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1. Oasis Terminal

by Ruben Fernández

4 months ago

Science Fiction Short Film. 16mm. English subtitles. 25 years into the future, civilization has been destroyed by nuclear war. Andres, one of the few survivors, searches for a mythical place called The Oasis, the only hope for mankind.

Written and Directed by: Ruben Fernandez
Country: Colombia
Length: 15 minutes
Year: 2007
Cast: Andres Sandoval, Ruben Di Pietro, Rey Vazques, Catalina Navas, Julian Caballero
Executive Producers: Veronica Echeverri, Lucrecia Villa
Cinematography: Dario Colmenares
Production Design: Carolina Zuluaga, Katerine Mendoza
Wardrobe: Carolina Rodriguez
Sound Design: German Ricaurte
Music: German Ricaurte
Visual Effects: Luciano Millan, Andrei Delgado, Jaime Guzman

Awards: Best Short Film, La Otra Mirada Film Festival, Bogota, 2008
Best Sound Design, El Espejo Film Festival, Bogota, 2009.

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Juan Camilo Villarreal 3 months ago

Rockea el corto man!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

gracias Juan Ca!!!
Chris Simon 2 months ago

Thx4sharing. Enjoyed intense story. Opening ‘chasing’ wipes cool. I also like dystopia effects of 16mm, (sometimes disconcerting with ‘hairlines’ on the screen). I luv Medina Ship. Sad story, but some good family values coming in. Beautiful music score by German Ricaurte Pineda. Congrats to you ‘n ur crew. I've saved film to my blog 'n wld be cool to get u as guest reviewer on other Vimians' work some time? vimeo.com/channels/46808#5840765
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Hey Chris, I am glad you liked Oasis Terminal, a lot of work, a lot of sweat, and a lot of love went into it. When you want me i can review at your blog. tell me when and where. Cheers.
KnowFearFilms 2 months ago

Beautiful photography, haunting score, compelling story. What a great piece of cinema!!!! Keep up the fantastic work, looking forward to seeing more.
Cheers from Canada!!!!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Thanks man, it was a very difficult proyect to make. I am glad the film is being watched all the way up in Canada, very cool. very thankful for the compliments!!!!
Jose Sanchez 2 months ago

excellent script, i remember me "total recall" but with a different message... Fernandez la pusite dura, my buen trabajo... where is columbia is this? or else...keep up the good work...

neonveloz @ NYC
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Thanks Jose, a lot of work was invested into this proyect. I am very happy people find it entertaining!
partylogger 2 months ago

Impressive !
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks man!
Hamza Koya 2 months ago

Cheers from Dubai... a bunch of us loved it.
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Thanks a lot Hamza!
marco martinez 2 months ago

buenísimo. de donde te vino la inspiración? por que si tuviera que adivinar, tiene mucho del universo Stalker y sobrela idea del oasis habia visto algo similar en una novela grafica aparecida en la revista heavy metal llamada "Rage" solo que esta fue publicada en 2008. lo unico que no me gusta tanto es la música, algo de dark ambient hubiese qeudado perfecto. como sea 5*
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

bueno realmente, mucha de la inspiración viene de cuentos de sci fi de JG Ballard que tienen que ver con mundos postapocalipticos. Stalker la vi años despues de filmar, y me hubiera encantado verla antes, junto con el ultimo combate de luc besson, que trata un tema parecido. yo pensaba inicialmente algo dark ambient, como me dijiste, pero el musico propuso, y yo acepte, realmente cualquiera de las dos funciona en mi opinion. En todo caso, muchisimas gracias por los comentarios. A ver si me voy a demandar a los de heavy metal, jejejeje.
marco martinez 2 months ago

es cierto tienes mucha razón olvidé a le dernier combat muy buena. además de la pelicula de stalker me referia al videojuego S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shadow of chernobyl, si te gustan los juegos, enserio te recomiendo jugarlo. un saludod desde mexico
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

se cual es aunque no lo he jugado. aunque siempre he tenido la curiosidad. voy a buscarlo!!!
manuelbluemel 2 months ago

A thrilling story combined with awesome pictures. Love the animations of the gunship and the explosion too.

Very good work!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks a lot, making that gunship work was a pain, but we made it though alive!
Anton Christenson 2 months ago

Nice work! The end was great =)
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks anton, really glad you liked it.
Kristian Kettner 2 months ago

Yahhh nice movie! Complete story, nicely edited and excellent graded!
Keep up the good work!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks a lot kristian, a lot of effort was put into it!!!
Cheers
Thom Spierenburg 2 months ago

thanks for putting this up,, lot of metafors for me in here...
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

very glad you liked it thom!!!
Jackson Miller 2 months ago

I liked the cinematography and editing a lot.

The story didn't quite do it for me though. I think I like a little bit more explanation and details so you don't have to fill everything in yourself.

Was that a pomegranate? Why was it in the jar?
And the girl and the guy were friends at a young age? Why did it look like she was mean to him even as children? What was with the bread?

Sorry for all the questions.
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

as you said, you have to fill in everything yourself. not very cool a movie that can´t stand by itself. I could answer all the questions you posted, but i think it would take the fun of your own personal experience with the film. the only thing i am going to say is that it was a mango, not a pomegranate, and it was in a jar because it was part of the DNA collection inside the Oasis.
Eric Jackson 2 months ago

Very awesome, keep up the good work!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks eric!!!
Fredrik Limi 2 months ago

Great film! I really liked the locations you found for your post-apocalyptic universe! Did you do a lot of location scouting, or were you lucky to find an abandoned area that looked that cool? Also, I was wondering what kind of equipment you used to edit it? Did you do it old-school, or did you import the footage digitally and edit it on FCP or Avid?
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

actually, i knew of the location since i was in high school and had always thought they would be cool to shoot a movie in. So when i wrote the script i knew i had the location to shoot in. Even though i am a fan of film origination, i believe the way to go in post is fully digital. So i made a transfer from the 16mm negative to DigiBeta, did an offline on premier, and then an online edit on Final Cut. Nowadays i have final cut pro in my computer, but back then, i still used pc.
Nik Skavinsky 2 months ago

Oh my god! This is so old-school looking and so great!
Love it.
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks Nik!!!
Vit Jurek 2 months ago

Beautiful film. Ruben in my opinion you show a spectacular deep screen of post-apocaliptic world. Only 3D secuense isn't as rest of your film. But it's only detail.
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

I know about the 3D sequence, we worked as hard as we could, but at the time i think it was the best we could come up with, with the knowledge and equipment we had.
Tomas Hache 2 months ago

Maravillosa!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

muchas gracias Tomas!!!
ritz gomez 2 months ago

This is completely engrossing, amazing storyline, and unforeseen ending. Awesome job!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Glad you liked it ritz, thanks a lot for the comment!!!
citrik 2 months ago

Incredible Film! Bravo!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

gracias citrik!!!
Vit Jurek 2 months ago

Don't understand me wrong! I know how hard work is making a movies. You do exellent film! (no less no more :))
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

no vit, no problem, i understand and believe, i know more than anybody the errors of this films!!! jejeje.

Cheers
Tyler Hughes 2 months ago

I Know imma little late from the date of creation, but spectacular piece of work. I would put this up against any over the budget film to today; of course except those with a better camera, lol =]. But absolutely great work keep it goin, wouldnt mind seein the previews for this movie one day. [hint!]
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

I am glad you liked the short film tyler!!!
hadi rockz 2 months ago

thanks for this absolutly great movie, cheers from austria.
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

glad you liked it hadi!!!
Tarkanyi Janos 2 months ago

Wow! I'm speechless...

John
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

thanks tarkanyi!!!
Tom 2 months ago

This was fantastic! So well done! Bravo!
Might I ask, how did you make your costumes?! I want to make a post apocalyptic film but am not too talented when it comes to costume design, but yours just look so gritty and awesome. Were they done on a budget, or did you have someone specially design them? And how much? Any tips on how to make cool costumes like that?

Keep up the great work. :)
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Hi Tom, well, the costumes where done on a budget, I did a lot of research first though, and I knew that the gas masks, and rubber gloves and boots where a must, you always see 'em near radioactive or chemically sensitive sites. Next, I looked at a variety of army references, and a tailor copied for us the Israeli Defense Forces bulletproof vests, just the look. For the women I always knew I wanted the whole desert Tuareg look from morocco. And the old man with the red turban is a tribute to the flemish artist Jan van Eyck. So I think the key is not so how much money you spend but how much time you invest on careful research. In all I think we probably spent around 500 dollars on all the costumes, except the masks, which where loaned to us by a chemical industry(the mask used by the main character is actually expensive, around 2000 dollars).

Hope it helps. Cheers.
Brandon Brooksby 2 months ago

Amazing music and cinematography. And the direction for the film must of been great because it looks great.

Though "the oasis" really didn't come into the story other than as motization for the main character. I wish it went on to see the oasis, or see the lack of the oasis.

But overall, great job!
Ruben Fernández 2 months ago

Thanks a lot Brandon, glad you like it!!!
NaViTo 1 month ago

Fantástico trabajo! Me ha gustado mucho. Saludos desde España.
Labrador Filmes 1 month ago

Beatiful work! Great post apocalyptic atmosphere, love those kind of things...
Any chances of a making of?
Or some advices for begginers?

Greetings from Brazil
Ruben Fernández 26 days ago

I will upload a making of video soon!!!

Cheers
Daniel Farrell 10 days ago

amazingly good! even the credits at the end where well thought out! 10/10
Ruben Fernández 10 days ago

thanks Daniel!!!