Alive in Joburg - Alien encounter short film (QT mov)

Very cool looking, the intergration of the CG/live action footage is top notch.

From Neill Blomkamp, the director of the Citroën Transformer ad, comes an unsettling and eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg, South Africa. Watch Alive in Joburg (rather large quicktime file) for some great special effects. The discrimination of visitors from another world makes for an interesting allusion to Apartheid, and something like this is what War of the Worlds should have been like.

UPDATE 2: The film is now at archive.org, where bandwidth won’t be a problem! Enjoy!!

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