Check out this cool Sci-Fi short film from 25 year-old Norwegian film student, Stian Hafstad. A recent assignment in Stian’s directing class required that they film a scene that was one continuous shot, without any dialogue. He says that he usually doesn’t post his assignments online because they’re either uninteresting, or they’re not self contained pieces, and don’t work outside of class context.

Since his latest assignment, what he calls a “Science Fiction Thriller thingy” entitled, A Way Out was both interesting and self-contained, he put it up on youtube for the world to see. Check it out below!

A Way Out – Science Fiction Short

For all you film students and/or Indie filmmakers that want to know, Stian shot the movie in his dorm room using a Canon T2i with the Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 lens. He used three 300 watt lights, Blue gels. For the space-time-rift in the cabinet, he used one light, and then used After Effects with the Optical Flares plugin from Videocopilot to add the space-time-rift effect.

Keep up with Stian on his blog, or check out his youtube channel.