MARK SLUTSKY'S INTERNET PLACE

"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." - H.G. I'm Mark Slutsky. I am a filmmaker (look for my feature debut YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER in 2022), Principal Writer at Compulsion Games and creator of the newsletter Something Good. This is my Vimeo channel. This is my now-defunct but still functional web project Sad YouTube. You can reach me here. Click on the links below if you want to know more.

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We have a lovely new poster by the wonderful @oharahale.

I haven’t been updating this old blog very much lately. You’ll find lots more news and views over at my newsletter.

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You Can Live Forever will have its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. More info here.

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I have a new directing reel, cut and motion-graphics-enhanced by Aidan Patterson, a former student of mine.

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ASUS and Intel commissioned me to create a short film for the rollout of their new Chromebook. You can see the campaign here!

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From “What Is My Face?”, a short documentary I made in seven days with neuroscientist Sofía Landi for the Imagine Science Film Festival.

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Final Offer by Mark Slutsky | Sci-Fi Short Film

Watch Final Offer by Mark Slutsky on Short of the Week—a Sci-Fi about Humanity in Live-Action—Canada, 11 min

A very nice review of Final Offer over at Short of the Week!

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I have a new film out! FINAL OFFER was commissioned by Gunpowder & Sky for their sci-fi channel DUST, and it features Anna Hopkins (The Expanse) and Aaron Abrams (Hannibal). Of course they were in Never Happened too. Check it out above!

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Coming next week, a new short film from me. Stay tuned.

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A while ago, my friend Chris Lavis and I shopped around a sci-fi comedy pilot script, and we made this little pitch video for it. Check it out.

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You find some stuff when you aimlessly vanity google.

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Coming soon(ish).

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I’m famous.

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NEVER HAPPENED is a Vimeo Staff Pick!

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NEVER HAPPENED, my short which played at TIFF and Tribeca, is finally viewable online, thanks to new channel DUST. Check it out.

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Never Happened by Mark Slutsky | Sci-Fi Short Film

Watch Never Happened by Mark Slutsky on Short of the Week—a Sci-Fi about Sexuality in Live-Action—Canada, 8 min

Lo-fi science fiction is a tricky proposition to pull off, but can be immensely rewarding. With an emphasis on ideas, and grounded in specificity rather than spectacle or world-building, it is a great showcase for writers. Without the overhead of an immense production, fantastic stories can be told economically, a formula perfect for low-budget shorts, and with Never Happened, Mark Slutsky cements a name for himself in this niche of science fiction. As with his previous short, The Decelerators, Slutsky marries an indie-aesthetic that is akin to Primer-era Shane Carruth, with tight, frills-free storytelling, to relate a dark speculative sci-fi that plays like a lost episode of Black Mirror.

Never Happened is now online! And delighted to see it make “Short of the Week”—check out this really nice review.

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Vampire Diary

A filmmaker’s 20-year obsession with Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep

I wrote an appreciation of Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep, an all-time favourite movie of mine, for TIFF, where it’s playing in honour of its 20th anniversary.