Short film
The Rising
2012 · 13 min
A quiet, lonely drift across poisoned wastes, where routine solitude slowly gives way to unease at the hint of company.
- Directed by
- Sebastian Mattukat
- Genres
- Science fiction
- Starring
- Leander Modersohn, Christoph Drobig, Floris Asche
- Overview
- 2057. More than 25 years have passed since the incident destroyed the planet’s atmosphere. The survivors took refuge in shelters, buried deep into the ground. At surface level LE-E-003976 is gathering data and samples of the toxic environment. To this day he has never come across a single human soul on his predefined path through the bleak wastelands. But today LE-E is not alone.
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, eerie and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, survival, loneliness, exploration
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Sebastian Mattukat
- Genres
- Science fiction
- Starring
- Leander Modersohn, Christoph Drobig, Floris Asche

