Recursion - Sci-fi Horror Short 

1:26 That’s a first, a spaceship with a brick wall.

For a low budget I think you did an amazing job. Enjoyed. Well done.

The poor creature down there had to wait 52 years for its next meal :(

3-4 "Alien" movies crammed into one short film. How very original. Or something.

the best actor in this was the guy with the beard and glasses that told them about the storm

The fact that the 'making of' was longer than the short itself is true testiment to how much work actually goes into making these things. I think that the likes of Marvel with hundreds of special effect and compositing masters along with an almost limitless budget make 'low budget' movies hard to compete, but I think this does a great job. Well done.

Your set, props, and costumes were top-notch, along with your cinematography!

Wow :o very impressive. The production value of this is amazing!

Wow! Cool movie!! Whenever anyone in a film says “This place is uninhabited” you know immediately they’re going to be proved wrong ...

I WANT A PART TWO, OR A CONTINUATION OF WHAT THE IRIS DID AFTERWARDS...

Moral of the story is... Look both ways before you cross the street. In other words, don't go to planets that you don't know crap about. I think Earth would qualify.

Watched it again for the 3rd time. I really like this movie! Sci-fi horror and especially cosmic horror like this are my favorite type of science fiction movies. Its hard to find gems like this

5:26 you can see the use of an umpire face mask as some sort of a headrest for the chair, pretty clever use of props

Those washing machine hose holders come in handy..helmets.

I'm in the preproduction of a scifi short and this is a huge inspiration to me! You guys really killed the atmosphere and the cinematography is great. I love your guys take on the scifi helmet.

Aw man, a time-warping tentacle space-gorilla! This always happens! This is exactly why you need to bring tang on every space mission! No exceptions!

So much criticism. Give the maker peace. Well done. It was ace.

They have washing machine water take-away pipe attached to their protective helmets! Coupled with the brick wall, this is brilliant.

5:54 Because those people either died or disappeared. That's always the reason.

Very well done! Excelent pacing, great actors, love letter to first Alien.

Enjoyed your movie Caden, hope we all get to see more, the storyline was excellent.

hey c'mon,that was awesome.And i liked the little spacetime twist.

The Greatest, Most Transparent Yet Necessary & Passed Over Effect Ever Presented in SciFi History - *Earth Level Gravity Onboard Everything.*

This is really incredible! Very impressive

So good! Loved the homage to the alien series.

Really nice job you've done here. No bored moments, really good soundtrack, overall a great short film.

This is Dan O'Bannon speaking. I'm suing you! This is Walter Hill speaking. I'm suing you. This is Ron Shussett speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Ridley Scott speaking. I'm suing you! This is 20th Century Fox speaking. We're suing you ! This is Brandywine Productions speaking. We're suing you ! This is H.R. Geiger speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Sigourney Weaver speaking. I'm suing you ! This is John Hurt speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Tom Skerritt speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Ian Holm speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Veronica Cartwright speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Yaphet Kotto speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Harry Dean Stanton speaking. I'm suing you ! This is Jonesey speaking. I'm suing you ! You people had better get yerselves a damned good attorney !

This was awesome, had me on the edge of the seat. More than most big movies these days.

Ignoring the low budget, it worked well! I got pulled in with the story telling! Great lighting! And all these shoot in 3 days?!?!?! Incredible!

Didn’t see any space monsters too dark and this is what you call a sci-fi short film! I guess this is as good as it gets with this film. All this films did is leave the viewer hungry!😱

Time dilation nice catch Great job It reminds me of the old " Twilight zone episode where Jack Klugman and Ross Martin along with one more guy find a crashed ship with their own bodies inside . So .... Are these people dead and don't know it yet ??? Or did they , jump ahead somehow after sending that message to themselves from the past ??? Damn ... I love these " Who Done It , but Not then " .

"Alien" was a pretty good movie. Nice tip of the hat to it.

Whoa....excellent! Bring on the rest!

Dope job on this Caden! You are hustling hard on films bro, I love it!

I love deep space salvage with mysterious settlement stories!

The sound levels are all over the place, deafened the fuck out of me

Caden this was truly spectacular, amazing effort by your goodself and all the guys, absolutely bravo👏👌🎬 That's a rap folk's! Who needs vast amounts of cgi and rendering time using vfx with Maxon C4d or whatever when the old methods of cinematic story telling in visual effects still stand up to the tests of time! It's amazing what creative cinematic art direction can accomplish after scouting inside an old abandoned sawmill factory with the use of spray paint, overalls, modified football helmets with leds infront of a chromakey green screen studio using fog machines, leaf blowers, body harness, grinders and cine lightning with diffusers for visual effects not to mention with set design with Joe's expertise! The performances and efforts from all the team was really outstanding despite the heavy constraints on a shoestring micro low budget to produce this outstanding short film shot by a Rokinon 24mm T1.5 cine lens with anamorphic effect wow, great 1st AC and visual art coordination work from Dashawn! Caden your goodself and Mark, Joe, John, Jerry, Bonnie, Amanda and both with Stephen Lloyd and Stephen Morton and the rest of the crew would really put certain production groups in Hollywood to shame! It just goes to show that it's not just the camera but it's also the foley and sound effects, vfx, lightning, editing in post production with ideal musical accompaniment, performances and everything else that helps sell the finished production for a wider picture theatre audience! But with all that said the Black Magic mini Ursa 4.6k with it's 16bit really does pack a heck of a punch in the right hands as there's still great functionality from the old dog yet which still makes it an ideal piece of kit in my opinion for Indy vfx production and short films! Perfect sound and fast moving composition consistent with the rule of thirds all checked, couldn't fault it Golden popcorn award definitely! 🎬🍿10/10 👍

Interestingly, in the initial shot, the planet looks like it has a lot of areas with blue sky and hence no storms. Why didn't they land there?

Greetings from 2021- just saw your film and I loved it :D Great job to everyone involved!

Damned good job sir! Damned good... More please!!!

Great short! Keep up the good work!

Fantastic!

Oh snap! That was awesome! This needs to be picked up to be made into a full length film. So cool.

Funny how the old man kept tinkering a panel with only simple 1900s switches and indicator lamps. LOL...

That was awesome !! Loved it thanks for posting.

DIRECTING 👍 CINEMATOGRAPHY 👍 ACTING 👋

GREAT JOB - so impressed!!!

Very effective use of atmosphere. Great job.

I've saw this back in 1979. The longer version. It was called "Alien"

Great crewing....looked like just who you would expect to find on a commercial mining vessel

can definitely tell an "alien/aliens" fan made this. noticed the title "recursion" in alien fashion. also some sound effects from alien and covenant. gave this a like

Real nice job! Hope you had fun making this.👍

They thought they were landing on TL-14, _BUT IT WAS LV-426 THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!_

Good story...want more! The old guy on the ship was cool. Always helps to have a dude like him aboard. Knows a lot and all...Like the old dude on Z nation!

1:34 - so they're making spaceships out of bricks now? But - saw it coming at 5:14...

So, just to preface my critiques, I did actually enjoy this short. The pacing was good, and didn't leave me bored at any point. The grittiness of the effects made the universe feel 'lived in'. And, overall, I wanted to 'see' more of this narrative. That said, the thematic similarity to the Alien(s) franchise was pretty blatant. That's... not necessarily bad. But, if it isn't meant to actually be a part of the Alien(s) universe, it then detracts from the chance from something truly original. Also, the best part of the story - the 'time loop' - is something that deserves more emphasis. It certainly is the most tantalizing part of this story. It is what it is: A short film. And for that, it was a worthy offering. But, this story deserves a longer showing in order to reach something closer to its full potential. As it is, it was entertaining, but felt too much like just a very skillful Alien knock-off. Again, not inherently a bad thing, but I really want/wanted more.

Really enjoyed watching this one great job on a short film with an awesome ending!!! 👍👍

Major props for a what I gather was a no-budget effort. Despite the variety of flaws (the cost of that ship was off by at least several orders of magnitude), I'd watch whatever follows this up...

Qual lente você prefere a rokinon 24mm ou tamron 24÷70 ...Qual das 2 você achará cinematográfica.

Damn good film! Wish it could be made into full movie!

Won’t lie, thought that planet they landed on was gonna be a gas giant.

Anybody else catch the direct reference to Aliens ? "Whatever happened here, I think we missed it" But it turns out, they didn't ?

Nice job guys! Looking for a part 2 :-)

They harvesting resources around the universe but never heard about drones

This short was, in a word, outstanding. I love sci fi shorts, and at this point the number I have seen is into the hundreds. This one ranks up there at the very top for me. Every aspect from the acting to the cinematography to the editing was top notch. It was shot very well also. This is the work of a born filmmaker. People criticising the sets/ production value have obviously never made a short film on a small budget. If I had to guess this was made on a micro budget and it was still impressive all things considered. Personally I thought the brick wall down in the "engine room" looked cool. And the vacuum hose around the helmets was genius. Others will disagree, of course, but I enjoyed this 10 minute short made for no money a lot more than many 2 and a half hour 100 million dollar Hollywood crappy movies I have seen over the years. Well done. And to the good people complaining that this short has too much of a vibe from the " Aliens" movies, please chill out.

This must be a Canadian film. Everyone has a mustache 🤣. Great job

Good short, really liked it! The creature was pretty pressed at 9:11!

Looks great!

This is amazing! Could you give any tips or anywhere to look for creating space helmets/costumes? I've been trying to find resources to creating decent looking space helmets, but can't find much, and don't have $1000 for replicas lol

At a 1:20 a crewman asked "where are Fitz and Cruzaedo" At 8:41 Cruzaedo walks over to dead man and brushes off his name tag and it reads Cruzaedo. He realizes it's himself. Very good job. Hoping for a part II

Well done MR caden butera 👍👍

This was really good, but it needs a sequel. C'mon, Cruz finds a dead guy with HIS name on the uniform patch....? Time travel? Or it's his grandfather ? Either way, this needs further exploring . Well done👍

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t use cinder blocks or bricks to build a ship for interstellar travel.

Damn!!!! We need a whole movie... I would pay for the tickets to watch this 😁

I love the 22nd century glow sticks

If only this was a full length feature.....enjoyed every minute of this offering, but I want more......

Excellent!

Great Sci fi short. Well done and would like to see more of this universe 👏👍

Temporal Causality Loop

Cool helmets! :) Very creative!

It was good as far as it went when is there going to be a part 2?

The vacuum cleaner hose helmets were a nice touch!

There really needs to be a Part 2 to this.

Very nice work for ultra-low budget! I was wondering why a Billion dollar ship has old brick walls..Lol. The production value is good and the shots are very nice. The story moved well too. Could have used a couple more re-writes and not to use the piping around the helmet, but great job!

This was excellent!

What was the budget for this short 🧑‍🚀? very well done

best ending ever

Great video! Keep them coming!

"Why would the company keep that from us?" I'm going to let that slide once, but only once, man.

8:25 "Hey! Who turned out the lights?"

This is some like the twirl light zone when a space ship lands on a planet only to discover s crash space ship and they find their own bodies

Outra pergunta , o filme tinteiro foi filmadlr em 24mm pela rokinon

What we have here is a failure to consider the options. 1. All scripts that are made into movies are made with full budgets, in Hollywood. 2. There's a whole entertainment industry area where people who are studying/pursuing careers in filmmaking or acting make films on very low budgets. You'll see things like brick walls, dryer hoses, and other creatively low-cost props. It's neither embarrassing or surprising to see this; people who aren't famous, rich, or in Hollywood have talent and passion for making films, and they don't let a non-Hollywood budget stop them from collaborating and creating movies. I'm gonna go with option 2. Adding a congratulations to the cast and crew. I remember when this was being filmed. It's great to see it in complete form and I hope we see more of these characters.

Oh yes liked that :) @9:11 the monster reminds me of Forbidden Planet 1955

Very cool! Ready for part 2!!!

Good one, nice and scary!

3:54 . . . " Be careful out there *boys* " Now the counterpart would certainly bring fireworks!

Outstanding!

I really liked it, even though there were bricks in the spaceship, and that they went to another solar system for recourses when our own has more than enough for tens of thousands of years atleast.

Such intense