FORM
A lone pilot, navigating an obelisk-like craft across a barren world, searches for a way to unlock technology’s potential for creation rather than destruction.
Told through a sculptural sci-fi lens, FORM explores the evolving relationship between humanity, technology, and the consequences that arise when the power to build or destroy sits in our hands. The film imagines a future where innovation becomes a catalyst for life—where light signifies renewal, not ruin.
Created in collaboration with composer Jae Bordley, FORM blends design, animation, and sound into a meditative exploration of hope, invention, and the possibilities that emerge when imagination outweighs fear.
FORM is a short film that explores the tension between human innovation and the natural world. In just a blink of evolutionary time, technology has expanded our abilities in extraordinary ways—instant global communication, infinite information at our fingertips, 3D-printed objects, digital visualization of thought, breakthroughs in genetics, extended lifespans, and travel that shrinks the planet to hours.
But despite this exponential progress, humanity remains a young—and often impulsive—species. With all we know about our world and our place in the universe, the most powerful nations still channel technological brilliance into weapons, territorial conflict, wealth extraction, and political systems where a handful of leaders control decisions that shape the fate of all: climate, food, energy, and basic human rights.
FORM looks at this paradox—the beauty of our potential and the fragility of our choices—through a visual meditation on how technology and nature continuously shape, challenge, and mirror one another.
To illustrate the idea of using technology for creation rather than destruction, several visual and historical references shaped the design process—most notably the climactic moment when the FLOWER appears. Early in development, the imagery of the first atomic bomb test came to mind: a gathering of some of the most brilliant scientific minds witnessing the culmination of human knowledge, only for that power to manifest as one of the most destructive forces ever created. FORM reframes that symbolism. The traveler is also engulfed in blinding light, but instead of a nuclear blast, they witness the birth of life—an inversion of the atomic sublime, transforming devastation into creation.
TEAM
Jason Scuderi — Director / Producer / CG Artist / Animation
Jae Bordley — Music