Short Film:

"Until Never Ends"

Overview

Imagine that someone close to you is dying, and there is nothing that can be done anymore to save them. For most it is the most horrible nightmare, they can think of. But what if there was a way to solve an age-old problem, and prolong life beyond death?

Grade Product: 8.5/10

Role

Co-writer, Director,Actor, and Editor

Made together with

Daniel Mols; Writer, Co-director, and Actor

This film project offers the solution and shows how someone could live without most of their psychical body, as a brain in a machine. The inspiration that led to this project came from various experiments conducted by Nenad Sestan, who has managed to keep pig brains alive for as long as 24 hours, basically extending the life of the pig for a whole day. If further developed, this research could lead to a machine containing a human brain and keeping it alive for months or years.

The project shows the audience the joys of this prolonged life, the pain of losing your physical body, and the impact it can have on someone’s mental state. The film will make the viewer question whether they value an extra year of life so greatly that they would want to live it as a brain in a machine. Inevitably, this would jumpstart the ethical discussion necessary to determine whether this kind of technology is the next step in human ‘evolution’, or whether it takes the ‘human’ out of humanity.

The project highlights moments from the prolonged life
of a physically sick wife and gives the viewer a glimpse
inside her life, and her husband’s. The short movie takes
place over several months to show the effect that time
has on someone with those kinds of limitations. The
viewer will experience the absence of the wife’s physical
body, the loss of most of her senses, the husband’s longing for his wife, and eventually her longing for death.

Even though death might come too early for many, the alternative of living without the elements of life that made
you feel alive might not be the best. Humanity’s constant
longing for extended life, whether through medical or
technological means, can end up evolving into the mental illness of never-ending life, and mess with the things
that make us feel human and alive. The project shows us
all these flavors of life in the form of movie scenes, and
how death might not be the last thing to long for after
losing them.

The Short Film