Sci-Fi Short Film "Hibernation" | DUST |

Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has arrived in the Universe through the 'Hibernation' program. But something happens between him and his instructor Claire, and decisions that seemed unbreakable begin to crack. The countdown has begun.
"Hibernation" by Jon Mikel Caballero
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[@ZbigniewZiggyCzachor]

Am I the only one who was bothered by the syringe 💉 left laying inside the space rocket 🚀? 😅

[@EricHouserecho1284]

Yea, how sloppy lol

[@RelaxingMusic-gp3st]

Bahahahaha. Heck yeah. 😂 Perhaps there’s a purpose for that visual but, I cannot fathom a reason for it. I’m sayin’, with all the G Forces - I’m gettin’ agitated that the syringe has yet fallen. 🤣

[@DihelsonMendonca]

No, not only you. It means you are very clever. More clever than the guys who did that. I thought the same. 🎉❤

[@GruntyGame]

Forget the syringe, they took an entire room to space. He doesn't need that bed in space.

[@marcelodelpuerto395]

I think the writers needed that plot device to make you ponder if he took the reversal drug or not. Either that or NASA is again contracting with Boing...

[@RullXov]

Using a veterinarians horse syringe to give that guy an iv shot.....🙄 3:04

[@meat-hook]

Maybe he's just that well hung.

[@ecphorizer]

@@meat-hook👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 You win the Internets! Way to go!

[@christianburgos2736]

Humans will be mix with horses for scientific purposes... Homo space-horses. I read that somewhere.

[@christiemoore232]

That's why I like the coma idea..it's not quite a reality setting

[@222foont]

Why do films usually portray space ships as...well...spacious? Most reel pics I've seen, show space saving (sorry for the pun, not sorry) cabins.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

Yeah that was odd, doing the procedure in the ship makes no sense. I'd see them doing the procedure on site then getting him into the ship one way or another. Not to mention that was literally a Saturn 5 from the looks of it so the capsule would have been tiny even for one person.

[@SynthoidSounds]

So . . . he had been dreaming about getting off the ship before it took off, running back to her, but in fact was actually still on board . . . came back 50 years later, as a still young guy, but she had aged here on Earth. There's a glimpse of her family in a photo, from a husband she later married, and these are her final hours before departing. Well, at least that's what I got from this. This production was actually shown on DUST several years ago.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

It feels like Dust is recycling videos as I swear I've seen some of them before despite being recently uploaded.

[@davidlafranchise4782]

He looked like Ryan Reynolds with the beard. Were the 2 kids his?

[@misalambasta]

I think they don't have any new short film.

[@cachetheline]

It's a "throwback thursday", intentionally re-airing an old video

[@coreywaller]

Yea I was confused myself

[@kenmurphy7718]

Couldn't quite figure this one out , had too many thought's about maybe it's this or that but l still enjoyed it for all that , dust films are great and occasionaly they produce a real diamond , if you are new to dust , stick with it as you wont be disappointed !

[@user-McGiver]

Ambition is a powerful drive... it can leave everything behind... when ignored, that's the ultimate sacrifice... !

[@DihelsonMendonca]

I thought that only me hadn't understood this movie, but I see many people didn't get it either. Great 👍❤️

[@fungipolo]

What happened....I feel asleep!😂

[@threynolds2]

The old person in the bed is Claire, 50 years later when he returned. He didn't age in hibernation. I have no idea what the syringe was or why he slammed the window. John running to Claire during liftoff was his dream.

[@herds22]

That is so like a woman. You think they're angry at you, and you find out they're only crazy. Excellent dialogue.

[@Pellkot]

Yeah space feels pretty nice compared to that

[@williamroeder3274]

Loud music and whispers. No dialogue heard.

[@markbeames7852]

Back-up flight crew do NOT do pre-flight medical or equipment applications. EVER

[@WilliamKinsey-dx2dn]

You can start with why there's no one in that bed!😂

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

How ypu might feel after living your whole life, then meeting your childhood sweetheart once again, in the Nursing Home... the path not chosen, the road not taken....

[@bobalicious2696]

"Are you going to stick me with that" Haha, that's what she said. Did anyone else notice the emergency exit door in the corner of the room? Better watch out, that's a hell-of-a step!

[@KarmaMechanic988]

50 years? That's about my commute from San Francisco to Sacramento.

[@Epoch615]

Cardiac arrest isn't the issue with opiates, it's respiratory depression. The person stops breathing and suffocates.

[@KarmaMechanic988]

That's not true! Cardiac arrest and opiates is due to getting high from your own supply.

[@kennyberger5377]

When she said 3 injections, I thought it was going to be about a guy on death row who was tripping.

[@herds22]

it sure looked like a death sentence to me, in any case.

[@Nailnuke]

The way I see it is that two young people are unable to say what they feel, to speak their love. He wants het to say it but he doesn't want to be rejected, he should have said it. The movie is a mixture of what could have been and what happened. He returned home to find her at the end of her life with his barley begun. The picture of her with kids was from her life with another. He says to her, 'I'm going to tell you everything". Which is what he said before he left.

[@walking_in_the_shade]

It seems he was a well trained very professional astronaut.

[@jimsmith556]

Too many technical impossibilities to make this believable. From having the hibernation injections proceed without any external cameras or monitoring, not having him lie down for the procedure, to leaving all the syringes and equipment on an open table at launch. And what was the story anyway? Fifty years of space travel would barely get him to the edge of the solar system, and then he somehow ends up back on Earth within that time frame? Showing the entire galaxy as though he somehow left it makes this video more suited for people that know nothing about time, space, speed etc. Give your audience some credit and at least make this based on science.

[@outawork2]

And they used a Saturn 5 rocket...

[@Sassy_Alaskan]

It’s called “non-fictional” it doesn’t need to make logical sense. That’s the whole point of NON- fiction.

[@jimsmith556]

@@Sassy_Alaskan You are too funny. So here's the definition of 'non-fiction', which is basically a movie based on reality. Did you even read my comment? Definition:Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information.

[@leonestello]

What I don't get is "where do I begin?" he was in hibernation the whole 50 years. He has no story to tell🤷

[@jeeweedepee]

But he can tell about before his journey, a year ago or so for him; she may be bad of memory meanwhile

[@zeev549]

Time to publish new stuff instead of recycling

[@tanagra2]

So why did you watch it again? Just so you can make a pointless comment maybe. I never would have seen it if we stick to your rules, master film maker.

[@Paladin.Brandis]

"Crossing space I can't see the sun, Lost in space there's Nowhere to run" 🎼

[@marcelodelpuerto395]

Well done I thought. Perhaps leaving the ending ambiguous would have been even better.

[@MzNinja213]

He left earth in the spaceship and returned 50 years later but to an alternate universe, where he had stayed on earth and had children with the woman. alternate universes are very common in sci fi.

[@herds22]

i don't get why he said, "Where do i begin?" His wife is the one who has to explain what happened on earth in the last 50 years. All he did was wake up, take some pics of Vega(assuming the rocket magically reached lightspeed shortly after liftoff) and maybe have time to write a haiku or something before going back to sleep. Oh wait, no one was even there to put him back into hibernation, so i guess he slept off the whole round trip, since he didn't age.

[@wastepolice]

Because when they were in bed together, she said to him "when you get back, you can tell me all about it".

[@herds22]

@@wastepolice Ahhh. Well, that helps, but space travel is not Buck Rogers. It's pretty mundane. So, unless they were being sarcastic...

[@strange-universe]

that's why she left that horse syringe rolling around the table, so he could inject himself...

[@sylvestersniper9417]

Very nice again dust.. 👏

[@AcapulKero]

hmmm, many questions for sure. There should be a second part which answers all this.

[@in_10z]

So wait...the part showing him on Earth hugging his girl but then on the ship....was he dreaming that he wishes he stayed back and actually went? And the empty syringe was part of the dream too? The dam empty syringe was meh..

[@outawork2]

He REALLY wanted to get away from her.

[@nathangregory_]

Time to hire a new music composer.

[@kenmurphy7718]

I agree , sometimes music drowns out dialogue , especially at the important bit where you are trying to figure it out .

[@TheRealSkeletor]

@@kenmurphy7718 That's not the fault of the composer though, that would be the audio mixer.

[@tanagra2]

I loved this video.

[@esshore46Larry-mq9ki]

He went into space traveled faster than light, for discussion sake let's say. Time slowed down for him and earth time remained the same for the girl. He returned faster than light from space and she grew old waiting for him to return. Time dilation?

[@newtronix]

Shades of interstellar with Murph.

[@dbest4755]

Here is a rephrased version of your message: I watched film and enjoyed it. The video quality was excellent. I'm struggling to understand why anyone with immediate family would ever volunteer for an experiment like the one depicted in the movie. I'm unsure whether the man was inside the ship before it took off, and even if he managed to survive somehow, his family would be gone forever.

[@davidwoods359]

What is this “Everything” that he is going to tell her? He’s been in hibernation for 50 years while she has lived a life! 🤦🏻

[@aarons7975]

What's with the emphasis on the big horse needle?

[@WilliamKinsey-dx2dn]

It's highly unlikely we would use atlas rockets when we go to the stars.

[@KK-eh2gm]

So, our process of selecting people for these assignments is completely flawed. No surprise.

[@Nalski2007]

Sorry, it wasn't really my cup of Tea.

[@WilliamKinsey-dx2dn]

I was hoping for something more sinister! He really did wrong her I know that look!

[@jeeweedepee]

I like it very much. Of course it's nonsense, the needle left loosely in the capsule, the messy affair developing while countdown is already going on, anyway that they would have a possibility to sleep together instead of having a medical checking team at his side the night before, etc etc etc, but that is not the point, those are rather funny points. I think the story is entertaining and there is a real plot.

[@Alex.H.B.1970something]

Soppy

[@axionth27sharonannKendel-jk6ot]

Love the twist ❤❤

[@stephenwestland942]

I must be stupid. It seems quite well done. But I don't understand any of it. I don't understand how we seemed to remain on Earth and embrace the woman after take-off and yet also was seen on the ship after it launched. And I don't understand the significance of the old man in the bed.

[@glennchartrand5411]

Something went wrong when they tried to put him in suspended animation and now he's in a coma growing old in a hospital . The movie is all a dream where he is reliving and regretting the decisions that landed him in a hospital bed for the rest of his life.

[@SSGTru]

I took it as that's the woman in the bed, and he's finally returned from the trip. "Where do I begin?" - a reference to her looking forward to his return and telling her all about the trip/exploration.

[@charlestaylor3195]

A lot of it is unclear, but I think the old person in the hospital bed was the girl he loved. I really think it was a longer movie that got shortened(actually that is obvious) But the syringes empty and full messes up any storyline, so you're not stupid, we're all confused, AND you must be new to DUST because this shit happens all the time but the good out weighs the bad, and their sci fi is excellent.

[@stevengill1736]

Sounds a little like the sequel to 2001: a space odyssey

[@glennchartrand5411]

@@SSGTru It's the other way around. He's been in a coma in the hospital for the last 50 years , she went in his place and has returned and she's telling him about all the things she saw on the mission. The whole movie is his "coma dream".

[@simonmcowan6874]

What a shame, had the makings of a good idea.

[@afinepoint4u]

He dreamed of remaining behind. She left the last injection up to him. He took it. I thought the person in the bed was her 50 years later.

[@41divad]

hum "Major Tom" What kind of crummy bed is that...

[@supecoop]

Why did they leave an empty bed on board the spaceship? Why didn't she also take the drugs so they could meet up in 50 years?

[@Jamez345]

I love Sci-Fi I’m so glad I stumbled on to this page!

[@outawork2]

And they used a 70 year old rocket (Saturn 5) to go into space on 50 year mission. Please get some new science fiction writers who something about science and history.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

It's a good example of how far scifi has fallen not just with movies but books too, the new stuff is just so bad most of the time. Even if they used the saturn 5 give a reason or have a new capsule or something but it looks like they bought a generic cgi file from Apollo 13.

[@endofspecies7575]

Based on a true story

[@RobHughes-oh3yg]

I’m confused

[@fupston824]

Another repeat.😐 I understand the desire to repeat films on Dust but you should at least be transparent about it. Or should we just assume that all films shared by Dust on a Thursday are automatically repeats?

[@OORagnar1976]

Yes, that's why it's called throwback Thursday.

[@fupston824]

@@OORagnar1976 : Unfortunately they no longer make that clear so, once Thursday has passed each week, it's not clear that the video is a repeat. They used to make it clear in the video title with "Throwback Thursday" but they've stopped doing that. Sometimes I'm happy to watch a video again, I'm just asking for Dust to have the honesty to declare that a "new" published video already exists on its channel.

[@OORagnar1976]

@@fupston824 sometimes they still do. But lately they've just been putting TT. In recently I've seen they have a ad on KZbin talking about throwback Thursday

[@OORagnar1976]

@@fupston824 but I know what you mean though I wish it would just say if it was new or not

[@tanagra2]

So if you have seen it before why did you watch it again? Maybe just to make an annoying pointless comment.

[@beingsentient]

Nice try, but too many failings to explain. I like the idea that human love can conquer the B.S. about "man's destiny" and all that, but the screenwriter needs to clean up his act.

[@matejancsek]

How do they read his vitals, if he is not hooked up to the system? And why the most important conversation is the quietest?

[@outawork2]

WiFi

[@matejancsek]

@@outawork2 last time I checked, the human body can't do that.

[@outawork2]

@@matejancsek Correct, but they can attach a monitor that can. Remember this is science fiction or at least it's suppose to be. They did use a Saturn 5 to go on a 50 year mission. ;>)

[@matejancsek]

@@outawork2 so a monitor can check a human body for every vital, without actually touching it. That seems unsafe, especially if there are other people around with their own vitals. I say it's just lazy work

[@jbaris]

Hey I love all these videos you put out, but any chance you can get rid of the black border around them please? What's the point of me having a big and wide screen if there are borders around all 4 sides? there should either be borders on the left/right sides, or top/bottom, but not both. Thanks!

[@MzNinja213]

In one scene the stop reaction syringe has been used. This was to show the existence of an alternate universe. When he says "where do I begin", he plans to tell her what he thinks may have happened to cause him to be there not having aged when in her universe he never left in the ship . He was happy to see the picture of her and the kids because they were actually his kids in that alternate universe. There are a couple things though that I have no idea about, yet!

[@geoffkeller5337]

Music is too loud. Can't hear the dialog

[@user-bw2uj7jt1s]

Sad

[@gamerboiiiiiii]

Meow

[@41divad]

A nice video take on an iconic SF conundrum

[@youtubeuser1700]

nothing is understandable....

[@donjames7971]

A moronic set-up that seemingly creates messiness .. !

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@johnhuey2104]

Both gf and myself agree, this movie was shit! Two 👎👎

[@ChrisEaston-oy5en]

not for me.looked good but way to boaring.

[@AndreiBogorodski]

lol so basically, he ruined a multimillion mission because of some chick

[@TresMamboMusicSchool]

To the filmmakers...yeah, I'm sorry I had to give you a thumbs down, but I'm never negative without reason...as you'll see from all the comments below, YES, "suspension of disbelief" is a fundamental part of film making...mmm...but NOT SO MUCH...when it comes to Sci-Fi. As soon as I saw the Saturn V ...it was down hill from there....but take it on the chin, dust yourself off and have another go ! Cheers Pete

[@avayu2289]

Really excellent storytelling encapsulated within 15min. 🤩

[@WyclifMurungi]

Did he get out of the rocket or not? I'm confused. Please help.

[@Javle666]

@@WyclifMurungi he did and did not, they showed us both possibilities

[@fungipolo]

Another stupid movie from Dust...they keep getting worse😢

[@scotthultin7769]

418 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗

[@twentyofseven]

rubbish 😢

[@dnoodspodu1159]

Boring-ish

[@shiva72945]

What would have happenend when Columbus had stayed at home? Very simple, the red indians would still be alive and we would have had much less wars.

[@strange-universe]

exactly, because no one else was ever ging to get on a ship and sail west...ever

[@eduardoaraujomesmer2619]

Putz, Fidel Castro ?

[@PunjabiExplorer68]

Borrring

[@jajaiarigaga2842]

When other AI platforms start coming out and Ai gets more advanced will yall start to make any animated short films using AI because that would be interesting

[@danawhite9823]

I honestly hope not. We don't need to give animation and writing jobs to computers.

[@mucy2807]

It’s not ‘A.I’ ffs. It hasn’t been invented yet.

[@strange-universe]

@@mucy2807 yeah, it's a hype misnomer.

[@shutincharlie3461]

It was like he got the covid jab!

[@wesrrowlands8309]

I think that'd be more fun than having to be in this movie.

[@TaeSkotty]

First 🤞🏾

[@ecphorizer]

You wasted ten seconds of your worthless life just to type that? Sorry, but being "first" to comment stopped being a thing back in 2012. Grow up.

[@ronnyziesmer4709]

First

[@danawhite9823]

derp

[@ronniecantu2216]

Drama in space doesn't count as sci-fi.

[@spike178]

Yawn 🥱