Short sf films 2010 (11–60-minutes duration)

In the last issue, I introduced the recent massive expansion of short films, detailing 440 such films from 2010 with a duration of ten minutes or less. In this issue, I present 415 titles from the same year with durations of up to one hour. Details and descriptions are adapted from IMDB, the films’ official websites and/or from viewing the films. Unless otherwise stated, the films are from the US.

11-minutes duration

Assisted Living (Sara Blake, N. W. Douglas; Canada). Forgotten inside a retirement home by her busy family members, Rosemary cherishes the friendship she has with a young man named Daniel. Despite his faithful visits, Daniel has secrets of his own. Upon learning the truth about her friend, Rosemary is catapulted into an inner battle betwee hard truths and comfortable lies.

Before We Slip (Emma Campbell; Canada). In a world where people can record their dreams, a group of people meet once a week to talk about them. Tensions rise when one group member starts having sexually explicit dreams about someone else in the group.

BoxWorld (Wes Terray). The outlandish adventures of frontier thieves, surveyors and overworked mailmen who live in a universe of infinite boxes.

Camp Thunderbolt (Edward Quist). The amusements of Coney Island have met their end. It is now a haunted place, a concentration camp for victims whose minds have been lured by the glamour of its past. Humans and non-humans alike cannot escape its carnival spell . . . chained at least for now.

Continue? (Nir Panigel, Amit Tishler; Israel). Woke up in the morning. It’s just another casual day, just another average job, just another level to complete.

Corporate (Valentina Bertuzzi; Italy). In an alternative present, many people use the Emotional Navigator, a digital life trainer.

Dromosphäre (Thorsten Fleisch; Germany). A visual study of velocity. The ephemeral phenomenon becomes palpable through an apparatus the filmmaker built himself. A speed sculpture begins a relativity dance along space–time avenues lined with uncertainty trees.

The Eldridge Estate (James Burke). A novelist discovers why the ten-bedroom mansion he has purchased was such a bargain.

Electrosmog (Ant Poussa; UK). A day in the life of a man who is relentlessly surrounded by technology and its horrible effects on him.

Fight for Your Afterlife (Maria B. Pavlou, Alexander Decommere: Greece). In a not too distant future, people will fight for something more important than their life. They will fight for their afterlife.

Finding Time (Ivan Kander). A young scientist attempting to discover time travel encounters a future version of himself.

Gifted [A Web Series] (Nicholas Jenkins). A high school girl struggles against friends and family with her special gift.

Hakushi (Guy Khandjian; Spain). Lara and Matt get in contact with Hakushi’s spirit, the guinea pig of a secret military experiment. In order to escape and to fight against this mysterious military group, Hakushi gives away clues and awakens Lara and Matt’s latent powers.

Heal Me [aka Spectrum] (Michael Ruiz-Unger). Spectrum is a story about a Catholic priest who is sent to survey a fast-growing cult which has built a machine which they claim performs miracles. With his sister sick in bed, Father John must choose between his current faith and a sure bet.

Hidden Voices (Yousaf Tariq; Pakistan). The tale of Kashif, a man obsessed with science and sound. His latest invention takes him into a world where sounds take an unexpected turn, and what he discovers gives him a nasty shock.

House Hunting (Angela Kennedy). Bloodsuckers are everywhere in this economy. Some are hungry for money, others are hungry for more. Careful whom you invite over for dinner. House hunting can suck the life out of you.

A Killer App (Keram Malicki-Sánchez). Need to find a way to reanimate your high-maintenance girlfriend after stabbing her in the throat with a soldering iron? There’s an app for that.

Leaving Neverland (Akhil Srivastava). After a mysterious virus kills off all adults and males, two sisters must struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by girls.

The Nuclear Standard (Evan Thies, Grant Babbitt...