2064
2020 · 2m
Directed by Luke Strickler
Genres: animation, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
In the future, the internet hits its data limit and spills into the real world — a stock-3D-model animation featuring a floating Mario as Earth's new overlord.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The internet overflows and giant Mario becomes god. Two minutes. Stock 3D models only. It's the most efficient apocalypse I've seen.
Two-minute stock-3D-model dystopia where Mario is the moon — accidentally turning corporate product placement into the visual language of collapse is the kind of cheap-but-real conceptual gesture short animation excels at.
Two minutes of stock-3D-model animation imagining a floating Mario as the new moon and Iron Man-shaped airplanes — making corporate clip-art the visual language of dystopia is a tidy aesthetic choice. 'We ran out of ducks' is good kicker.