Film
Oxygen
Other titles called Oxygen: the 2017 film, the 2018 film, the 2021 film.
A ten-minute sci-fi short about an astronaut-doctor on an alien world facing impossible choices when her oxygen runs out. Claustrophobic and morally sharp, it packs the tension of a feature into a single, suffocating room. For anyone who loves speculative fiction that asks hard questions fast.
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Arrival2016
Alien contact story that prizes language and communication over spectacle. Haunting, intellectually generous, and emotionally devastating in ways you won't see coming.
But Deliberately paced and conceptual—if you need constant action or clear-cut heroics, the meditative stretches will feel slow.
Gravity2013
Pure survival cinema in the void. One woman, impossible odds, and the kind of technical filmmaking that puts you right there with her. Visceral and gripping.
But Essentially a series of crises with minimal plot or character development. Exhausting rather than nourishing for some viewers.
Solaris1972
Philosophical space drama about memory, identity, and what we owe each other. Slow-burn existential. The kind of film that stays with you for years.
But Nearly three hours of deliberate pacing. Not a thriller. Requires patience and surrender to its own logic.
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Severance2022
Both use speculative premises to ask what the body owes the system—work, survival, sacrifice—and what remains of the self when those demands become lethal.
Sci-fi thriller about corporate exploitation and bodily autonomy. Visually gorgeous, darkly comic, genuinely unsettling in its questions about what employers can demand from us.
But Takes several episodes to establish its world. Dense mythology may feel pretentious if you're not already invested in the premise.
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Moon2009
Intimate sci-fi about isolation, corporate debt, and what it means to be human. Sam Rockwell carries the whole film—a showcase for what one actor can do alone.
But Single location, single character for most of it. Not visually explosive. Hinges entirely on your willingness to sit with quietness.
The Expanse2015
Hard sci-fi that treats space as a deadly working environment. Survival, politics, and character-driven storytelling across a fully realized solar system.
But Slow first season. Dense worldbuilding means you can't half-watch. Cancelled then revived, so the narrative arc is complicated.
Prospect2018
Small-scale sci-fi western about a salvager and her father on an alien moon. Tactile, lived-in world-building and genuine moral ambiguity.
But Low budget means intimate rather than spectacular. The pacing is unhurried. Doesn't spell everything out for you.
Life2017
Creature feature on a space station. Claustrophobic, darkly clever, and genuinely unsettling in the best way.
But Familiar premises executed extremely well, but doesn't reinvent the wheel. More genre thrills than ideas.
High Life2018
Experimental, dreamlike space voyage about human bodies, reproduction, and what we carry into the void. Visually stunning, conceptually fearless.
But Deliberately oblique. Not a conventional narrative—you have to meet it halfway. Bleak and strange rather than comforting.
Cargo2009
Swedish space drama about a mission gone wrong and the terrible math of survival. Understated and human-scaled, it builds real dread from constraint.
But Quiet and introspective. Very little happens by conventional standards. Some may find it tedious rather than meditative.
The Fountain2006
Both compress enormous emotional weight into brief runtime. Both ask what sacrifice actually costs and whether survival is worth the price we pay for it.
Three interconnected timelines exploring love, death, and the price of saving what we love most. Achingly beautiful, ambitious, and willing to fail spectacularly in the name of something true.
But Difficult, emotionally demanding, visually dense. Many found it incomprehensible; others found it transcendent. There is rarely a middle ground.
People
Directing
- Rocky GrispenDirector
- Violette BelzerDirector
Writing
- Rocky GrispenWriter
Production
- Rocky GrispenProducer