Sci-Fi Short Film "Telescope" | Throwback Thursday | DUST

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"Telescope" directed by Collin Davis and Matt Litwiller
Written by Eric Bodge
More About Telescope:
That’s the starting premise of Collin Davis & Matt Litwiller's “Telescope.” This thoughtfully crafted short film follows a brave cosmic archaeologist as he travels back in time to capture photos of the once vibrant planet. As he travels further back in time, we learn that the galaxy and time he came from has a lifeless Earth with no organic life left on its surface. It’s hard to finish the film without feeling nostalgia for an Earth that is being taken for granted.
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[@FactTalkOfficial]

"The day will come when people will look back through space and time to witness what we once were, peering into the abyss. The abyss appears to return our gaze." These lines are so captivating!

[@voon1032]

You have no knowledge of literature XD

[@theripleyeffect5203]

​@@voon1032Better to educate a person than to bully them.

[@Astronomator]

What a great film. The astronomer's decision to proceed farther from Earth, though it will be his last act, so he can see it in the more distant past and perhaps get a glimpse of life, is both heartbreaking and life-affirming. Well done.

[@thaska6106]

"As men tied to the Earth, we dream of visiting the stars. As men tied to the stars, we will dream of returning home." Eric Bodge "Telescope" 2013

[@thedutchonequestioneveryth4128]

Human caracter in one simple explanation.

[@daveross7731]

Men tied to the stars in what context? Physically going there?

[@daveross7731]

@@thedutchonequestioneveryth4128 *character

[@thaska6106]

@@daveross7731 Yeah, in the shortfilm, by the way, have you seen it? The earth is totally collapsed and nobody can live on planet earth anymore. Tied to the stars, physically.

[@martamarin8688]

Our real home, I know we are creatures of earth, our only and real home, science fiction is good to see but not good to live It, All our efforts must be made in order to save our world, I cant imagin the pain of losing It as we are doing ...😢😢

[@visitingyu3556]

Great sci-fi. I took a vicarious journey into space through time with a knowledgeable space traveler. The cinematography is impressive.

[@bouriman]

I've seen this before... But I don't mind if I see him Again ... Great, especially the optimistic space music. We want a whole movie like this.

[@doktormcnasty]

Yes, this is recycled material.

[@chuckintexas]

@@doktormcnasty - Indeed, but the best stuff often _is_ 👍. The best movies are almost ALWAYS based on established concepts ( _sometimes_ previously presented in whole or in part ... ) viewed in a different perspective, and this short really IS something that could form the basis for an EXCELLENT full-format story !

[@DAKOTA56777]

@@chuckintexas No, he doesn't mean this is based on older stuff, he means this is directly a reupload of the exact video.

[@hitesh6245]

Love how this is set in 90s, as though the future for that era turned out just the way they envisioned- with the tech, the music, the clothes and the overall vibe...

[@dalebecause2467]

This is like the 3rd or 4th time I have watched this one. It is definitely one of the better DUST productions. Top 20.....

[@dansheltonmeekins962]

FIFTY.FIVE.YEARS, 5.MONTHS, 5DAYS... THIS WILL BE REALITY... ARCHIVED...8.22.22

[@chuckintexas]

The best movies are almost ALWAYS based on established concepts ( _sometimes_ previously presented in whole or in part ... ) viewed in a different perspective, and this short really IS something that could form the basis for an EXCELLENT full-format story !

[@markdoyle9642]

This Short Film is FANTASTIC in every aspect! Thank You, RESPECT!

[@MarkSweeting_]

Excellent!

[@burningchrome70]

We'll be gone and forgotten, like tears in the rain.

[@hansmaiser7833]

Bladerunner ;-)

[@doloresikbaker2371]

THANK YOU, SO BEAUTIFUL. WE HUMANS LOVE EARTH. OUR BODIES WERE DESIGNED TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY EARTH. EVEN OUR SKIN CAN BE DELIGHTED WITH A WARM SPRING BREEZE!

[@icysteve46]

WATCH OUT FOR THAT ROCK! Damn. Nevermind.

[@MultiMam12345]

And the award for best-supporting actor goes to Sound & vision.

[@anontaku1]

God Damnnn what is this Background music???? Also amazing CGI and concept

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Wonderful short film. So much to think about. ✨

[@haraldmohr8306]

With his spacecraft & his super telescope he jumps farer and farer away till he may see the blue earth, filled with live even if it costs him his own live; how inconceivably valuable it must be for him. May God receive his soul...

[@donaldreason5664]

B.REASON Wow !!! That young man in the space ship says nothing but captures and keeps my attention focused completely on his every move !!!! What an amazing actor !!! Wow !!!

[@TheReverb1]

acting is not good he looks better to walk in a Jamaican beach smoking a spliff than as a ship commander/pilot

[@psy8917]

@@TheReverb1 racist

[@ohdannyboy4727]

D/A/D star echoes in the search bar. Your welcome. 🥂

[@Mad1943Anthony]

awesome soundtrack

[@shahriarabdullahsiddique4925]

This is much expensive than my gaming PC. Amazing production.

[@charlesanderson32]

Excellent

[@peterruiz6117]

Very aawsuum....Great words, too. "What goes up, feels like coming back down"

[@atlara]

As always, excellent! Traveling this way through the stars is still a distant dream, but that Sci-Fi brings us with works like this!

[@AffordBindEquipment]

all that sophisticated computer equipment, and they are still working in DOS screens! VIVA la Commodore computers!

[@pianoman1379]

Science fiction is derived imagination from that point in time, none of us can imagine what things will be like let alone how far we can advance with technology, heck, in Space 1999 tv series they thought we would be living and working on the moon

[@AffordBindEquipment]

@@pianoman1379 the year is 2183. so the civilization in the vid can develop space drives that will take them 75 light years into space but still in DOS screens? Don't know when this was first released, but whoever designed the set with "derived imagination" can do some amazing computer graphics but couldn't conceive something past DOS? DOS was released in 1981. The first version of Windows was 1985.

[@emmanuelstamatakis8218]

So I’ve seen this one 20 times and I keep watching it man must be a great actor it’s got me hooked good job thank you midnight dust guys are awesome!!!

[@t.me_s_petizioni_2220]

Va be', un attore che in questo film tiene costantemente una uguale espressione facciale e tace.

[@Shorts11327]

If An advanced civilization 65 million million light years away had an enormous telescope pointed at earth they would see the dinosaurs roaming our planet

[@SAINT-ANTONIO]

Every starship of that class shall have industrial part replicators 😄... To replicate engine parts ! Some sort of Molecular synthysizer able to print and fuse atomic structures!

[@henrimatisse7481]

beautiful Dust!

[@nphiro5030]

Love hearing Stellardrone in the background.

[@douglasdouglas5376]

stellardrone

[@Comicsluvr]

I was only a minute or so in and I already loved the look of the ship! Well done all the way around!

[@kn9ioutom]

I TRANSMIT TERFORE I AM !!!

[@charlesharper7292]

Wow, what a concept. A manned time traveling telescope. Very cool. Thanks!

[@jimhart1959]

Very nice! For a short it told a complete story, well done!

[@andrewjenery1783]

Very enigmatic and engaging and certainly food for thought.

[@ronhanks4610]

This was very well done, one day I hope someone makes it into a full movie.

[@daveross7731]

Not really

[@alexoelkers2292]

@@daveross7731 thanks for your input dave...

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

VERY cool.

[@JonnoPlays]

This one was really good.

[@grammybear4226]

🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Texas, USA 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍 🧚‍♂ 🐈 🧚 🍀 💐

[@user-bc6im2rm9c]

This is my kind of world's I'm from the years 2039 .

[@Rares.E]

Thank you!

[@thedutchonequestioneveryth4128]

Loved to watch it. Loved the music!!!

[@HiddenPalm]

HOLY SMOKES! This is close to the message in Ad Astra, but this was more interesting to me. Thank you.

[@k13ehr]

Music sounded like Jean Michel Jarre, craft controls don't match up with shown abilities such as jumping but a great little movie.

[@jasonwatt8975]

Jimmy jam jar we called him because we were in such a mess listening to him, good times!

[@lexfauser3009]

And I must also think of the music of Jean Michel Jarre. At least one piece of the music in this movie I find the sound like Jean Michel Jarre!

[@rv_ram]

Only legend know that it's re-uploaded

[@gilberrocal1363]

top notch , kudos to all. just keep on suprising me.

[@Danetto]

nice visuals

[@markaubuchon6265]

Good effects!

[@sashayudkin4123]

Excellent!! What a woinderful movie! Love it!

[@kevinhart7350]

This was fantastic. So thought provoking....

[@debratunnicliff7441]

I would so love to see this as an 2 hour movie! I'd pay to see it, that's for sure! Are you all thinking of doing this as a full length movie?

[@LS-ot4ho]

very cool

[@wolwerineq6765]

pure poetry

[@kurkspetterson3557]

A master peace keep going, shows the real path of this planet

[@roccov3614]

The only thing that threw me off was the year. I might have believed 3183 but not 2183. If we ever develop faster than light travel (if it's even possible) it will be in the far, far distant future; not in a couple of hundred years.

[@starcraft2own]

The difference between the 1800, 1900 and the 2000 are staggering. Who knows what 2100 is going to hold? It's not like we could even imagine how the world would look in a hundred year with any level of accuracy for back then, so why would we be able to now? What if science figures out how to manipulate quantum physics in 2120, how then would you be able to predict the advancements in the next 60 years from that point. Hell, the world might be entirely automated by 2100's, so just imagine the advancements an unshackled humanity could do in a hundred years after that. I wouldn't at all bet on a future where there isn't a lunar and mars colony so massive they will be considered independent celestial powers by the year 2183.

[@RandomGamer-qy6ys]

Faster than light travel is at most 50 years away due to new discoveries in energy confinement we’d only need the mass of Jupiter in energy to travel Ft L which a fusion reactor could push out if maxed out

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

I agree. The Alcubierre drive works, in theory, but it needs an insane amount of energy. And still, that drive would be extremely slow to travel between stars, even at many times the speed of light. Good for traveling between planets in the same solar system, but still slow for interstellar travel. I am more concerned about the premise, not original and based on the myth of the scarcity of resources. A natural disaster as the premise would be something refreshing for a change. I am tired of being lectured to be honest.

[@starcraft2own]

@@RandomGamer-qy6ys Wait hold on, what do you mean a fusion reactor could produce the mass of jupiter in energy? What kind of timeframe are we talking about?

[@RandomGamer-qy6ys]

@@starcraft2own if a fusion reactor can heat up to 20x that of the core of the sun it can power a warp drive.

[@spacecowgurl57]

23 years from now. It breaks my heart at the possibility 💔

[@martamarin8688]

If we loose our Planet...we shall be Lost too, we all know that but we arent doing anything to avoid it, do save our Planet an do forget that salvation its in the space 😢

[@bad_covfefe]

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that there is any threat to life on Earth or even to the human race. That's just fearmongering and pseudoscience.

[@theoutlawx3668]

Yes!!! we want more! we want more!

[@ottodidakt3069]

Perfect !

[@moreirasp]

Impressionante, os detalhes da nave, o computador, muito realista, amo acompanhar o canal Dust. Pena que não ter no idioma português Brazil.

[@TheReverb1]

Lo peor es la nave...¿Cómo un humano extra terrestre va a tener la misma tecnología que acá y además en el año 2189?

[@CabrioDriving]

This one is much better than the other one.

[@lr937]

Beautiful ❤

[@dalekkiller]

I find it interesting how soon all organic life ends on Earth.

[@xtofury]

That's because it is based on global warming alarmist's propaganda.

[@beautifulfaith9367]

More please! 😎

[@dnisey64]

Thank you

[@Neil-qo4nv]

Very very thought provoking indeed.... The Best and most poignant Short film I have seen. Alot of Emotions fitted into such a small timeframe. Really well done, thankyou.

[@theripleyeffect5203]

Well done!

[@megamanx466]

Very good film! 😃

[@7gadmuzik]

Who's watching this movie on a Black Friday ⚫ like I am ⁉️🤔 likes on 👍

[@seriousbutfunny2]

Very well done!!! I will be sharing this.

[@mcleber100]

Awesome film!

[@c4sualcycl0ps48]

Ha, I just went looking for my favorites last night and this was one of them.

[@avgejoeschmoe2027]

Ahhhhh I just saw this get added, saw it back when it first came out. Doggone space potholes.

[@svtbass]

The year 2183 and they have CRT screens and 1970s RED LED apollo era electronics in theri flight control systems. HA

[@SunnyOst]

At some point spaceships are bound to become so common and routine that you'll tune and customize yours however you like, he's just into retro 😛

[@pianoman1379]

At least they got past windows 95

[@user-tb1yr3jf5l]

The eye of terror

[@PrabhatKumar-fn4vy]

Amazing

[@neilkendrick4976]

effin amazin: one of the best short films i have seen. period, ever. [well, so far].

[@nikolaknoblauova7380]

And when man will dreaming about Home return...it will be no way Home anymore....

[@ridervisor9310]

This is telescope James Webb version 2.0 .... Is posibble 😊

[@hateswhitewhales]

awesome!!

[@jamesblinzler1637]

This is a good one. Your future is DUST :)

[@luciuscato4859]

Takk!

[@almatt21]

22nd century knobs and switches, he he he. Great film though, enjoyable

[@m118lr]

I KNEW it..space debris, finally.

[@timmotel5804]

Good one. Thank You

[@vincecallagher7636]

This is an excellent story. The production is lacking, but not the acting. Worth your time. Thnx dust.

[@marcuswall8852]

Awesome film, nice visuals 👍😊 What software was used creating these CGI effects?

[@Rich6Brew]

Effects?

[@marcuswall8852]

@@Rich6Brew Yeah, like the spaceship from outside for instance…

[@hansmaiser7833]

@@marcuswall8852 Try Blender, it´s free ;-)

[@marcuswall8852]

@@hansmaiser7833 Ok, thanks! Will do 👍😊

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Next 200 years will decide it all

[@GabrielVargas-jm7eh]

I guess I'm not the only one who has thought of this imagine what human kind can make out the faces who we don't have a clue to what they look like or what they have built

[@christopherjames3524]

Predictable. And the earth won't turn into a nebulae

[@Z-add]

command prompt survived till 2183.

[@fivish]

The 'futuristic space craft had CRT displays and switches and knobs from the 1990's. It had an ineffective shield which allowed a destructive penetration. Does hyperspace allow travel back in time? Dont think so.

[@TheMaulam12345]

it feels very 90's , i like it, maybe they do it on purpose

[@valdemaar3000]

This guy is a rock) Even after a hit he still shows no emotion. Perfect aKting)

[@mikechandler236]

I hope that far in the future we still aren't relying on keyboards for data entry😅

[@ghostsy]

Very nice ty :)

[@xxAlchem1stxx]

I like!

[@likefire1617]

The science fits..

[@donp3997]

Good to know that there is still duct tape used in the future, but sadly no knowledge of how to wear a wristwatch.

[@annemckeon6532]

This was a lovely film. The actor was great. The music together with the close ups of his searching eyes and face went really well together. I didn't understand what was on that piece of paper that he kept looking at though. Can anyone enlighten me please?

[@vryusvin3905]

In my opinion, it was a drawing of Earth as it appeared with continents and without the dense clouds obscuring the surface (which I figured were from whatever disaster befell the planet). A representation of what it would look like when there was life there, so he would know what to look for.

[@Caprica-od6oc]

@@vryusvin3905 I agree. I think at some point I think you can see Europe and Africa (faintly) After all, on his last jump that's what he sees.

[@annemckeon6532]

@@vryusvin3905 Thanks for that. Peace to you.

[@annemckeon6532]

@@Caprica-od6oc Thanks for your response. Peace to you.

[@Trumpstinks]

If you could travel faster than light and had a 🔭 capable of seeing earth from 65 million light years away, you could see dinosaurs.

[@samuelluria4744]

@BINGO One - Total conjecture.

[@triplec8375]

Good video. Like most sci-fi, however, it depicts traveling through hyperspace as a violent shaking. It is more likely, however, that since 3D space which contains the matter is completely avoided, then it should be smooth sailing.