9

80 minutes
9

The feature-length expansion of his Academy Award-nominated 2004 short film of the same name. The time is the too-near future. The world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as the world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. Lead by #9 the rag doll creatures must summon individual strengths well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2010