Awesome Sci-Fi Short THE LORD OF ALL FUTURE SPACE & TIME is a Wild, Emotional Time-Bending Ride
There are short films that ease you into their worlds, and then there’s The Lord of All Future Space & Time, which opens by throwing a duffle bag out of thin air into the Nevada desert while a condemned man digs his own grave.
The opening line sets the tone: “In the beginning, there was a bag.” From that moment on, you’re locked in for something strange, funny, tragic, and unexpectedly moving.
That man is Dyson Wheeler, seconds away from being hanged, when fate literally drops an opportunity from the sky. He takes it, kills his captor with the very shovel meant to bury him, and escapes.
What follows is a spiraling sci-fi western odyssey driven by Wheeler’s need to avenge the death of his wife Rachel, a journey that somehow ends with the creation of our specific pocket of reality, “The Future That Matters To Us.”
The story escalates fast and gleefully. One poorly aimed shovel swing knocks a man “out of next Tuesday,” setting off a chain reaction that fractures time, rewrites human history, and reshapes reality itself.
The film grounds every cosmic detour in something painfully relatable. At its core, The Lord of All Future Space & Time is about grief and how a single broken heart can bend the universe in irreversible ways.
The tone walks a razor’s edge. Dark comedy collides with time-travel paradoxes, while emotional weight sneaks in through details you don’t expect. Brain clots, buffet sneeze guards, and multiversal destiny all coexist in a story that somehow feels intimate and deeply human.
It’s weird in the best way, genuinely funny, and quietly devastating when it needs to be. By the time the dust settles, the film leaves you thinking about love, loss, and how little control we really have over the flow of time.
The director summed up the heart of the project perfectly, saying: “This is a story about grief, about the flow of time and how our actions direct and re-direct that flow, in ways we can’t always anticipate.
“It’s a story about the unsolved and unspoken mysteries of existence: that we are born, live, and die, all without ever knowing why. Why it all manifested as a sci-fi western comedy, I don’t know. Just another of life’s mysteries.”
The Lord of All Future Space & Time uses sci-fi as a way to process loss and meaning, then wraps it all in a wildly entertaining package.
Honestly, this short is so good and I hope you all enjoy it!