Sci-Fi in the 80’s, in South Africa…

In an extended effort to stave off boredom on a rainy day, germ has been slinging some groovy web -shorts my direction. Alive in Joburg is kind of old, but still kind of pertinent as the director, Neill Blomkamp, is in theory at the helm of the as-yet-still-hypothetical, but supposedly-coming-soon Halo film. I generally don’t support video games being made into movies (the track record is absolutely dismal – there’s not enough space) but if this guy can make an interesting short out of apartheid-era news coverage and some cheap special effects, he might just pull it off. Of lesser fame but just as good (if not better) is the short TempBot, an interesting take on the modern work place.