By Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n
The desolate reaches of deep space figure heavily in today\u2019s sci-fi short film double feature. Space, as it turns out, is really big and empty. Until we get warp drive or discover a local wormhole\u2014getting anywhere will be a long, lonely slog. The other thread tying the films together? They\u2019re both by director Eli Sasich.<\/p>\n
First up is HENRi.<\/em> The film is like an episode of Life After People<\/em><\/a> in space. What happens to a ship\u2019s artificially intelligent computer after its crew dies? It gets melancholy, begins missing its human friends something terrible, and builds itself a robot body out of the ship\u2019s rusty scrap and spare parts.<\/p>\n \u201cMy particular interest for this film was memory and its intrinsic relationship with consciousness,\u201d Sasich writes<\/a> in an article about the film\u2019s making. \u201cI also wanted a robot of my very own.\u201d<\/p>\n