QuanTom (2013) Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film

[@MadCow999]

My favorite line is, "This is such a good mop!" 🤣

[@agerven]

And all of that in 12 minutes. Excitement, action, humor, a full range of emotions. Very, very well done.

[@kevinddawson127]

FINALY! A story with a conclusion!!! KUDOS!!

[@janinejohnstone468]

This was surprisingly nice! Best bit was when Tom did the 'Darth Maul' thing with the mop. 😄

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for watching! Tom and the mop never get old haha

[@Iamnickarmy]

I didn’t know you put it up! Thanks for watching everyone, these comments really warmed my heart tonight. Hey Aren, when are we doing the sequel? “QuanTom and ReleTiffany”.. Tom’s got more crime to clean up.

[@arenbergstrom]

Get some producers on the phone! We've got a sequel to make!

[@MausMasher54]

@@arenbergstromIt would have been nice to show as to where the azzholes landed....IMHO

[@TheFlyingRaptor]

What a great show! Very funny and heartwarming!

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for saying that! Appreciate you watching!

[@GardeningWithDoug]

Nice work. Brothers in law getting along over a common enemy

[@mattresbert]

Brilliant stuff ❤ Cool film Keep them coming

[@nathanhale7444]

Use that sucker to teleport them all into space

[@charlessanders6054]

This was a very enjoyable short film and a fun plot. I think it would have been funny to have a cutaway at the end to the three guys in Antarctica.

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for watching! It's funny you say that because we actually contemplated shooting such a tag at the ending, but we didn't figure out a way to make it look just right, so we left it out.

[@stuartharvey2729]

@@arenbergstrom I feel that three frozen crooksicles in Antarctica would be humorous, but gruesome. I prefer the lighthearted ending presented.

[@Fiction_Writing]

@@stuartharvey2729 One doesn't have to kill them. One could have them appear outside an Antarctic research facility, and then try to explain to base security how they got there.

[@spaceangel6945]

crooks being being rescued by Eskimos; ooops, teleporter not perfect, makes funny mistakes

[@KutWrite]

@@Fiction_Writing: Yeah. They'd probably set up an improvised lab there, with penguins as assistants.

[@docwilson5384]

This is Amazing, acting was great...Peace

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for watching! I'm glad to hear you loved the acting.

[@wildcard5269]

Family I EnJOYed it 🎉

[@mavicityrelayson2924]

OOOOOOH! I LIKE! We need more calm and comedy in sci fi.

[@escgoogle3865]

cheezetastic goodness thank you AI for sending me here

[@Iamnickarmy]

Glad you enjoyed it, and understood exactly what we were going for!

[@itsallspent]

6:22 it's a Bridgeport milling machine

[@sinan2.71]

Pretty good! Loved the mop twirling part.

[@lukethorham]

He he. My fav too!

[@joeblough4605]

Such a great short film, really great work! I have to watch 50 shorts to find a good one, yours is pure gold!!!!!

[@arenbergstrom]

Awesome! Thanks so much for watching!

[@Iamnickarmy]

Thanks! Glad you like it. We really just wanted to make a simple, fun, 80's sci-fi inspired short!

[@SuperAlexPerry]

heart-warming

[@K-Effect]

2:04 Tom…buddy, try not to look like you’re going to go home drink cheap whiskey and clean your guns. Tom….take off those framing bags, your not a carpenter.

[@primordialleftovers2197]

Can I borrow that unit? Just for a couple trips to someplace warm.

[@Iamnickarmy]

Sure! it's in the closet of my childhood home right now.

[@KutWrite]

Cute and fun! Good job scoring that amazing lab for shooting!

[@arenbergstrom]

Thank you! It was a fun place to shoot in!

[@immanutt4442]

FUN !!!

[@immanutt4442]

ha ... " I hate you to the power of 10 "

[@looneytune-upelectronicsll2241]

Cool effects

[@Iamnickarmy]

Thank you! fun fact the editor who learned to do the effects for this is actually quite a successful editor now for television shows like "Letterkenny"

[@nathanhale7444]

Man the horror movie and macabre things is a hard one. I had traumatic night terrors when I was a kid. If you don't know what that is look it up. Even as an adult I have trouble sleeping partly because of them. Watching horror movies before bed were the only thing that made them stop. I have no idea why but because of that scarry stuff is comforting and dear to me. I don't surround myself with black cats and fake Halloween corpses but I do like skulls and skeletons. I have a skeleton I named Slim Pickens. Mr Pickens is my Co pilot every October. Sure I could get rid of that kind of stuff but it'll be hard. Very hard.

[@ElRayDelRio]

Still waiting for that sequel 👏🏽 Wen pt. 2 😏

[@arenbergstrom]

One day hopefully!

[@AndrashSpooshkash]

Good short.

[@5goldrings1]

Very fun ride.

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for watching!

[@ArrBee6]

Good one

[@joshhayl7459]

🔵 As soon as they teleported to save her, they should have immediately set the device to return home so if they had to suddenly get out of there then they wouldn't have to first start setting the device, it would already be set and all they would have to do is press the button!

[@patrickrannou1278]

In fact as soon as they freed her, they should just have teleported themselves out *immediately*, instead of starting walking down the corridor to get ambushed by the villain.

[@bradjohnson9671]

That was a fun little clip!

[@tshotflash7293]

Looks like a Coleman lantern.

[@Iamnickarmy]

Coleman Lanterns are the best for making teleportation machines.

[@spiritangel1367]

That wasn't bad at all. I quite enjoyed this short film. ✌ 🙂

[@arenbergstrom]

Thanks for watching! I appreciate you taking the time.

[@gideonshallow8269]

This was awesome

[@Dr_Larken]

5:30 you know I know this isn’t real! No… not that! I'm talking about right here 5:30 obviously if it was 2 men, right after they teleported! They would be arguing over who gets to hold the teleporter! Come on! Let me carry it! No, I'm the scientist! So what, it's my sister! So, she's going to be my wife! Um, not if something happened to her, for a Smart guy, you didn't calculate that did you! Now let me carry it while you go rescue your future wife!

[@who4743]

Lol, I could totally see that happening! 😂

[@StarCaledonia]

What a great little film. Please make more 11:43

[@arenbergstrom]

Thank you for watching!

[@Iamnickarmy]

Thanks Michelle!

[@alt3241]

A long time ago I almost worked out a method by which teleportation could work but the side effects were a better weapon and the backlash was also lethal to everyone involved . In the last couple of years I worked out a few other systems less ridiculous but still foolish .

[@badbiker666]

The janitor calls his sister's fiancée first, not the police? The fiancée/spouse is always the first suspect in a disappearance/murder mystery. Also, and a minor point, why call the janitor "scruffy" in the description? He looks just like me! Oh shit! Does that mean I'm scruffy?

[@Iamnickarmy]

Could be many reasons: Fear for the sister's safety: Tom might believe that involving the police immediately could escalate the situation and put his sister at further risk. He might be concerned that the kidnappers could harm her if they sense law enforcement involvement. Lack of trust in the police: Tom might have a personal history or negative experiences with law enforcement that make them hesitant to involve the police, he is a punk after all. He could have doubts about the police's ability to handle the situation effectively or fear that the police might mishandle the investigation. Mainly, we wouldn't have a story if he did that. Thanks for watching!

[@who4743]

​@@IamnickarmyAlso getting the law involved would disclose the existence of the teleportation device and the police don't let regular people go track down kidnappers with them just because plus they would have to wait for law enforcement and deal with all the red tape. He chose the person that created the problem in the first place, but it's also the person who loves his sister just as much as he does. Besides making amends for what he did, he knows how the device works in case any problems with it were to arise. Of course this is all speculation as I'm not a mind reader. This was thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining, especially all the stuff with the new mop. The idea for the engagement ring to be used as the object in the demonstration and then the proposal was very creative and well thought out, kudos to whomever came up with that! Very sweet and touching. To everyone involved in this film, Well Done! I hope you all had as much fun whilst making this as I imagine you did and wish you all continued happiness and success! 😊

[@who4743]

@badbiker666, you know scruffy isn't always bad, and the guy that plays that character is kinda cute, so...

[@Iamnickarmy]

@@who4743 just reading this now. Thank you for these nice comments, it means a lot to all of us involved! I wrote QuanTom and Aren directed it (Aren is an incredibly talented writer in his own right). Your thought process is pretty spot on with what I was thinking when I wrote it, of course within the 12-15 minute short film model we were left with certain restrictions for exposition etc. but I'm really glad you enjoyed it! It was incredibly fun to shoot (as were all the other films we made at school) and was a dream come true for myself. Many of us are still working in the industry today, John (Cinematographer for QuanTom) is a successful Cinematographer who has enjoyed many successes at the Toronto International Film Festival, Aren has written and directed more shorts (some of which you can see here on his channel- and works as a fantastic critic and travel writer, and I have moved on to writing feature length films and trying to secure representation while working as a writer/producer in television. I am also in the process of writing a feature length version of QuanTom, so I hope you get to see that one day and enjoy it as much as the short. Thank you again!

[@larryjackson8675]

I liked it

[@johnmeyer6377]

well done

[@lukethorham]

At 9:24 there's an homage to a famous viral video. I 'll not say what it is to not spoil it.

[@Iamnickarmy]

What is it?

[@lukethorham]

@@Iamnickarmy It is "Star Wars Kid"

[@johnneotaku4life]

me gusta 🙂

[@QellOmnyhydrax]

The writing 😣 The production 🥳

[@wealthychef]

I found a critical plot hole at 4:15 -- how did he get zapped with rubber gloves? LOL jk

[@Iamnickarmy]

Tom had a four centimeter tear in the finger tip of his glove... I SWEAR I included that in the script.

[@DavidHodgesKU11]

I know I'm picking hairs here but why were the henchmen still wearing their masks when they are back at their own lab? Otherwise, really enjoyed it. Well done!

[@Iamnickarmy]

Because they don't want the regular employees of Von Bar Industries to see who they are either. Thanks for watching!!

[@hugojames85]

So how do dead-ordinary people like these film-makers get access to the sort of huge financial resources needed to produce even a no-mark short film like this? It's a serious question.

[@Iamnickarmy]

Not sure if this was meant to come off so harshly, however to answer your question as the writer. We were in film school, our tuition provided us access to facilities as well as gear to learn.

[@hugojames85]

@@Iamnickarmy Fair enough there, Ted. My original question was within a context of useless but rich poshos being the only people with access to the financial resources needed to engage in any kind of creative endeavour: an iron law in the UK where I am, and - let's face it - pretty much everywhere else too. So I naturally assumed that the same was true in your case - apologies for that assumption. (Film schools can also only be accessed by useless but rich poshos in the UK, BTW). Have you been able to continue your film-making career successfully after graduation?

[@Iamnickarmy]

Makes sense! No harm done. Many of us have continued, many of us haven’t. Aren (the director) is still a very talented writer/director and has more of his work on this channel. He’s also a fantastic film critic.(Three brothers film). The cinematographer of this is a working cinematographer based out of Toronto, shooting for some fantastic commercials and film, his projects have won multiple awards and been showcased at the prolific Toronto International Film Festival a few times. I wrote this short and was also the camera operator. I went on to direct many music videos for bands and artists, and worked in the film industry in Toronto for over ten years. I left Toronto and have been recently focusing on trying to find representation primarily as a screenwriter. In that time having pitched to companies like Netflix, Nelvana (Canadian company), Dreamworks and more. It’s an ongoing process! Thanks for watching and sharing more information on what it’s like in the UK!

[@hugojames85]

@@Iamnickarmy Many thanks for that, Nick - good to hear. And a timely reminder that the ultra-restricted artistic scene here in Britain is not necessarily mirrored everywhere else in the world. I am predominantly a musician, and largely a purveyor of folk-rock/folk-punk at that, and whereas there are many radio stations, for example, specialising in my kind of music in the US and Canada, there are hardly any IN THE WHOLE OF EUROPE, and none whatsoever in the UK. In fact, any kind of art that is not in the corporate-sponsored ultra-mainstream, or the pitifully few projects that are still sort-of subsidised by what remains of our destroyed public cultural bodies, is essentially non-existent here. And nobody really seems to care.

[@Iamnickarmy]

That's sad to hear that it's so ultra-restricted. There must be a lot of untapped creativity there, including yourself as a musician. I hope you're still playing! Seriously, thanks for watching our little film. We certainly all feel lucky to have made it. I always dreamed of doing it (we all did/still do), so getting to go to that school and do it was a great learning experience, not only in the craft itself but in life as well. Moreover, thank you for sharing Hugo. I appreciate your insight. Glad to hear you're keeping punk alive over there. Cheers from Canada!

[@mauijttewaal]

nice.

[@danielkruger4305]

W.C. Campbell University?

[@Iamnickarmy]

Yep! to be honest, I don't remember where I got this name from.. it's significant to science somehow though lmfao. I wrote it a while ago.

[@Teamo86]

Why didn't they immediately call the police when the sister got kidnapped?

[@teenieweenie2298]

Why not teleport the bad guys to shark infested waters?

[@Iamnickarmy]

That's in the directors cut.

[@jerryp6001]

Whoa. 2 minutes in and the acting...holy buckets

[@micknordstrom2591]

That was cute.

[@liteney]

How dare you try to get a job without first running it past me. Imagine for a second if the man said that to the woman. This show wasn't terrible till the very end.

[@jerryp6001]

Here's an example of how not to act. What do things not look like in real life? Here, watch this