinary circumstance happens beyond his prison walls. With outside forces threatening the ones he loves, he will do anything it takes to escape.

14 min

LUCID

WARNING: This film contains depictions of sexual assault/violence that may be upsetting/triggering to viewers.

14 min

The Fabric

In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist with no memory, sits incarcerated. One thing occupies his mind: escaping - to what or where, he has no clue.

19 min

Singularity Vol.1

10 min

Lab Rat

In a near future, a group of scientists trapped in a room learn that one of them is an AI and it has been deceiving them. They cannot escape until they figure out who it is.

14 min

Your Last Day on Earth

A Fox-dressed man breaks the space time limits with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. But below this recreational act there's a far more complex and ambitious plan.

12 min

CTRL Z

A hopeless romantic invents a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams...but he must die each time.

21 min

Home

Two young brothers living in rural isolation struggle to survive in the wake of a mysterious attack, only to have their fragile world shattered by the arrival of a teenage girl.

18 min

Stray

A virus eliminates all males. When a woman discovers something impossible, she risks the whole world's destruction to protect it.

13 min

Macrocosm

Planet earth’s contaminated drinking water threatens to end civilization. A celebrated quantum physicist, volunteers to be the first interdimensional traveller with the hopes of finding an answer to the contamination problem.

12 min

Ji

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?

13 min

L'Auxiliaire

Alone in front of her reflection in a collapsing world, she decides to end it all. But who is she and why?

7 min

Megan

When a young Scientist becomes entangled in a military mission to deliver the only antidote that will save mankind, she finds herself not only fighting for survival but also being confronted by demons from her past.

5 min

Carlos es un Androide

WARNING: This film features sequences of FLASHING LIGHTS, which can trigger a seizure in some people with epilepsy.

7 min

Dubs

A love story set in world where human cloning, known as 'dubbing', is now a commonplace volunteer programme.

34 min

APPyness

A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions.

9 min

Until There Was Nothing

A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.

5 min

Remember Me?

A man calls a woman from his past.

2 min

Teacher In A Box

A teacher disillusioned with her cutting edge virtual reality classroom struggles to coax her talented and troubled student to excel.

13 min

Doppelbänger

It isn't easy being single in a future society on the verge of the technological singularity.

14 min

Star Dogs

Star Dogs is a brand new British comedy that follows the exploits of a rag-tag group of space-pirates as they try and make a living in a strange new future.

23 min

The Original

A woman struggles to keep her relationship alive as her partner suffers from a debilitating illness. A new medical procedure offers the answer to her prayers, but not without forcing her to make one last sacrifice.

11 min

The Speed of Time

"Funny, irreverent, and fast paced. 13 minutes well spent." - Andy Weir (The Martian)

12 min

While You Were Sleeping

Two AI assistants chat in an abandoned space base.

2 min

Prototype

A technician conducting empathy tests on androids stumbles across a life-changing secret when an unruly subject complicates her work.

15 min

It's About Time!

A young man's night takes an eventful turn after a mysterious object appears in his backyard.

5 min

ABI

A scientist's computer prototype could change the world, but when a virus in the system infects his lab assistant, Abi, it could mean his death.

9 min

ARZOK

A man with no name, and out of his era, survives the way he can in a hostile and mysterious forest. Or at least that’s what he believes in.

17 min

The Halcyon

After the plague, the famines have come, and a man expelled from the last habitable zone wanders the desert wondering if he'll ever see his son again.

7 min

A Night at Club Zenos

When Jack follows his best mate to Prague to find his ex-girlfriend, he's thrown into the middle of an alien invasion fronted at a night club. Now, he must work together with an unlikely ally to rescue his best mate.

19 min

Beam

A down-on-her-luck thief, gifted with a teleportation device, must fulfill one final job in order to save her family.

12 min

SYNTHIA

After an update, a robotic personal assistant will now complete any request. But the robot can't always tell what's sincere and what's a joke.

10 min

Seedling

Amidst a huge storm, a couple experience an encounter with an alien species.

8 min

Connective Tissue

After several years away, Leo returns to save his brother and, on kidnapping him from hospital, returns back to Eric's dingy flat. It is there that Leo discovers Eric's deranged and confusing research that eventually leads to the understanding that Eric is able to telepathically communicate with him.

13 min

Clearwater

A young woman visits a secluded riverbank to relax in the sun. When a mosquito bites her, it becomes clear that there is a secret force of nature at work. And it wants more than just a drop of blood.

6 min

The Helping Hand

With a new baby at home, young parents adopt a hi-tech monitoring system. Will it be an answer to their woes or have they invited a monster into their home?

9 min

The Looking Planet

During the construction of the universe, a young spacetime engineer dreams of doing something more than his menial job of planetary ring construction, so he sets out on his own, breaking some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression -- and discovering there is more going on behind the scenes of this new universe than anyone imagined.

16 min

Come F*ck My Robot

Based off of a real Craigslist post of the same name, a virgin 18-year-old finds himself in over his head when he responds to a mysterious Craigslist post looking for someone to test a prototype sex robot only to have her not consent.

12 min

EXILE

A Sheriff is awakened by his daughter, alerting him of a prowler on their ranch. As father and daughter head out into the woods to track something that isn't human.

5 min

Nine to Five

A society where tiredness is illegal and comes with uniquely severe punishments.

10 min

Moonchild

After receiving a strange package on her late father's birthday, 18-year-old Lana goes on a journey to visit her father's grave, uncovering the true significance of the package and her father's death.

16 min

Bear With Me

A rusty nursing robot must decide between dragging his former patient back to the hospital or letting him catch a glimpse of the horizon in the wilderness.

15 min

Sunshine Room

Cutting-edge technology allows a young woman to grow up alongside her beloved Abuela. But on the verge of leaving for college, her financial realities threaten to erase their relationship - for good.

11 min

Deep Dive

In a near future Los Angeles everyone sees the city through their own set of augmented reality contact lenses.

6 min

The Last

Trapped in the ruins of a timeless world, an aging scientist struggles in isolation whilst striving to repair his A.I. companion. As he tries to crack the technology, his frustrated ambition and loneliness begin to take their toll.

8 min

ALONE

Kaya Torres is circling a black hole in a pod, with no one coming, no one to help. She's Alone.

18 min

Road Rage

Late for his interview. Stuck in a time loop. Not ideal. It's enough to drive Derw Derw mad.

5 min

Vikaari

Women start giving birth to physically and mentally different babies who seem to be supernaturally gifted.

13 min

Snowflakes

As two women are forcibly deported from the United Kingdom, they discover that the experimental drug meant to pacify them has a unique and spectacularly deadly side effect when injected into their oppressors.

13 min

REWIND

A mother is suppressing her fear of losing her daughter in combat through the usage of futuristic technology.

13 min

While Everything is Asleep

A mystical world where light and objects come alive to the rhythm of music. This strange choreography that only night-wonderers can observe.

2 min

Avarya

Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding a new habitable planet, the human trapped in his own ship after the robot overseer finds every single candidate planet unsuitable.

19 min

Kiko

Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store.

9 min