The Anomaly | Award-Winning Sci-Fi Mystery Short Film 

George Romero made Night of the Living Dead on the cheap with hard work. Look how it turned out 👾

You did good. Masterful cinematography, and what a performance! Kudos to you and the entire creative team from a fellow storyteller. P.S. How *about* this score?! Love it!

@@barrahart Thanks so much man, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I certainly can't take all the credit here... we had an excellent friend of ours as the cinematographer, and our co-director is additionally a very skilled composer.

@@blakekinseyfilms My very best to all of them 🤍

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How about the people who have committed suicide because patients with chronic pain cannot get relief? You should be ashamed. Supporting cutting off pain Rx because of drug abusers, is shameful.

@@kathymc234 Did I ever say I was against giving painkillers to patients in need of them? No I didn't. I'm only against the abuse of these drugs, as well as doctors constantly prescribing them to people who get easily addicted, so would it kill you to actually think before responding?

Read the description!

She is a test subject for side affects of the Environmental drug. Her mother overdosing at the hospital gives a clue to her own overdose. Even after fracturing her ankle, the drug restores perfect mobility, but at a terrible cost.

@Jon Little Probably the reason why I’m actively releasing work and striving for growth while you are leaving a weird amount of hate comments.

And forced everyone to take the preventative without knowing its effects?

The Manhattan Principles. look it up

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Friends, look up Nestle baby formula scandal. Know that whether you think we live in a simulation or not, it doesnt matter. Our mothers worldwide have been duped for 100 years. Cheers

Shhhh, you sound like a conspiracy theorist. Everyone knows that the pharmaceutical industry, along with our governments, only want what's best for us. To think anything else...would be insane, right?

This was shot in a section of Nantahala National Forest in the mountains of western North Carolina called “Granite City.”

@@blakekinseyfilms It so reminded me of the forests in Oregon. Actually made me a bit homesick for PNW!

Haha okay 😂

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Who knows what happens next with Earthwood Environmental...

What happens next? I don't even understand what happened here. Was she dead there at the end? If so, what killed her?

Mission accomplished!

Yup that pretty much sums it up

You are correct

That was my goal. Your 15 minutes are mine now.

@@blakekinseyfilms hahaha good answer! 👍 btw, I really enjoyed it. 😊

Yes. Made a few years ago in film school, during the height of the pandemic, and on the tightest timeline I’ve ever had to make anything. Publicized because, as it turns out, movies are actually tremendously hard to make. Never letting it see the light of day, despite the outcome, is a discredit to all the hard work to all those involved. Sorry you didn’t enjoy 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@blakekinseyfilms Okay, I understand the feelings you have to not let all that work be "wasted." But it's not wasted, even if you don't publicize it. Take the example of a musician who practices hours for an upcoming concert, and the practicing contains many experimental and repetitive passages done so that mistakes become unlikely. All that practicing is just as useful as the practice movies you make, but the musician doesn't record the practice and publicize it. I also have written many things in essays that I'd never ask people to read because they were more for practice. It's only my most edited and refined essays that I'd ask someone to read. That's a courtesy because all our time is precious, and there are much more rewarding things available to spend it on. It seems to me that the vast majority of what's on RU-vid, which is maintained in memory, which expends resources, is trash. It's analogous to the trash that winds up in landfills. Our society needs to generate less trash. Nature is sick of it.

@@beingsentient filmmaking is an audience-facing medium. You’ll never know what’s working without the criticism of an audience. I’ve made lots of shorts since this one, and grown in the process. Truthfully I don’t really care if people resonate with it or not. At the end of the day, I know what I like about the piece, and I know the problems too. But ultimately I care more for the dedicated people who worked to help bring it to life much more than an internet audience where everyone seems to have a different opinion on what qualifies as worthy of their time.

@@blakekinseyfilms Thanks for telling me the truth. As I understand it, you really don't give a sh*t whether a significant part of the public thinks your videos are worth watching. And your main reasons to make it public are for your own satisfaction. Isn't that self centered and wasteful? And isn't it egotistical? Is it just to brag about, that you have a video on RU-vid for the sake of having a video on RU-vid? If so, you're like the countless teenagers who post and waste tremendous resources to publicize what they had for breakfast or how they put on their lipstick or the concerns they have about their pet cats or that their boyfriend did give them flowers. I do suggest that you make your videos and share it among fellow video makers and after you get a good consensus among them that the video is worth bothering the public about, you can go the next step to get opinions from the public. It's people like you who are flooding Dust, Omeleto, and other channels with junk. You're degrading the whole industry for your own selfish motives.

Ya, or thems really good pills!

Did a good job too, she was up and running around immediately

I was confused from the start. They make it about the Anomaly(!) in the short text first, and then it's all the drug that is making shit happens.. I see nothing about the place, the Anomaly(!)....

Well thanks for giving it another shot. Hope your ankle heals swiftly.

I’m so glad it resonated with you!

So you "see" an explanation of how things should be, but than can't figure out if it's the drugs that is the culprite, because the explanation you were told doessn't seem to have anything to do with things? This movie is just so weird, and strange, nothing makes real sense. And you "teach" this?

Thanks so much Larry!

Pretty simple. Festival programmers & judges watch your film, and then they decide. I don't make the rules.

Ugh the worst kinda burger 😂

Glad you liked it! That was a particularly tough scene to shoot. It was a very slippery location so the actor's safety definitely came first.

Love that! ❤ For sure gonna remember it. I'm 59 & it's like zooming, ZOOMING by!! 😮😮

Totally understand. They're a little ominous. Basically her mother was once in the hospital and was prescribed opiods, quickly becoming addicted, causing her overdose. This is meant to infer why Noelle becomes dependent on Earthwood Environmental's drug, ultimately leading to yet another overdose.

Then why are we so overdoes at the start, that its THE PLACE that is so important, just to switch, and it's all the drug's fault...?

it just made no sense at all, i wonder why this was an award winner?????