MOUSE X Short Film Is a Sci-Fi Mystery Mind Trip
"Who are you if you're not the only you?"
Please take 15 short minutes out of your day to watch this fantastic sci-fi short film called "Mouse X." It's a mystery thriller that has some fun, unexpected twists and turns. The story follows a man named Anderson who wakes up in a building. He has absolutely no idea where he is or how he ended up there. As he tries to figure things out, he slowly discovers that the rooms around him contain a thousand clones of himself, and they all woke up in the same situation. "To escape he needs to outwit his 'selves' whilst overcoming the realization that he is not the only Anderson…"
The short was directed by Justin Tagg, and it's quite the mind trip. The director explores the perception of identity and explains in an interview with Short of the Week,
“I started with a thought which was just to help me get my head around my narrative. ‘How am I the only me?’ If I could be copied right now, every physical part of me… would that new person be me? Even for an instant? If not, you’d assume that something that makes me ‘me’ is not physical, not contained within my body and it might exist elsewhere. Where could that be?”
That all turned into the short you about to see. He went on to explain,
“The metaphor I used to describe it is that of a dice. Something that comes to represent the idea of chance. But a dice is not a random object. Is it? The ‘chance’ comes from our inability to know all of the parameters that might change the roll of the dice. In laboratory conditions would we not be able to roll a six every time? A dice is the illusion of chance. I began extending that to the world of Mouse-X and asking what if we could learn about human behavior using these laboratory conditions, at a really small almost molecular level and what that would mean for predicting it.”
He goes into some pretty deep stuff, but the short is great. He created an interesting, thought-provoking universe that I think many of you will enjoy, so check it out.
Via: io9