Sci-fi shorts of John Harden: La Vie D'Un Chien, The Story of Sputnik, and New
Release Date
2005
Film Synopsis
Three shorts by John Harden—some humorous, some heartbreaking—use science to explore the possibilities and problems that may await our species in the near-to-distant future.
Called “delightful,” and “endlessly inventive” by Alexander Payne (director of “Sideways” and “Nebraska”), “La Vie D’un Chien” (“The Life of a Dog”) explores how one scientist’s quest for transformation becomes a humanity-reckoning social movement. The film won numerous prizes, including Sci-Fi London Film Festival’s Best Short Film Award, 2005.
The hilariously off-kilter Cold War-themed “The Story of Sputnik” (2009) takes a retro-futurist look at an unthinkable possibility.
The movingly bittersweet “New” (2015) explores the human cost of eternal life, as an elderly married couple awake in a world where the cryogenically preserved are granted a second chance at life, in brand new bodies.
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