Video: Politically Charged Sci-Fi Short Floats UFOs Over Israel

Tuesday, 04 January 2011 00:25

Video: Politically Charged Sci-Fi Short Floats UFOs Over Israel

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Working out their own variation on the politically charged sci-fi subgenre pioneered by District 9, filmmakers David Gidali and Itay Gross inject a dark dose of civilian paranoia into an Israeli setting with their striking new short film, “Secular Quarter #3.”

Juiced up by UFOs, the visual-effects-rich clip (embedded above) pictures an alien intervention that takes place in a slightly futuristic Jerusalem ridden with walls and dome-shaped cages.

Avatar producer Jon Landau and other judges at

the Jerusalem 2111 International Animation Competition awarded the festival’s $10,000 first prize to Secular Quarter #3 director Gidali and cinematographer Gross for doing the best job of creating an “urban sci-fi vision of the city of Jerusalem” as it might look a century from now.

See other Jerusalem 2011 entries below.

“The Upper City,” by Itai Goren, depicts Jerusalem as a floating metropolis.

The satiric “Joined Together,” by Nir Philosof and Reut Bortz, takes an animated look at political rhetoric.

[via Inside the Middle East]

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