The Black Hole
Tags: psychedelic, dark

Plot synopsis:
Nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary Centralized").
The Palomino crew discovers a black hole in space with a spaceship nearby, somehow defying the hole's massive gravitational pull. The ship is identified as the long-lost USS Cygnus, the ship McCrae's father served aboard when it went missing. Deciding to investigate, the Palomino encounters a mysterious null gravity field surrounding the Cygnus. The Palomino becomes damaged when it drifts away from the Cygnus and into the black hole's intense gravity field, but the ship manages to move back to the Cygnus and finds itself able to dock to what initially appears to be an abandoned vessel.
The Palomino crew cautiously boards the Cygnus and soon encounters the ship's commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, a brilliant scientist. Aided by a crew of faceless, black-robed android drones and his sinister-looking robot Maximilian, Reinhardt explains that he has lived all alone on the Cygnus for years. After the ship encountered a meteor field and was disabled, he ordered the human crew to return to Earth, but Kate's father chose to remain aboard and has since died. Reinhardt then reveals that he has spent the past 20 years studying the black hole and intends to fly the Cygnus through it. Only Durant believes it is possible and asks to accompany Reinhardt on the trip.
The rest of the Palomino crew grows suspicious of the faceless drones' human-like behavior: Booth sees a robot limping and Holland witnesses a robot funeral and discovers the Cygnus crew's personal items in the ship's living quarters. Old B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), a battered early model robot similar to V.I.N.CENT, explains that the faceless drones are in fact the human crew, who mutinied when Reinhardt refused to return to Earth and had been lobotomized and "reprogrammed" by Reinhardt to serve him. McCrae's father had led the mutiny and was killed. Using telepathy, V.I.N.CENT tells Kate the truth about what happened. When Kate tells Durant, he removes the reflective faceplate from a "drone" to reveal the zombie-like face of a crew member. Appalled, Durant tries to flee the bridge with Kate, but Maximilian kills him. Reinhardt takes Kate prisoner, ordering his sentry robots to take her to the ship's hospital bay to be lobotomized.
Just as the process begins, Holland rescues Kate, along with V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B. Meanwhile, fearing the situation is escalating dangerously, Booth attempts to escape alone in the Palomino. Reinhardt orders the craft shot down, but the weapons fire sends the ship crashing into the Cygnus, destroying its port-side anti-gravity forcefield generator. A meteor storm then destroys the starboard generator. Without its null-gravity bubble, the Cygnus starts to break apart under the black hole's huge gravitational forces.
Reinhardt and the Palomino survivors separately plan their escape aboard a small probe ship used to study the black hole. Reinhardt orders Maximilian to go and prepare the probe ship, but then a large viewscreen falls on Reinhardt, pinning him down. His lobotomized crew stand motionless as he struggles helplessly. Maximilian confronts the others and fatally damages B.O.B. moments before he himself is damaged by V.I.N.CENT and drifts lifelessly out of the broken ship into the black hole. Holland, Pizer, McCrae and V.I.N.CENT reach the probe ship and launch, only to discover the controls locked onto a flightpath that takes them into the black hole.
In a surreal sequence inside the black hole which resembles Heaven and Hell, Reinhardt becomes merged with Maximilian in a burning, hellish landscape populated by dark robed spectres resembling the Cygnus drones. Next, a floating, angelic figure with long flowing hair passes through a cathedral-like arched crystal tunnel. The probe ship carrying Holland, Pizer, McCrae and V.I.N.CENT then emerges from a white hole and is last seen flying through space towards a planet near a bright star.

Review: A Short and Deep Tale of Greed.
While working after hours copying documents, the bored clerk kicks and punches the buttons of the photocopy machine when it jams.
The photocopier releases a piece of paper with a black circle in the center, and when the clerk puts his cup of coffee on the spot, he discovers that it is indeed a black hole.
The clerk uses the black hole to get a chocolate bar from a vending machine.
Then the greedy employee decides to use the black hole to open the door of a room with a safe and steal the money from inside.
However, he does not reach the wads of notes on the bottom and enters in the safe to take all the money out with tragic consequences."The Black Hole" is a short and deep tale of greed of human nature.
It is impressive how the writers and directors Philip Sansom and Olly Williams were able to make a short of less than 3 minutes running time without any line and succeed in transmitting one of the seven deadly sins ( "Avaritia") so perfectly and with right dose of humor.
My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): Not Available.
Human Greed.
This movie is only three minutes long, but it is enough to describe man's greediness.
I thought once again if you could get anything, you would continue to want.
A man is working in the office late at night and he has to copy many pieces of paper.
A black hole is printed on one of them.
He finds that he can get something through it.
Then he decides to use that black hole to get the bills in the safe.
The story is simple and very easy to understand.
Even so, the messages are certainly in it.
Also, it is just funny.
When I finished watching this short, I felt it is bad thing to want too much.
However, if I were in the similar situation, I would do the same thing..
Not amazing perhaps but punchy, well developed and well delivered.
Silently and in three minutes this little short film delivers a single punch-line that is an end to the tale and it does it is a very enjoyable way.
An office worker is busy doing pointless photocopying late at night and is clearly tired and fed up with the whole affair.
When the copier produces a piece of paper with a black circle on it he finds that it somehow creates a void in any object he puts it against.
So taking a chocolate bar out of the vending machine by creating a void in the glass is a given, but it takes mere seconds for his ambitions to be greater.A simple morality tale this one but well delivered as a contained idea – get in, get out and satisfy the audience with the slightest of offerings.
There is no dialogue here but it still works because the idea is simple and delivered well.
I laughed at the end, although it did have a certain dramatic edge to it as well.
A very simple short film but the idea is quickly developed and delivered which made it surprisingly satisfying and punchy..
Arabian fairy tale.
A special gift.
to a bored clerk.
the too many posibilities to use it.
and, the error as result of deep sin.
modern in every aspect, it reminds the old Arabian Nights.
for the moral, for the character who is transformed, step by step, by his discover, for the end who reminds the limit of the bocke by reality.
a film about greed, at the first sigh.
in fact, only the subtle question "what you do if..." is the basic source of seduction and challenge for the viewer..
Alone in the office.
Today we have a shortfilm called "The Black Hole", released in 2008 but I descovered it only one month ago.
Everything happens inside an office during the night.
The directors and writers of the short (Phil Sansom and Olly Williams) chose Napolen Ryan as the only character of the film, and it's wonderful to see how his face expresses all his thoughts.
At this sci-fi story a worker makes photocopies at the machine but suddenly something happens, something weird.
At the begining only a dull thing but at the end it becomes amazing and exciting.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a great exercise to make a shortfilm when you are a cinema student because you need to create a completely meaningful creation in only three or five minutes.
"The Black Hole" is a film that everybody must watch because it is very short and really thrilling.
You want to play it again and again and maybe you will feel a little bit scared at the end..
Believable, to an extent, and well done.
The Black Hole is a short comedy, thriller, crime short film by Philip Samson and Olly Williams, released in 2008.
When a sleep deprived office worker accidentally photocopies a black hole late one night, the possibilities suddenly seem endless.
But will greed get the better of him?This was a really well done short film.
With simply no dialogue, and an obvious route when it gets there, this is a film about morality, with a simple meaning behind it.
Normally, I would be annoyed by a film like this – it goes about it in quite an obvious way, with no other way it could go, but Samson and Williams did this really well.
It was paced, fast paced, but paced out so that it didn't go on for too long.
The acting in this was really well done; I'm amazed at just how well Napoleon Ryan did in this short film.
He did really well, and he really played the part of a greed stricken man very well.
It was really not hard to believe this was just another greedy office worker in the world, and it wasn't hard to believe he was real.
This had a humorous ending and was really well done.
Kudos to Samson and Williams.
I will definitely be looking for more from them..
The lengths a bored office worker will go to....
Saw this a while back, it's a simple story with a nice little twist at the end.
We follow this office worker who discovers a literal black hole on a print out.
He tests it out until a light bulb goes off and he considers the office safe.
Greed takes over and our hero gets trapped.
Nicely shot and atmospheric..
A joke of a movie.
And I do not mean this in any negative way.
To me, this little film felt like a joke that you tell somebody with a punchline in the end and everything before that leads to this ending.
"The Black Hole" is a 2.5-minute short film from sever years ago written and directed by Philip Sansom and Olly Williams.
A man realizes that the document he just printed works as a black hole, so he can grab some sweets for free, but he gets greedier and greedier and his next target is the company's safe.
He goes for it and it seems like a success, but only until his greed gets the best of him and he decides to pretty much climb into the safe.
Bed decision here.
Unfortunately, the two filmmakers have not managed to build a feature film career on the Youtube success of this little movie here.
The lead actor at least appeared in minor roles in famous films such as "The Master".
Good watch here and I recommend.
Certainly worth 2-3 minutes of your time.