DUST

We need Afrofuturism, not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we imagine and actualize an inclusive future. A future where black people are in control of their own destinies.

What kind of message is sent when future worlds are depicted without black people?

In episode three of DUST’s Afrofuturism series, George Clinton and the almighty Mothership emerge from a cloud of green gas to funk up the universe and expand the mythology of the philosophical and artistic lens that would later come to be known as Afrofuturism. From getting funky in front of a massive crowd on the moon to breaking bread with Jimi Hendrix and Sun Ra, George Clinton’s ultra funky contributions to the galaxy only serve to reinforce the idea that all motherships are connected.

Zac & Mac’s “Similo” gives us a glimpse into a future that offers robots as romantic partners.

Ariel Martin’s “iMom” takes our culture’s habit of “other-mothering” and scrutinizes it with terrifying accuracy.

Mark Slutsky’s sci-fi short film “The Decelerators” explores what happens when a group of ambitious friends create a machine that allows its user to linger forever in a moment of happiness. As they each take turns removing themselves from the stream of time, they quickly realize that without each other they will run out of opportunities to use the machine.

How much should we let technology control? Attack drones stop listening to commands and begin targeting all humans.

A pioneering mind transfer procedure offers a quadriplegic soldier the chance of a new life... but at a terrible cost.

Miles of separation cannot break their bond. Lovers face their unexpected separation.

Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor. We find a strange Emperor perched on his haunches, reminiscent of a proud samurai general in battle. He resurrects stone effigies of nine predecessors. They bring on the destruction of his era, and the Emperor ultimately becomes one of them. Continuing a repeating cycle.

In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably humanlike “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run.

Following a breakup, a introverted pot dealer becomes addicted to a virtual reality avatar of his ex-girlfriend while the building he lives in mysteriously refuses to let him leave.

A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO.

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.

A street smart smuggler Marky is on the run from a bounty hunter and his infected henchmen. Marky flees to the only family he's ever known, former superhero Ma Jones AKA Thunder.

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

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.

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

In a post-apocalyptic world, a man takes refuge in an arcade.

A man from another dimension loops through time in search of the ultimate answer, accompanied only by his unusual pets.

On a back street, a scrap monster makes a sudden lunge at a man. A pink-haired girl helps him, and their future is down to whether he remembers her.

A scientific adviser heads an investigation into a series of bizarre deaths that leaves each victim’s body horribly deformed and soon discovers that the cause has potentially devastating consequences for us all.

A brilliant scientist sees his convictions crumble during a picnic at the lake.

After an astronaut’s mission to explore deep space critically fails, she begins to reconsider the life she left on Earth.

With the help of her AI dog, a sixteen year-old girl must get her sick mother to another planet where a better life awaits.

Born with a word from nothing, the creature must eat one of its own to survive.

A man suffering from amnesia searches for whispers of his past in a post-apocalyptic world, while being hunted by human-like "Agents".

There is a boy who is playing a Role Playing Game (RPG) in the internet cafe and has reached to the level 20 of the game and wishes his character to be a magician but the character desires to be a warrior.

In the near future, people only wake up in odd-numbered or even-numbered years and hibernate during their inactive period. An Odd Citizen, Renée, applies to change her active period to even-numbered years to escape from a toxic relationship.

In a futuristic realm where colossal robots clash in epic battles, a fearless female warrior rises against a formidable mechanical giant, embodying the spirit of David and Goliath in a high-octane showdown for the ages.

When a mother’s AI-generated memories clash with reality, she must confront her past for the sake of her future.

A free spirited teen and her terminally ill grandmother build a rocket ship they plan to launch into outer space.

What evolution for humanity if in the next decades humanity does not change his behaviour ? Exodus dives you in that dystopia...

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.

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.

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