Untitled Earth Sim 64 – A Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film
A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.
Marie is an offbeat woman who suspects that all is not right with the world. After experiencing various glitches in reality, she is called upon by a mysterious being that accidentally lets slip that her universe is a simulation. Marie’s life quickly unravels at this revelation, as she desperately looks for meaning in an untitled simulation.
Director Jonathan Wilhelmsson tells us a little bit about how he came up with the idea for Untitled Earth Sim 64.
In early 2020 we were getting ready to go to Hong Kong to shoot our next short film. It was to be a comedy-drama set on the last day on earth, where earth was a simulation that had run out of budget. We had booked the whole trip and were about two weeks away from flying out when we first heard of the coronavirus.
The shoot had to be postponed and I was suddenly left with a lot of extra time on my hands. I started working on different tests to design the look of the glitches that were to feature in the film. I began to realize how many interesting and funny things you could do with the simulation concept that would never fit in our planned film, and since we now needed a new a project to shoot at home, I began writing what was essentially a stand-alone prequel, called Untitled Earth Sim 64.
I wanted to make something short and sweet that dealt with existentialism in a lighthearted and hopefully comforting way. The idea of a woman dealing with the fact that our universe is a simulation not even worthy of a proper name seemed like a great set-up for that.
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