![]() Here, there was a moment that completely threw me out of my immersion in the masterfully crafted setting, Kio’s clean, well-kept leather shoes. We see a wall plastered with missing persons posters (fun fact, filled with faces of people who Kickstarted the project), then immediately after a long line at a police checkpoint trying to enter what seems to be a marketplace beyond a wall, in what is an apocalyptic London. Between scenes of derelict buildings filled with antiquated technology, we see thriving elephant plowed fields of rolling green, something that feels straight out of biopunk classic novel The Windup Girl. The world is obviously post-apocalyptic, but it is recovering. If there is one thing that can be said about B iopunk, above all others, it is that the film does a fantastic job of visual world building on par with the recent Blade Runner 2049 shorts. A terrorist preacher suicide bombs Bob’s shop, impacting Resha and Kio, and likely killing Bob who tries to stop him, before Kio is spirited away by who we can only assume are ‘The Spring,’ a resistance movement – coming as no surprise to anyone who lived through 2011 and was conscious. On their journey, we are exposed to some excellent world-building, which will discuss more in a moment, but the story really comes to a head in its last minutes. The plot of this short film follows Resha and her little brother, Kio, as they pass through this dystopic apocalypse so that Resha can get to work at Bob’s (Kristian Nairn or Hodor) gadget shop. A totalitarian police state, with heavy police militarization, that has risen from a world devastated by a virus and created an oppressed people. We are then introduced, through the background, to the punk side of everything. The film opens with a series of dirty post-apocalyptic scenes that show us the kind of world that our characters inhabit, and in it, you can see the gritty, dirt in the corners, future of Gibson. ![]() If you aren’t already aware, I don’t like to differentiate biopunk as a genre from the science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk, as biopunk elements have been a big part of the cyberpunk landscape from the very beginning. Needless to say, the name itself immediately grabbed my attention. Biopunk is a short film that was released in early 2017 from director Liam Garvo and Dresden Pictures and stars Katie Sheridan and Kristian Nairn (Hodor from Game of Thrones).
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