ECHO TORCH: Watch Chris Preksta's Fabulous Retro-Futurist SciFi Short Now!

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ECHO TORCH: Watch Chris Preksta's Fabulous Retro-Futurist SciFi Short Now!

It was a few years back now that we first came across the work of writer-director Chris Preksta. The occasion at the time was his fabulous retro-futurist webseries The Mercury Men and he's back now with equally fabulous short film Echo Torch.

While not a Mercury Men story this new effort appears to live in a very similar universe, one that appears to be technically now but a now as imagined by the science fiction films of the 50s. The story revolves around a man who has invented a sort of electrical torch with the ability to reveal a hidden dimension surrounding our own.

Preksta's production design here is enormously impressive, the attention to detail and craft in the hand built props really remarkable, as is the immersive sound design. But beyond all that what really impresses is his ability to carry a lengthy narrative filled with complex - and authentic - emotion entirely without dialogue. This is just a really impressive piece of filmmaking and it's available to watch in its entirety below. Check it out!

Echo Torch from Echo Torch on Vimeo.

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