Paranoia: 1.0 (also known as One Point O) is a science fiction film written and directed by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson. The film is a Kafkaesque nightmare in which a young computer programmer is an unwitting guinea pig in an corporate experiment. The film stars Jeremy Sisto and Deborah Unger and features Lance Hendrikson, Eugene Byrd, Bruce Payne and Udo Kier.

Project London is a promising looking indie film under production that is employing the volunteer talents of visual effects producers from around the internet using open-source software with eye-popping results. The home grown film includes the acting talents of Jen Page, a multi-talented geek girl (is it time for a feminine form of the word geek yet?) who has also appeared in the hilarious indie film The Gamers:Dorkness Rising. If you’ve never seen Dorkness Rising, I encourage you to chase down a copy on Netflix or elsewhere and check it out, especially if you’ve actually used a twenty-sided dice at some point in your sordid past.

Look for more of Project London later this year.

Here’s an oddball humorous short that offers a glimpse into the life of an interstellar cab driver. It would probably benefit from subtitles for those of us on the wrong side of the pond, especially for the punchline, which I found impossible to discern despite years of watching old Dr. Who episodes, but it’s a clever little no-budget effort and worth a look.