HENRi (2012)

  • NR
  • 09/08/2012 (US)
  • Drama, Science Fiction
  • 21m

Overview

Powerful short film, which explores human existence at the most fundamental, personal level - what it means to be a conscious individual. Set hundreds of years in the future, a derelict spacecraft, controlled and powered by a human brain, floats aimlessly in the outer reaches of space. Trapped in the cold, mechanical prison of the vessel, the brain, which has no recollection or concept of self, miraculously begins to experience disjointed images of its former life - images it cannot understand. Yearning for freedom and yet unable to move, the brain devises a plan to build itself a mechanical body from parts of the ship. Maybe then it will understand the images it is seeing - maybe then it will feel alive.

Eli Sasich

Director, Writer

Cast

Keir Dullea's headshot

Keir Dullea

Henri (voice)
Margot Kidder's headshot

Margot Kidder

Dr. Calvin
Zoe Reheem's headshot

Zoe Reheem

Henri's wife
Tobin Shyrock's headshot

Tobin Shyrock

Henri's son

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