Alyn J. Smith

The Colonist

The Colonist (9:36) This is a short film from 2022 made by Welsh filmmaker Robert A Smith under the mentorship of Werner Herzog, as part of the Werner Herzog Film Accelerator programme. It is a drama short in which an isolated man on another world leaves a colony on the verge of collapse to wander a rocky wilderness in search of meaning.

Zero Sum Theorem

On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Adam has began to suspect something unusual about the world around him; it's all a simulation. As his sister Alice attempts to help him through his episode of poor mental health, can Adam separate paranoid delusions from reality or is there more at work than he realises.