At the end of May, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his new project, Oats Studios, which would focus on experimental short films with a view to them potentially getting developed into full features.
The studio was announced along with a trailer and several others have followed since.
Now the first full short film from the studio has been posted online. Directed by Blomkamp and starring Sigourney Weaver, the story is set in the aftermath of an alien invasion. The year is 2020, and aliens have enslaved humanity, and altered the Earth’s atmosphere.
Rakka isn’t a conventional short film. Instead, it’s a series of scenes depicting various points of view. Some scenes show what the aliens are doing to humanity; others track a resistance movement led by Sigourney Weaver, and an escaped prisoner named Amir.
