LO-FI SCI-FI

LO-FI SCI-FI

I am a massive Science Fiction fan. No, I have never really got into Star Trek, Battlestar Galatica or even Doctor Who, among other generic scifi gubbins, but I've always had a love for the imagination and magic behind it. Ever since i was a kid I loved reading scifi books and watching the films, Star Wars and the like, ect, ect. Blah Blah. For me, I tend to just love certain aspects of things, but with this specific genre, I love it all.




Anyway, the purpose of this post is to talk about Low-Budget Sci-Fi films. I am thinking about this currently because I have just purchased the dvd Monsters (2010) a low-budget movie made last year. There was some hype surrounding its release because alot of it was said to be made pretty much 'out of the back of a van'. I'm super excited to see this and, typically, I love monster movies but something tells me this might be different.

I also wanna talk about Moon (2009) which is one of my favourite sci-fi movies ever. It imagery has such a stillness and eerie flair about it that just makes me think of 2001: Space Odyssey and the original Solaris. Everything in this film seems to be masterfully designed, from the clinical-feeling set to the truly epic and inspiring soundtrack. Also made on a relatively low budget, Moon didn't rely on the laser-zapping, space-swashbuckling conventions of alot of modern scifi, but instead displayed a story of human emotion and capitalism gone crazy.

Also, District 9, another Sci-fi on a small budget(ish) was adapted from a short film by the same director. This was a whole new spin on Hollywood-style sci-fi and was in a frankly unfamiliar setting of Johannesburg, South Africa. Now, District 9 had alot of outside help from American corporate shiz but it still had a homegrown feeling, it felt like something new. Another sci-fi, Pumzi, also recently came out of Africa. I haven't seen this yet but, from the trailer, it looks pretty frickin' cool, I hope more Africans start making Science-Fiction.