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It's Family Night​​​​​​​
Dec 21, 2021

It was a Friday night, we were heading to our home in Mayhem after spending a week with my grandmother in Dolan. Nothing special, it's an 8 hours drive, I was tucked under a warm blanket and looking at the street lights passing by. My dad was careful though, it's been raining and snowing non stop and I could hear the the lady in the radio talking about the closed routes and stuff.
Everything was okay and then I asked my dad 'Can we stop for dinner please' he turned on the blinker and I remember feeling so cozy I told them to bring something for me to eat.
My mom and dad went out and when they came they were arguin, I don't know what it was but like my mom always said, everything's okay if you let it out. I guess they were letting it out at each other, guess that's what parents do. I keep telling myself everything's okay but I know it's not.
November 24th, 2029.

Subject: This is the transcript code - “0-0-2”.
They say the sun has died.
It collapsed in its own gravity.
They also say that the earth lost its orbit and we stray in the nothingness of space.
We are now digging our graves
It's been a long time, I have spent a long time here, sometimes hiding in the closet - sometimes hiding in plain sight. Food is a luxury
and warmth is seldom felt in the company of my clan.
One O' Clock Blues​​​​​​​
10th October 2021
It's a lonely kind of night
I guess I don’t mind it now. Some nights, I just feel like taking a step back and being alone.
Ever since my town disappeared, I am randomly meeting old faces. They are probably as surprised as I am.
I met Wojak through the transcripts, he’s on an M-89 server. He said he is working on a hyperdrive to connect our realms. He told me it’s possible, but there’s a catch. We might catch other fishes from the pond as well. I am running out of time right now, I’ve to go and meet him, there’s a good chance I will get back to you with more faces soon.
Keep sending me eth to help me with my journey. 
Wojak said it fuels our core. Let’s hope for the best.

It was 4 in the morning and her water broke.
She was screaming her lungs out, so we drove to the nearest hospital in Dolan. It was an hour's drive so I called our parents and relatives as well and asked them to come, this was going to be our first child so help was definitely needed.
We had gotten her tests done last week and the doctor said she was due for February so we weren't honestly expecting it to be this early.
The visibility was low, and there was snow everywhere, but I could make out the road and the signs and the barrier, everything was so hazy and quiet, I didn't see a single car all along. It was very weird.
We were doing 70 and I had my feet firm on the brake pedal, I know I was going fast but then I saw something on the road, something that came running towards us.
I am telling you, it was not human.
We flipped twice, I said to her, 'I'll go and get some help'. She wasn't there when I came back, I never saw my wife again.
That's all I remember, officer.

"I kept telling them it wasn't my fault, I wasn't the one who killed her."
The door screeched open and I see a man pointing a gun at me, he tells me that I am being taken into custody for the disappearance of my wife a couple of weeks ago. I give in, I don't want to make a scene, I am innocent and I know that for sure.
Night's Own​​​​​​​
Come on in​​​​​​​
It's 9th October 2021.

OUR KEY IS A TOKEN
I know it's certain, I think I may have tapped some kind of parallel reality.
I don't know what happened, but I am cut off from your plane of existence, we still have a common denominator and all, but a lot of things have changed.
Be with me, I'll explain it soon.
What you're seeing is a token of my message, it's the only thing that connects us with you. My reality with yours.
I told my case to Mr. Jong.
He was an associate professor of physics at Dolan University, he told me that the Large Hadron Collider in Igasara went berserk last week and opened a 'void' for a millionth of a second. His theory is simple, he says that for a millionth of a second, we touched their realm. The 4th plane, so either we stayed here or they got mixed in the bag. I will have clarity when this token gets to you, this whole thing works on eth, I need more eth to keep this going.
Stay with me guys, I’ll be back with more
Mind games​​​​​​​
23rd October 2021.

It's Saturday, I've started losing my memory.
Day by day, I am forgetting the letters of my name, the void grows deep within, it is a slow poison - but it's painless.
I will come back to you when the time comes.
24th October '21

It's Sunday, I woke up drunk and hopeless in the middle of nowhere.
It's strange, I don't remember anything except a couple of names, it's like my memory has been washed away.
"You better start giving me a hand - old man!
God, the council's got to do something about you folks" I see a tall guy walking towards me, he extends his arms and lifts me up.
"Buddy, you don't have to thank me, but you mind telling me, what the fuck were you thinking walking naked on the freeway in the middle of the night?"
I don't know what he's talking about...
"Ah, now don't act like you don't know anything." He continues.
"Where am I?" I ask him slowly. He pats my shoulder and continues, "We are in Bettor, you got to wake up before you hurt yourself, there are wanted posters on your name. Guess you found a way to blend in too well, haha. Come on I'll give your ride home! Where do you live"
I don't know...
5th November 2021

I just got back from an expedition with the tribe up north, we have set up detonators for explosives and installed some loudspeakers to set distraction from the infected.
We live in small communities of 50 families that are at war with each other when we are not busy fighting off the infected. I mean the infected come in hordes and they talk and shit to you and they can flip you off, but ever since the great winter, we have been really trying to fend ourselves off by building the electric fences, but a couple of them sneak inside every now and then. It sounds fun, but it's really not. I know 7 tribes around me who are ready to fuck us up because our side of the land is rich in electronics pre-fallout. Every other day we have to go out of our way to trade for resources with the other tribes and clans. We are gonna make it, but it's not gonna be an easy one.
13th November, 21.

I am tired Kal, I don't have a lot going on for me these days, you know how it goes, right?
I don't know if writing this down would make a difference, but sometimes I feel I could have saved our son Ryuk and the world would have been a kinder place for us. I overthink a lot and make these equations in my head - I know I am not afraid of death, but this sadness looms over my head like a constant fever and I don't know how to help myself.

You see the story with these artificials is an interesting one. We have been using robots and drone for over 20 years and in these years, they earned our trust, love, compassion and everything that comes out naturally. We observed silently and had a lot of time in our hand to ignore what was going on. They were cheap and they started getting our jobs and overnight we were left with nothing but hopelessness and anger. We started calling them Artificial, at least, in a deregaortary manner and saw them sitting in places where we had our home.
You know what we did next?
We started killing them...
We killing all of them motherfucking robots, drone and bitchass fully automatic vacuum cleaners, until it all went south and here we are. The government is run by them and they hold strong places everywhere, I am sure you'd do the same if you were in my place, you'd kill them for your rights. Killing the Artificial is not a crime because they don't feel a thing.

You have to stay with me in this.
Today is Monday, 4th Oct.
It’s been a month since my wife disappeared, I was the prime suspect in the case until, well… the whole town disappeared overnight. I live in Mina, it is a quiet and lonely town located an hour away from Dolan. It snows for 8 months and it’s easy to get lost if you’re not looking.
Today was supposed to be my hearing at the session court in the south district. I had my alarm set for 6, officer David and I often go for a run in the morning. He has been supporting my case since day one, he didn’t talk much but I knew what was going on in his mind, his brother’s been missing for about a couple of days now. We have to find out what’s going on.
Stay close.

It's my fault, I kept pushing him to drive fast, I kept playing around drunk and dazed. It's all my fault and I don't know what to do now. I kept asking for help and no one stopped, it was like I'd died with him that night. The thing is, who is to tell who's alive anyway? I am standing here asking for help and I don't know if I am dead or something died in them.
Whatever it is, I hope you make it home safe.
6th December, 2021.

Sometimes I go back to that night thinking I could have saved you and our kid and it freezes my soul that you're not there anymore and you'll never come home to me and I'll never be able to hold your hand. Something's dying inside me and no one has the cure.
Life gives a lot of pain, but tonight it hurts right here.

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