About this film
A solitary astronaut samples the water plume of Enceladus in hope of helping a dying Earth. When an ancient biological presence enters his vessel, the mission becomes a first-contact nightmare shaped by grief, memory, and the desire to return home.
Synopsis
Alone near Saturn's moon Enceladus, Commander Walker searches its water plume for a resource that could help a drying Earth. A biological anomaly enters his mission and confronts him with an intelligence older than humanity, transforming scientific hope into first-contact terror and an intimate reckoning with grief.
Themes
- grief across distance
- first contact
- human need versus cosmic scale
- contamination and transformation
- water as survival
- the desire to return home
AI Production
Confirmed tools: Seedance 2.0
Dave Clark identifies PLUME as a fully generative film made with Seedance 2.0 and describes it as his longest generative narrative to date.
Additional Credits
- Written, Directed and Edited by: Dave Clark