Great job, Harald! This is a movie I would love to see - and a time I would love to live in.

Yes, finally somebody who gets it!
A future where we utilise technology in an intelligent way, instead of the usual projections of war, power, money, bla bla bla...

A Resource Based economy, access abundance, systems theory. Can't wait to see the full movie ;)

excellent!

Love it. So when they exit the lovely forest to venture into the city, will it happen to be a circular format that's highly efficient and amazingly beautiful? ;)

Great. But I don't get it, why didn't he saw the 'Welcome to the present' video? By that time they would have figured out that automation is more efficient and effective, right?

Everything about this short scene is the closest of perfection I've ever seen. The quality of the picture, the dialogue, the acting, the message....Brilliant!!! This will be shared at a rapid pace over the internet, and I will add at least a 1000 viewers to see this very promising and "awakening" moment. The first ever uplifting view of the future. This short scene made my day, thank you!!!

love this video. thanks! salute to all those involved, especially the screenwriter!

great message! just a little criticism: a rock solid humane and scientific message like this should not be presented based on a totally unscientific premise like waking up people that were cryogenically frozen in 2010. it is proven that the cells (including the brain) of the people who are frozen today, are irreversibly damaged in the process. so using this premise makes the whole message look silly. maybe you could think of another way to tell this story.

I love that future! I know that this future could be tomorrow, if we overcome the barriers that separate us, and if the world culture was given to the philosophy "what we really need?" Consume? Wasted? Be financially rich or humanly?
Moving Forward

Nice done!

LovED it! the future is NOW!!!!

This is beautiful... Good luck with this project...

Loved it!

Thank you everyone for votes and comments! :)

Hello Harald, you have some fans on the ZM forum.
Everyone was sad when Z-radio had to be rescheduled but understand. The clip and concept is fantastic. Hope you get the win in the contest and this concept continues to evolve, including the backpack idea.

Will there be any chance that the audience could comment during the interview or have you reviewed any of the comments and suggestion about the project on the ZM forum?

After Ben exits the Doc's office with his prognosis he stops into a cafe for a for a double espresso. He plans to never go to sleep again and see and do all he can with the little time he has left..
Aweena mother, Betty , played by Aweena 2110, slides the coffee across the counter along with a white envelope and tells him that it is a promotion he may be interested in. As Ben settles in to contemplate what he has to do with this time he opens the envelope to find an exclusive innovation to several one of a kind adventures offered through Sir Richard Hansons, Glatic Adventure
Network. The adventure network of the Billionaires. They have excellent target marketing.
After browsing through the ultimate and mega expensive adventures. Ben has received these promotions before. Only the one percent could afford to toss away all those resources and get nothing in return, he finds the one with the bulls-eye. For One Billion you can be frozen while out in space and sent off on a 100 year round trip to the edge of our solar system and back. You can then tell all your friends you have been there.
300 singed up. Ben was #299..........

To Mr. Sando - Loved the film! I work for a non-profit org fostering life extension and cryonics is high on our list. I have the pleasure of working with varied professionals from the US & European cryonics orgs, and research facilities. I spearheaded a cryonics first response team in my county, comprised solely of medical professionals.

To comment on Bright Geist's statement (above) that the cells of those currently cryopreserved are irreversibly damaged - such is not necessarily true. By current science/technology standards, yes, we have no manner of repair, but nanotechnology is the key, holding the greatest promise for repairing damage at the cellular or atomic level. There are learned professionals today working on plausible revival scenarios. It is a common belief within the cryonics community that the first patients cryopreserved will require greater progressions in science than those more recently preserved as the protocols have vastly changed. The early cryopreservations were done via a straight freeze during which many cells ruptured however, patients are now preserved through what is called the vitrification method - a method of freezing which takes a patient directly to the glass stage of freezing, bypassing the crystal stage of freezing where the damage occurs - lesser advancements in science/technology will be required to revive patients who were vitrified as the damage is purported to be significantly minimized.

From reading several of the post above, I gleaned that this short film is a prelude to a future, full length film project? That would be fantastic - as long as it were accurately depicted - society deserves to learn about cryonics as a plausible alternative to traditional burial/cremation instead of being mislead by the dramatic license all-to- often employed in sci fi films.

Aside from working for a non-profit fostering life extension and cryonics, I am the daughter of a funeral director and was raised Roman Catholic. Yes, certain ingrained beliefs have stymied me (briefly) during my research into cryonics however; I was raised to be very open minded and where I may falter as to ethics and/or morality, my inquisitive nature and thirst for greater knowledge takes over and I quickly forge ahead.

This is my first post on Vimeo, but I will slate this site to check for further posts.

Again Mr. Sando - loved the short film - to the degree that I've shared it with others in the cryonics community!

"It is a common belief within the cryonics community that the first patients cryopreserved will require greater progressions in science than those more recently preserved as the protocols have vastly changed. The early cryopreservations were done via a straight freeze during which many cells ruptured however, patients are now preserved through what is called the vitrification method - a method of freezing which takes a patient directly to the glass stage of freezing, bypassing the crystal stage of freezing where the damage occurs - lesser advancements in science/technology will be required to revive patients who were vitrified as the damage is purported to be significantly minimized."

I like this.
I would like to add it as dialog to the part where Ben comes in for his, fifth, second opinion.

"That would be fantastic - as long as it were accurately depicted"


I see this projects timeline from now 2010 to 100 years from now, 2110.
Not sure how "accurately depicted" you can be within those guidelines. check out all the links and the google dock page.
You could be a valuable asset to this project.

One more thing,
I would like to see a little recycle bot follow up on Ben and pick up his coat for recycling.

THIS IS GREAT! Are you familiar with The Zeitgeist Movement, RBE or The Venus Project? I think it's a great way of showing tha perspective ;) Cheers and keep up the good work!

This will be a great movie!
It reminds me of this line i saw in one of the Zeitgeist films: "Art must show the world as changeable and help to change it" :)

WOnderful! Just wonderful!!!! Oh! You make me feel as if I was born WAY TOO EARLY!!!

Yes please!