Sci-Fi Short Film Bibo - DUST
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Date: 2024-04-01
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Comments and reviews: 33
garychap8384
Art doesn't need to be explained, nor does it need to have a single clear meaning. However. this short has all the clues you need to understand the context. From the opening scenes we can learn of Bibo's 10, 000 year lifespan, the upcoming war and the problem of Steamdog A6 models attacking real dogs. Bibo was designed to serve - without people to serve he appears to have no purpose. He is also built to love - which means without people he is lonely. Humanity is already on the brink and facing many threats, and poor Bibo is set to outlive the humans. But, that's just what we're conditioned to see here - it is certainly not all there is to see.
Bibo's desperate need to serve, even to the end - is no different from the human drive to build homes, collect pretty objects and procreate. All meaning in life is abstract, and emergent, arising from what we are and what innate drives we were created with. We each find subjective meaning in our actions. humans. cockroaches. steamdogs. Bibo.
So, whilst we might look at Bibos extended life and consider it meaningless in the absence of us humans - merely some hollow echo of a past meaning. In truth, we're ALL just following patterns laid down in our very design. Bibo is finding purpose in his life. and his endless chore is no less meaningful than the strange hamster wheels we put ourselves on.
This is a small corner of a world, where life and derived meaning continues as it must. Steam or otherwise, we are each products of impulse and design.
I may be looking too deep, but this is where this short takes me. I see life and meaning here. certainly no less emptiness and futility than there had always been.
Just my 2c _(as adjusted for inflation)_
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Art doesn't need to be explained, nor does it need to have a single clear meaning. However. this short has all the clues you need to understand the context. From the opening scenes we can learn of Bibo's 10, 000 year lifespan, the upcoming war and the problem of Steamdog A6 models attacking real dogs. Bibo was designed to serve - without people to serve he appears to have no purpose. He is also built to love - which means without people he is lonely. Humanity is already on the brink and facing many threats, and poor Bibo is set to outlive the humans. But, that's just what we're conditioned to see here - it is certainly not all there is to see.
Bibo's desperate need to serve, even to the end - is no different from the human drive to build homes, collect pretty objects and procreate. All meaning in life is abstract, and emergent, arising from what we are and what innate drives we were created with. We each find subjective meaning in our actions. humans. cockroaches. steamdogs. Bibo.
So, whilst we might look at Bibos extended life and consider it meaningless in the absence of us humans - merely some hollow echo of a past meaning. In truth, we're ALL just following patterns laid down in our very design. Bibo is finding purpose in his life. and his endless chore is no less meaningful than the strange hamster wheels we put ourselves on.
This is a small corner of a world, where life and derived meaning continues as it must. Steam or otherwise, we are each products of impulse and design.
I may be looking too deep, but this is where this short takes me. I see life and meaning here. certainly no less emptiness and futility than there had always been.
Just my 2c _(as adjusted for inflation)_
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iPilott
A robot that loves children and adults. Helps where it can. Thinks. Learns. Fixes things right on the spot. Signs autographs, takes pictures with children. The police love him. It serves ice cream at the same corner every day. They all call him the ice cream man. War. Everybody dies. Ice cream man is lonely. Rebuilds a little corner of its world. Builds three robots that look like the children he once knew. They break down occasionally. He fixes them. the end.
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A robot that loves children and adults. Helps where it can. Thinks. Learns. Fixes things right on the spot. Signs autographs, takes pictures with children. The police love him. It serves ice cream at the same corner every day. They all call him the ice cream man. War. Everybody dies. Ice cream man is lonely. Rebuilds a little corner of its world. Builds three robots that look like the children he once knew. They break down occasionally. He fixes them. the end.
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animistchannel2983
Nice adaptation of The Dairy-Cart Horse, a poignant story passed down from the 19th century, probably grounded in a real event somewhere. It explores how intention, function, and purpose can be separate things, but each can still have its own value. The original story would make a good short film of its own, actually, but it isn't really sci-fi.
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Nice adaptation of The Dairy-Cart Horse, a poignant story passed down from the 19th century, probably grounded in a real event somewhere. It explores how intention, function, and purpose can be separate things, but each can still have its own value. The original story would make a good short film of its own, actually, but it isn't really sci-fi.
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jimpatterson5524
I just watched it for the second time. This time stopping to read the newspaper clippings. and, being aware of what the end story was, it was even sadder the second time around. In the newspaper article, talking about the steam engine that may run forever, the chief engineer says that Bibo will still be around even when the rest of us aren't.
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I just watched it for the second time. This time stopping to read the newspaper clippings. and, being aware of what the end story was, it was even sadder the second time around. In the newspaper article, talking about the steam engine that may run forever, the chief engineer says that Bibo will still be around even when the rest of us aren't.
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gblake5560
Another lonely robot without the humans animation with no dialogue and long drawn out visuals. Yeah it’s well done if that’s your cup of tea. I’ve watched all the non animation films on dust now. Can’t watch more of these. I hope they get new, and good, stuff again soon
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Another lonely robot without the humans animation with no dialogue and long drawn out visuals. Yeah it’s well done if that’s your cup of tea. I’ve watched all the non animation films on dust now. Can’t watch more of these. I hope they get new, and good, stuff again soon
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RonRay
The CGI in this masterpiece is absolutely brilliant. In the style of the Fallout video games. (The good ones, anyway. 1, 2, 3, 4 & NV) Sort of a steampunk art deco.
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The CGI in this masterpiece is absolutely brilliant. In the style of the Fallout video games. (The good ones, anyway. 1, 2, 3, 4 & NV) Sort of a steampunk art deco.
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41divad
Red's cousin robot. No wasted views. Not sure how long he can hang on.
Getting less possible to find good videos at Dust. apparently I've watched them all: (
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Red's cousin robot. No wasted views. Not sure how long he can hang on.
Getting less possible to find good videos at Dust. apparently I've watched them all: (
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hezekiahkarr7615
This is a Exquisite sequential to the essentials of loneliness. Oh how I do wish there was one way, for me to learn the piano in the beginning to play.
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This is a Exquisite sequential to the essentials of loneliness. Oh how I do wish there was one way, for me to learn the piano in the beginning to play.
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wayneg2139
Something wrong, maybe the frame rate or something, made things in the for-ground very jerky. Very annoying. But very charming and well done. A little sad.
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Something wrong, maybe the frame rate or something, made things in the for-ground very jerky. Very annoying. But very charming and well done. A little sad.
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timkunk3498
Pretty formulaic.
He needs to smoke, not just when it's convenient, but all the time.
The cockroach was not good CGI
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Pretty formulaic.
He needs to smoke, not just when it's convenient, but all the time.
The cockroach was not good CGI
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dust
That's kinda sad. Still, I would think Bibo would have the time to build a spaceship or a vehicle so he/she/e can move on.
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That's kinda sad. Still, I would think Bibo would have the time to build a spaceship or a vehicle so he/she/e can move on.
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rajeshvlogs5085
Wow amazing, deep meaningful and emotional video, how your videoes doesn't going viral it must should be
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Wow amazing, deep meaningful and emotional video, how your videoes doesn't going viral it must should be
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tinymetaltrees
Well, Bibo, that’s what you get when you kill all humans. Now you’re stuck with just a creepy doll.
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Well, Bibo, that’s what you get when you kill all humans. Now you’re stuck with just a creepy doll.
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AnnBearForFreedom
Captions were unnecessary in a piece with no dialogue, and were overly-simplistic and intrusive.
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Captions were unnecessary in a piece with no dialogue, and were overly-simplistic and intrusive.
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Nitz82
This short film has more character development than most of Disney's Star Wars movies, especially T. L. J.
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This short film has more character development than most of Disney's Star Wars movies, especially T. L. J.
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garrycole9187
Animation and visual are beautiful, story okay but hard to relay meaning with just actions alone.
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Animation and visual are beautiful, story okay but hard to relay meaning with just actions alone.
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