We
might be in for a dystopian future, but there are those among us who won’t go
down without a fight, perhaps including Terrance the hacker. He will
demonstrate his talents to a mysterious woman and potential audiences for further
and longer exploits when Cole Drumb’s animated short film PostHuman (trailer
here) screens
at the 2013 Comic Con International Independent Film Festival.
Evidently,
the beautiful but deadly Kali was once an involuntary test subject in a secret
government ESP lab. She intends to
rescue her last surviving fellow guinea pig, with Terrance’s help at the
keyboard, while his faithful dog Nine looks on. There’s your backstory, now its go time.
PostHuman is the perfect
short for fans of the original Heavy
Metal movie and magazine, both in terms of the hardboiled action and Kali’s
wardrobe. It is short, but it is
violent, in a good anti-authoritarian sort of way. Co-produced and co-edited by Jennifer Wai-Yin
Luk, PostHuman is a muscular film
with a striking anime-ish look that could easily serve as the prelude for a
longer film or an ongoing series, like the 21st Century indie
version of a backdoor pilot.
There
are three reasons Comic Con attendees should queue up for PostHuman. It is short, so
it will not take too much time away from standing in other lines. It is action-driven, so it is easily processed. Perhaps most notably, it also stars the voice
of geek pin-up Tricia Helfer from Battlestar
Galactica.
PostHuman is a cool short
film that hopefully leads to future follow-ups.
It is exactly the sort of screening press attending Comic Con should be
covering. Fans on-the-ball enough to get
their tickets in the ten minutes they were on-sale and then organized enough to
arrange lodging should check out whatever they wish and get plenty of guilt-free
swag.
