Disclaimer:
Specimen 318 is a short film that requires your attention for 26 minutes and 2 seconds. It isn't a quick piece of eye candy that you can't stop watching for some reason. Although we still appreciate the super-short form, we believe that we've already mastered it. We've been there done that, bought the t-shirt, bought the sweatshirt, bought the poster, wrote the novel, read the novel, recorded the book to tape, listened to the book on tape.
What we're trying to tell you is that we want you to watch the whole thing, enjoy it, and share it to your friends and family. And to ensure enjoyment of Specimen 318, we suggest putting yourself in a comfortable situation. Put on your favorite sweatpants, lay down or sit in an ergonomically-agreeable chair. Break out the snack chip and dips. Order your pizza or your hamburger. Get "high" if that's something you feel compelled to do. Host a screening at your house, project the film on to a large white wall and have all your guests wear different colored turtlenecks. Talk about it afterwards, if you want to. Whatever you do, enjoy Specimen 318.
Synopsis:
Doctor Dane is a fungal botanist (mycologist)* who's been sent by the Celestial Medicine Corporation to a distant star system. His mission is too find spore proteins capable of reigniting human procreation in the wake of an enormous catastrophe resulting from a sharp decline in air quality.
After repeated transmissions with his computer contact Holly 9, he learns that one of the many specimens he's already sent back to Earth has resulted in the cure for the universal impotence that was threatening to end the human race and that it was already in mass production. Ecstatic, Doctor Dane prepares for his heroic voyage back home, only to learn that the corporation that sent him away has other plans for him.
Specimen 318 premiered on May 1, 2014 at the Hideout Inn in Chicago as part of the 6th Chicago International Music and Movies Fest.
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