Short About A Cyborg Who Can Interact with (and Steal from) the Past
In this sci-fi time travel short called “Time Trap,” a cyborg space traveller crash lands on a barren, post-apocalyptic Earth, where he must use a “Portable Time Bubble Generator” to steal resources from the past to repair his ship. We’re all fascinated by the possibility of traveling through time, and this short features a fun and unique approach that skips the usual tropes and explores the idea of reaching into small pockets of the past to obtain necessary objects, rather than traveling to the past to alter the present/future.
The short was written and directed by Michael Shanks, whose VFX work you should be familiar with if you're one of the millions of people who watched the George Lucas Special Edition Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer spoof. This original effort of his oozes a retro vibe and successfully mines laughs with virtually no dialogue. What’s that, you say? “Shut up. Shut up. You had me at time travel.” That’s what I thought.
Thanks to io9!