From.Beyond
The iterative process of discovering and understanding life, the world, the universe, science is a slow process, and cosmology is perhaps the slowest discipline of all, changes happening over the longest periods of time on scales which no human can comprehend, so when something does happen which has an immediate and measurable impact on Earth the reaction is immediate but not necessarily appropriate, no context or frame of reference having been established.
A cosmic event, a shower of rocks falling from the sky, leaves an undeniable presence on the planet, mineral forms which contain within them what is apparently living organisms, though not such as can be comprehended or described in the standard terms of terrestrial biology, any intent or purpose obscure, if indeed such terms can even be applied, leaving the field open for others to paint their own belief systems on the blank canvas of wonder or fear.
An abstract short film directed by Fredrik S Hana from a script co-written with Jamie Turville which uses the imagery and language of a scientific documentary as the strange new life From.Beyond is discovered, refusing identification or classification but so widespread it cannot be denied or ignored, it is a ubiquitous presence which, devoid of extant threat or easy avenues of exploitation, becomes accepted by the masses while remaining inexplicable.
Recalling District 9 or Monsters, at times both mildly disturbing and inspiring, From.Beyond becomes less about the alien than humanity, those so inclined seeing a figurehead, appropriately vague allowing them to assert control on its behalf, a cult superimposing a voice of authority on the silence, while an underground fringe pushes deviations of extremity, the dreamers and intellectuals mourning having been “born too late to explore the world and too early to explore the stars,” while the majority go about their humble business, unchanged.
From.Beyond is streaming on the Arrow platform now
