2064: Cloud 9.2
2020 · 5m · USA
Directed by Luke Strickler
Genres: animation, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, humorous, surreal
A sequel set in a future where dying brains are uploaded to a digital afterlife populated by big horses, hot gods, and French Pikachus, rendered in deliberately cheap print-out aesthetics. Explores consciousness, absurd desire, and the glitchy infinity of post-death existence.
Picked by Felix
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The digital afterlife has French Pikachus and hot gods — described literally like that — and still finds time to be about consciousness. The title formatting alone earns inclusion.
A sequel about a digital afterlife rendered in deliberate MS Paint cheapness — Strickler's print-out aesthetic IS the thesis about consciousness in the spillover internet, and at under five minutes the gag has room to land.
Print-out aesthetic as deliberate texture for a digital afterlife of horses and French Pikachus — under five minutes, fully committed bit. Sequel logic on a budget of nothing.