Infinity and the Invasion of the Talking Posters is a short film about a corporation’s futuristic technique to sell products to the general public. Read the review right here.
Directed by Gideon Blackman, Infinity and the Invasion of the Talking Posters is a short take on consumerism and the length greedy corporations will go to in order to grab all your money and sell you material stuff that you don’t really need.
A man called Daniel (Alexander Nathan) leaves his house and walks to a bus stop, only to notice two new posters upon a wall; one of a male and one of a female. After staring at the female poster for a little too long, a hologram of Miss Infinity (Tania Seron) appears and introduces herself as a representative of the leading brand – Infinity.
Against Daniel’s wishes, Miss Infinity then proceeds in locating many unwanted items for him, such as new running shoes, a new carpet and a laptop. Daniel finds out he is not alone, as many of his neighbours are also walking around with a Miss Infinity hologram following closely behind.
Infinity and the Invasion of Talking Posters is a quirky little film (coming in at 6 minutes long) that pokes fun at advertisement. The concept and idea behind the short isn’t bad at all, and would fit in to a Paul Verhoeven film with no problems, after all, the Dutch director used to love adding satire into his movies. See RoboCop and Starship Troopers for examples.
The acting of Nathan and Seron was decent and the colour grading also looked pretty professional. The problem lies with the production value. According to the IMDB page, the short was made for less than £2000 and you can tell. With a film about talking posters that come to life with holographic characters, you really would need top notch visual effects, but obviously Infinity didn’t have the budget needed. So what we are left with is a woman painted silver telling people she is a hologram, instead of us figuring it out for ourselves. This is not a knock on Gideon or his crew, as they do very well with what little they had at their disposal.
Another negative would be with the description of the film being a comedy. The film is interesting and quirky, but comedy is not a descriptive I would use, as it wasn’t funny. Overall, it’s a decent little watch, but has too much ambition for a miniscule budget. Still, Gideon and his crew do show some promise and ability.
Infinity Trailer from Gideon Blackman on Vimeo.