Meet The Metahumans - Two Clips and a Trailer

A short film featuring two extract clips and a trailer from the longer version of our film - Meet The Metahumans.

Film Synopsis:

Two Virtual Artificial Intelligence Metahumans – Cosmo And Max, are Retro-Video Games Players who Battle it Out via a Dark 1980’S Cyberpunk World, in a New Console Game Called ‘Game Over’, Traveling Throughout Levels Set In The Real World, A World Where Anything Can Go Wrong, And Does.

Can Our Heroes, Two Human Game Characters Controlled By The Ai Metahumans, Escape This Meta-Reality ? There’s Only One Way Out !

About The Film:

Meet The Metahumans – is a part Animated and Live Action Fantasy film, a satirical look at the cross divide between Humanity, Video-Gaming and Artificial Intelligence.

That’s the concept behind Meet the Metahumans – by award-winning Bristol based disabled filmmakers Sam Downie and Michael Smith.

The project was started before the pandemic, but wound up being shaped by it. Developed during lockdowns, and filmed in Bristol and London.

“When the pandemic hit and friends and family were affected by the virus and sadly passed away at young ages, we changed our vision for the film and took some time out. I got affected by the virus too, and still am. Once I was feeling well enough to continue, we did, and we changed our story. We wanted to focus on the subject of the pandemic and grief but we didn’t want to do it in the same way that other filmmakers and TV documentaries were doing at that time. We wanted to tell our story differently, so we continued with our characters, the Metahumans, and made them the egomaniacs of our satire.”

Now the human characters’ journey takes them from Bristol to London, eventually reaching the National Covid Memorial Wall.

In addition to the storyline’s novel approach to tackling the subject of grief, with the loss of family and friends, during the recent times of 2020 – 2022, the film also features original hand drawn and animated artwork by Michael Smith, and boasts authentic 1980s video game styled music score mixed as a fully immersive Dolby Atmos soundtrack by Sam Downie.

Film Note: the full film length is 39 minutes, we can send you a link to watch this, it will be released in 2024.