Iris is a night guard at a big sports club in Montevideo Bay and the cliché of the single mother struggling to make ends meet. Sure, she likes to drink and smoke some weed from time to time, but who are we to judge? Once a week she also takes her daughter Renata to work… Continue reading VIRUS-32
Genre: Science-Fiction
VESPER
Despite endless warnings by scientists and BIFFF-ers alike, all pathetic attempts to save our planet have failed. Our ecosystem has collapsed and along with it, society’s structures. Many people perished, the powerful fled to walled-in, high-tech Citadels that artificially hold up an illusion of civilization. The rest of humanity linger like wild animals in a… Continue reading VESPER
CUBE by Yasuhiko Shimizu
After CUBE, CUBE 2: HYPERCUBE and CUBE ZERO (sometimes also called CUBE3 or THE CUBIC CUBE) it got frightfully quiet in Crazy Cubetown. Has the Cube no more sides to turn? Hah! Leave it to the Japanese to take CUBE to the next level! Tinkering with the same basic ingredients of the original (six strangers… Continue reading CUBE by Yasuhiko Shimizu
WARNING
It’s 2035 and it’s nearly the end of the world as we know it. While a lonely maintenance technician (“Oh, they still send humans up there for that kind of work?”) circles off into space – without Clooney’s vodka bottle – he has a grand view on Earth as it is about to explode. And… Continue reading WARNING
KARMALINK
Cambodia in the near future. Nanotechnologies have brought about a gigantic boom in the ever-expanding capital Phnom Penh, threatening to swallow its surrounding slums whole in a gentrification frenzy. City-planners and real estate crooks swarm to these district in order to push out the poor local community. Next on their list? Young Heng Leng’s district,… Continue reading KARMALINK
BRAIN FREEZE
Welcome to Peacock Island, the peninsula where the proud peacocks of Quebec capitalism are happy to idly loaf around, a bourgeois stronghold with no intentions to mingle with the rest of the country. And there’s a new fad in town: playing golf all year long, even during harsh winter months at -30 degrees. In this… Continue reading BRAIN FREEZE
THE PASSENGER by Raúl Cerezo & Fernando González Goméz
“I am a passenger… And I ride, and I ride” – that’s exactly what Blasco, el Iggy Pop español, does and has been doing for possibly the past four decades: bringing passengers to their destination chugging along Spain’s highways at 30 mph in his trusty minivan-slash-rust bucket. And his wheels aren’t the only thing that… Continue reading THE PASSENGER by Raúl Cerezo & Fernando González Goméz
JUNK HEAD
Hooray! Mankind has achieved its ultimate goal, immortality! The distant sounds of champagne bottles cracking open in Sillicon Valley still linger, but people soon realize eternal life is – well, a bit of a snorefest. Humanity’s new anthem is not Alphaville’s “Forever Young” – which local disc-jockeys now avoid like the plague – but rather… Continue reading JUNK HEAD
