Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film: "Résistance" | DUST

Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.
"Résistance" by Alex Chauvet, Anna Le Danois, Quentin Foulon, Fabien Glasse, Juliette Jean, Julie Narat
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[@flippedoutkyrii]

The sound design alone just made this whole short feel so real and grounded. Amazingly grotesque and crunchy!

[@JustinMarshallElias2]

Wow! Give the sound designer a high-five, the dedicated constant squelching and grinding made this so much more tense.

[@jasonruzeski]

I couldn't agree more!! Audio is 80% of video work.

[@MidnightDStroyer]

At the point when the woman was leaving the table & she dragged a fingernail along the bug's back, I distinctly heard the scraping noise too. Attention to detail.

[@Mike14264]

True... made them bugs feel even more out of place, scarier... I was expecting some screeching the whole time, honestly.

[@ronsnow402]

It's amazing how the dumb goofy episodes get the most views. Humanity is screwed.

[@TheMid-KnightRider]

@@ronsnow402 ... Actually, NOT so "dumb & goofy." More like a "fictional characterization" of the GENUINE BEHAVIORS and activities of the psychopathic elitist NON-HUMAN filth currently manipulating, deceiving, torturing and enslaving humanity. The attending personal slaves in this "short film" and their "righteous, calmly rebellious retaliation" is EXACTLY how things should be done to keep the people from suffering even more horrific abuse at the vile whims of these monsters. Tah-wahn-dah!

[@TF-rd8rt]

Close up on the bugs, moving around the table during the bug conversation was really nice. Subtle facial expressions on the people too hinting at a certain revulsion or dislike. And the chopping, cracking squelching. Giving the blender a wack sold it for me.

[@nikytamayo]

The French Resistance allegory is so well done. And it becomes even more unsettling when you realize that those could very well be human soldiers in another context. In war, the ability to dehumanize your enemy is often essential to victory, but the costs are high.

[@Xindet]

Dehuminizing you enemy comes without costs mate. The only cost is the production of propaganda

[@nikytamayo]

@@Xindet there are costs beyond the physical. There's a reason many veterans have trouble readjusting to civilian life.

[@codece172-ak2]

@@nikytamayo agree. any lie comes back to the liar

[@roccov3614]

Maybe they were human but we were seeing them through the eyes of the resistance that see them as monsters.

[@nikytamayo]

@@roccov3614 bingo.

[@sweetvegan74]

Best animated short I’ve seen here this year. I love the alien-bug designs and the carapace clicks and crunch sounds whenever they move; its both well done and disturbingly creepy.

[@sweetvegan74]

@@markfergerson2145 yes, every sound was on point.

[@jackanasaurus5905]

I believe the giant bugs in the film are meant to represent the greedy and evil high class society, and it expresses their ugliness

[@MuantanamoMobile]

@@jackanasaurus5905 Nope. Nazism in occuped France.

[@MuantanamoMobile]

My only gripe is that bugs would most likely find us as unattractive and unappealing disgusting as we find them. But it could be one of those exotic twisted kinks the ruling elites have being demoed here, things like Beastiality and pederasty which were exposed in the Epstein case. So I can buy that the bugs despite looking down on us would still engage in "forbidden" delectable acts with us.

[@jacobj.1969]

@@jackanasaurus5905 Yes exactly !

[@AnimationGoneWrong]

If you hadn't grabbed my attention with the very Kubrick-esque opening shots, you had me when the giant insects came in! Marvelous. Great story, the actual characters themselves were awesome. This was top-notch!!! Even the sound was spot on. Excellent insect click and crunch noises, and not a single word spoken! Brilliant. THAT'S how you tell a story.

[@kennethsizer6217]

I could never have articulated it as well, but THIS! Exactly THIS!

[@DaveH001]

I loved the opening scene which looked so much like the room Dave Bowman finds himself in at the end of "2001 A Space Odyssey". The short films Dust provides are so thought provoking! Love this channel.

[@lexfauser3009]

Yes, I agree! I have to think about that amazing good SF movie too!!!

[@NemoConsequentae]

And the Beethoven, which links to both 2001 & A Clockwork Orange.

[@benzandpour]

@@NemoConsequentae not familiar with Beethoven in 2001

[@NemoConsequentae]

@@benzandpour You're right. I don't believe he was used in that, but it was a classical soundtrack. Beginning with Strauss wonderful _Sprach Zarathustra._

[@kennethsizer6217]

💯

[@LordKohaegan]

Great short! Reminded me of Nazi's being tricked into a dinner just to be killed by resistance fighters one by one but with the "cockroaches will inherit the earth" theme. Loved it.

[@Tespri]

Reminds me of what happened to communists

[@einienj3281]

Exactly what I thought

[@deathybrs]

Definitely not an accidental similarity.

[@ST31N42]

@@Tespri They're back and need to be reminded that communism is not wanted.

[@janbaer3241]

@@Tespri Where did that happen to them?

[@MikeLinPA]

The title, "Resistance" defines who the good guys and bad guys are. With a different title, the resistance fighters could have been the bad guys, murdering some innocent bugs having a night out on the town. Very well done, and very thought provoking!

[@allanmason3201]

As the saying goes, one person's freedom-fighter is another person's terrorist. For all we know, the giant bugs in this video could have been taking a well-earned break from saving humanity from its own idiocies, and the three humans are xenophobic asshats who previously hated humans with a different skin colour or religion, and now are killing aliens in gruesome ways because they get their rocks off on that.

[@alexassassy5855]

Résistance is in French, the bugs are clearly nazis or at least german officers. The title is here to deceive us; we're clearly shown that average people can do fiendish things when they dehumanize others, the resistance fighters and the bugs are the bad guys, it's just that we're not shown the evil the bugs do on a daily basis. Anyway the message is that everyone can be evil and there's no thing a human wouldn't do if brainwashed or motivated enough

[@imonymous]

Very good point.

[@acecharmer418]

Innocent? Did you see how they were treating the girl that was bait

[@MikeLinPA]

@@acecharmer418 Dude, don't take my comment too seriously. My comment was like the reverse Disney stories told through the eyes of the villain, where they make themselves out to be the victims. I wasn't seriously defending the bugs. (I also don't think bugs would be sexually attracted to mammals, but that's another line of discussion.) Thanks for replying. Have a great day!

[@MoanAlotsa_24-7]

Moral of the story: The elites are at the mercy of the kindness of the rest of us, or lack thereof. Don't crap on us and think we're just gonna take it without some sort of payback. That's my interpretation, fwiw

[@madtechnocrat9234]

communism intensifies.

[@ShingoShojiCoolVibrations]

Left moment

[@brittneymiller2311]

My skin is CRAWLING from these insect sounds

[@TheCgOrion]

"The only good bug is a dead bug." -Starship Troopers

[@alden1132]

And only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[@peterwinslow8329]

Everything was superbly created and "executed"! Right down to the scene being offered by the reflection off the knives on the wall. Every detail was perfect. I can't praise this short enough. Very well done!

[@txbluesguy]

I was reminded of occupied France and what the French Resistance did during that time.

[@jessicamerriman2336]

The only bad part is I can’t give DUST a million likes. 🙂

[@MrKim-kv2vv]

Interesting choice of characters. Supposedly the survivors of an catastrophic incident. Well done.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Or you could interpret it in a more metaphoric way. The insects are the elites ruling over the small people. They are cold blooded, hard, show just as much greed and voraciousness as the common man; despite the elitist etiquette which they will drop when amongst themselfes anyway and living in a world and speaking in a language that look and sound downright alien to the average man. Those elites see the common man as a means to an end, as either a tool that can be ignored as long as it serves its purpose, like the waiter for instance or as a means to satisfy their appetites, like the lady, having them at their command as they please. While being all too ignorant and oblivious about the fact that in the end, they are at the mercy of the very people they look down on.

[@moneyguy2008]

@@Furzkampfbomber Very nicely elaborated. Just one small correction: *themselves

[@TheYehat]

No, this is a story about the current narrative in the world. Well told and hopefully more people will understand and see beyond the visual.

[@jerrysstories711]

Finally, a sequel to Kafka's classic Metamorphosis!

[@MaximilianoNoriega]

Wow. This was such an incredibly different story! And it’s symbolism could be interpreted in more than two ways.

[@oliviaelisa.design]

I think the meaning is actually quite clear

[@johncaccioppo1142]

@@oliviaelisa.design And painfully over-optimistic.

[@waffles47_87]

Love how in the shot looking down on the last bug it looks so small and like well…a bug

[@amatulic4229]

I was impressed how expressive the bugs were, with their body language.

[@sweetvegan74]

Me too. It’s hard to pull it off without expressive faces but it was done by other moments and sounds. They did a stellar job with keeping them creepy yet hold some distorted humanity.

[@DooleyNotedYT]

THIS is what short films are all about - great sound design really selling the fantastic animation. Easy to follow, no dialogue lesson in shot selection and editing. Cheers to those who made this.

[@skeaneable]

This short should definitely be on Netflix's anthology series Love,Death & Robots

[@AugustusSeeley]

Joe's Apartment sure has gone to hell without all the singing!

[@peterbiesbroek]

This is a true short masterpiece. Really great plot. Thank you, mr regisseur

[@sassysteveartist]

More intrigue, atmosphere and tightly-paced storytelling than most major blockbusters achieve in hours with unlimited budgets. Amazing!

[@codece172-ak2]

This is so symbolic that it allows many interpretations. In some slangs, bugs mean tycoons, so the reference to totalitarianism in the film's description makes one think that democracy, with such an actual inequality, is just a brand of perfume or wine. And this is such a laconic art that it looks more like slogans on the barricades.

[@sonova7]

Die Mächtigen der Welt zeigen ihr wahres Gesicht.

[@musings_from_eternalmoor]

Awesome sounddesign, as well as lighting and what not 👌

[@sudrianliam1199]

This is very Kubrick- or Tarantino-esque, reminded me a lot of Inglorious Basterds. Definitely not something for people with a fear of bugs, but the metaphor is of course absolutely accurate. A brilliant piece!

[@hippy282]

This belongs in a season of Love, Death, and Robots. Great work!

[@rudevalve]

Certified Gold!!!!!

[@jasonwall7751]

Ha. That Beetle didn't even realize that she was just a cartoon. :P

[@thaska6106]

Vive la Résistance ☨

[@ThePerimeters]

The imagination is infinite. Dust is a beautiful compendium of incredible unexpected works. Love this channel.

[@mcvideos4602]

sound design is fantastic

[@acbenepe]

Couldn't help thinking about the Garthim from "DarkCrystal". excellent short.

[@kemal_0326]

I watch almost all of Dust's short films, all of them are very good, thank you DUST...

[@FHBStudio]

Great job! You made both humans and bugs even creapier!

[@zaainamahvishjammeho1599]

🐞

[@haikuboxer]

WOW. I literally gasped at the title credit at the end. Résistance! Amazing, perfect, brilliant.

[@albundy5719]

The most epic animated Come Hither I've ever seen...

[@Hasselroeder]

I'm always amazed how the plot is still interesting even if there is no dialog between the characters.

[@klug5916]

Very original and cinematically, it's a great short movie, without dialog, conveying a lot of emotions and power. Really well done!

[@iandavismadeinengland5881]

Next 👍🏻👍🏻🔥🎉 Always in Stock

[@bigcity2085]

I guess its "Vive la Resistance"...and then eat them ? They have been quite marinated in champagne. Tastes like snail ! Tres magnifique !

[@occamsrayzor]

Macabre and brilliantly shot, this is one of the best I've seen on Dust.

[@woodstoney]

This is a really great film on many levels. Kudos to the producers, etc. Well done!

[@jimparsons6803]

That'll teach those carapace toting overlords a thing or two.

[@meltinginmissoula7044]

Fantastic! To hell with those Crowd o roaches! Their kinds always gives away a superior notion of a bad set of secrets.

[@SynthoidSounds]

Incredibly well done. The 3D models and rendering are absolutely spot on, as good as any high end production studio animation I've ever seen, rendered together with a, well, unique story. I enjoy most of the productions that DUST selects for presentation, but every so often they select a truly spectacular example of the artform . . . this is one of those examples.

[@MestreDentistaGUC]

Oh this has to expanded. I'd love a series set in this universe.

[@IkariTenshi]

I hate it when a short is so good it could be a full length movie. I neeed moooore

[@ifazer8akathedoctor275]

I like dust even more now.

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

Lol. This was good, the little things like hitting the blender to get the head farther down made me laugh.

[@jenesisjones6706]

I'm not usually a fan of the cartoony/animated style, but this one is just awesome! 10 thumbs up!

[@patryot5668]

one of my favourite channels on smart tv, dust but man so many of them I want a full length movie or tv series//parallel man was another good one alternate earths!!!!!!!!

[@colleenkaralee2280]

The waiter was like the waiter in the Monty Python skit with the exploding man. Loved the use of cockroaches.

[@tbizzle8040]

Now that was awesome!!! Thank you!

[@gastonj.oviedo5317]

An obvious but no less effective metaphor. Excellent animation.

[@williamp3591]

Best Darn TERMINEX advertisement I have ever seen!!!

[@jackmack1061]

Just brilliant storytelling. And not a word spoken out loud.

[@c.c.h.3769]

Omg this was amazing fun and creepy! I wish we had a longer version. Bravo !

[@arnoldsherrill6305]

Using Beethoven's 9th, second movement was absolutely brilliant and using the concept of a resistance movement was as well ., was this on Earth or another planet that humans were inhabiting at the time and this was resistance against the invading Force? So many questions there needs to be a part 2

[@thechrisman1345]

Read the description

[@hughbarton5743]

Yep! YAN 2nd is absolutely the perfect soundtrack for our human drive to never falter, never quit... Superb in. every respect. You big bugs: watch out.

[@nathgallagher9566]

I was wondering where were they?, this is wild story".

[@grahamyates2490]

Often, good writers will leave their story open to some degree of interpretation by the viewer/reader. As this is a French production titled 'Resistance' and the description mentions domination by a totalitarian regime, I have my own views on the basis for the story.

[@mtlicq]

@Arnold Sherrill - Intelligent question!!!

[@jawoodsiii]

The bug's head in the blender gave me a gag reflex. Very interesting short film.

[@eligebrown8998]

The writers at Dust are off the chart. Great stories guys.

[@MetatronsWing]

Loved the head toss into the blender! Lol If that's not resistance, I don't know what is 😁

[@andreassumerauer5028]

The short film actually tells a quite straightforward story. Unfortunately I did not read the backstory before watching it. When the bugs entered the room the first thing that came to my mind was Kafka's Metamorphosis; A story about a man who one morning finds himself transformed into a giant bug. The story goes on to tell his ill fate and how he is despised and hated because of his ugly and dehumanized shape. Of course the Film's actually intended story line soon became obvious and that's what made it quite confusing: Part of me felt for the poor murdered insects while at the same time I hoped that the heroic humans would prevail. Note to myself: Always read the video description before watching a Dust short. ;)

[@quitlife9279]

if you have to read the description first to watch something, it's not a good film.

[@gmusichi2400]

We need more of these fine restaurant establishments around the world to take care of the current rising totalitarian regimes around the world!

[@peteskyrunner4845]

One of the best short films I've seen. A quirky and original story backed up by amazing animation, and the sound was incredible.

[@professor_lembach]

Great short and totally thumbs up, but why would giant insectoids have ANY sexual interest in mammalian female physiology?

[@bigainzfan6934]

Let me answer your questions with another. Why do humans seek fetishes with other creatures?

[@jr2no160]

The Insectoids could be representive of Nazi SS officer's dining in some French or Polish restaurant during WW2 🤔

[@francescp.4778]

@@jr2no160 i think it too

[@lorettashepherd.]

@@bigainzfan6934 everyone has their own kink even giant insectoids

[@marcjohnson2610]

They may consider humans as food.

[@ArtII2Long]

Wow, that was a whole lotta fun to watch. I was wondering what the title meant. It became clear at the end. The Germans never ever really appreciated french cuisine. :)

[@beaufordlylegoodbread6810]

Loved watching the putrid insects get dismembered. Quite entertaining

[@chipworrell6025]

odd, yet very satisfying. Nice to see the return of characters not torn by indecision or ambiguity.

[@hadrianmcquaig6066]

Beautiful! I feel like the Closed Captions could be used to give more context - but the quiet really makes the story more compelling.

[@Pretty-Ugly-369]

Eat the rich! I liked the obvious metaphor & the fact that this can be interpreted in countless ways. The insect design & details are impressive. However I would have preferred if the bugs where able to put up just a tiny bit of resistance themselves ;) & if the general bug where served to his officer bugs, before they were killed too.

[@foofoo3344]

Viva la Résistance!!!

[@Aleonore22]

Health inspection just got serious

[@PhiloYT1]

The fact that the "femme fatale" is Asian and the fact that she reveals close-cropped hair at the end shouldn't be overlooked, I think. Perhaps the authors could comment?

[@alexino1838]

Hi PhiloYT1 ! I'm Alex one of director of Resistance, thank you for your comment. Maybe we were influenced by the asian aesthetic to create the "femme fatale" but the goal was'nt to give origin to this character. She just represents humanity. When she shows off her real hair we wanted to show off her double play. Like an actress after a show, she changes her appearance after having seduced her audience and becomes herself again.

[@PhiloYT1]

@@alexino1838 Hi Alex and thanks. It's easy to sometimes read too much into a story. I thought by making her Asian you wanted to remind people that this happened not only in Europe but in Asia also. And during the war, female "collaborators" had their heads shaved in Italy and I think France too. Some in the underground got this treatment because they played their roles too well. I think too much! 😆

[@hilaryc3203]

Amazingly done, but quite gruesome. Top skills in composition and design.

[@henrybrowne7248]

Shades of Kafka!

[@realhorrorshow8547]

So much said and so much more implied in six and a half minutes with no dialogue. This is excellent.

[@gabrielpineirogarcia2078]

I kinda feel bad for the bugs. They were just having a nice evening and were murdered for no reason

[@Tespri]

They made disgusting act appear acceptable by showing targets of violence as bugs. Basically dehumanizing them as much as possible.

[@MrMarq22]

The was creepy on many levels

[@Bildgesmythe]

Great!

[@lloydrobert6182]

Substance, style and crunchy sounds. My dinner went well. Dust done did it again!

[@verzeda]

Awesome video, but if they can be taken out by CHEFS, how did they take over the entire world lmao

[@sparkysmalarkey]

Distracted by luxury, lust, gluttony, and overconfident in the effect of their control . . . they got lazy, and laziness means relying on others to do the work i.e. providing a window of opportunity.

[@jefftheriault5522]

They have the "Gravity gauge". They can drop big rocks anytime they like. Eventually, the string of outrages fosters a "go ahead, we don't care anymore." attitude on the part of the humans.

[@michaelallwood9010]

they are insects, so sheer numbers alone would suffice.

[@starwing0]

Realistically they wouldn’t find her attractive

[@WitchDoctorLarry]

I know right? It would be as if a lizard person would be attracted to that filthy peace of hair you all got on your head. There is nothing like a nice colorful and figure-hugging pattern on the scales. Ok now it's out. I am a scales guy. And I am proud of it!

[@matthewallen2273]

There was a Japanese man dated a cockroah he named Lisa for 2 years. Sentient bugs might have similar fetishs. At least we would hope bugs would need intelligence to become kinky.

[@v4v777]

They symbolically depicted as cockroaches.. probably they are just Nazi officers.

[@MidnightDStroyer]

Cockroaches (& most if not all other bugs) would find human meat attractive as another meal...In this case, they were probably thinking "desert."

[@mityok999]

Изумительно! Великолепно! Актуально...

[@robinmabbott7334]

Now that was good No need to call the exterminator just the Resistance

[@Shaylok]

So sad. They were just enjoying an evening of fine dining and entertainment. Ungracious hosts.

[@rpagayangurusessions9662]

What I don't get is why would a bug find human females attractive makes no sense

[@gmailalan]

Only if you take the bug as a symbol of some undesirable occupying military force taking whatever they want. You might describe these people such as the Gestapo in their Long black leather coats as cockroaches!

[@mikeuk666]

Superb

[@suevans6436]

my absolute favourite.

[@slytex1952]

Some Kubrick, some Kafka, and a not a lick of Hollywood. That's a whole lotta HELLZ YEAH! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@PreppenWolfLLC]

Amazing.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

A shiny layer of Ooze over thier skin would top off the Creep factor by 10000 ! Just as I'm loving it ....Fin 😭

[@d.j.fowers456]

Lesson Learned. Call an exterminator when you first see a problem................ (Joking... really great work guys!)

[@willemvandeursen3105]

Champagne...but they didn't get anything to eat, lol. Excellent production.

[@JayRev_Music]

Yeah, the sound design here - makes me wanna meet and shake hands with the brilliant sound team in this one! Just PERFECTION!

[@thetalkingshrimp5683]

Loved this! It echoed of scenes from a ww2 dinner, soldiers being tricked into having a meal so that a high value target could be taken care of.