Junkhead

Made by japanese film maker Takahide Hori, Junkhead is a 30 minute stop motion short film that took approximately four years to create. It was screened last November at Shibuya Uplink and later released online. The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic, steam punk-esque world where humans are no longer "alive". In this future, mankind is forced to live underground to the overwhelming contamination that is found on ground level. However, there lives an ancient virus underground that begins to decimate the human population. Humans begin to use gene recombination to make themselves immune to this virus as well as the conditions found above ground. Essentially, these humans became immortal, and were capable of exchanging bodies, or living as heads. With this immortality, also came the inability to reproduce, so in order to combat this, humans developed clones from past genetic material who were also incapable of reproducing. Over the years, clones and humans began to fight, so the clones were sent to live underground while the humans were left to live above ground. One day, the humans notice on their security cameras that a few clones were able to reproduce, so an investigation is launched underground to find if reproduction was indeed possible.

Yes, I know this story sounds confusing (It was even more confusing for me to type), but hear me out on this. I have told you guys to watch a bunch of lame movies and tv shows in the past, but if there is one thing you all should watch from my recommendations is this movie. Its extremely impressive considering that it is all done in stop motion, and the attention to detail is amazing. At times I forgot that I was actually watching dolls being moved through a man made environment. It's creepy, funny, atmospheric and super trippy. I may hold a bias on this, since stop-motions and claymations are my favorite, but watching even 15 minutes of this you realize that it is nothing like you've ever seen before. Even the language spoken in the film was created by the creator of this short. He had an IndieGoGo page where he was asking for help to create part 2 of the film, but its not up anymore. Im not too sure what happened to it. In any case, you can check out his website at this page, and watch the film at the bottom of the post.