Space Plug
2023 · 13m · GB
Directed by Marcus Anthony Thomas
Genres: sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A child is born and raised entirely in isolation within a blank white room suspended in space, tended only by alien worm-like creatures.
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An NFTS-trained filmmaker's rigorously conceived piece of pure visual storytelling — no dialogue, no sentiment, only the image — that earns its Kubrickian ambition through extraordinary craft.
Eighteen years of isolation in a white room with alien worms, no dialogue, black-and-white — NFTS/Disney scheme, and the formal commitment is real. 2001 comp is brave but the constraint is unusual. Interested.
Disney Imagine UK / NFTS commission shot in stark B&W with practical creature effects telling a wordless 18-year arc — fourteen minutes of Eraserhead-coded sci-fi from inside the institutional system is a rare animal.