Setting the film in what is essentially one location means it can be easily passed off as a higher concept film. She does an enormous amount of the heavy lifting (playing against only the voice of Steven Cree), and her character goes through a pretty substantial arc throughout the film.

Sackhoff is a compelling lead, more than capable of keeping the audience engaged throughout. Restricting most of the action in the film to one room gives 2036 a unique angle and it’s one that really works for the most part. source: Gravitas VenturesĢ036: Origin Unknown is at its best when it’s only Mack and A.R.T.I., confined to one room, acting out something akin to a bottle episode of a sci-fi television series. Credit to Sackhoff, the memory of Starbuck quickly fades as she makes the far more subdued, yet still headstrong character of Mack come alive. Of course, it’s hard not to see Katee Sackhoff in her stand-out role as Starbuck ( Battlestar Galactica), especially in a film which has her sat at a control panel, commanding a space mission. are tasked with a recon mission, but they find something more than Mack ever bargained on. taking the lead with these types of missions. After an initial sequence depicting a previous Mars mission gone terribly wrong, it’s explained that there are now very few human supervisors in favour of A.I. As such, she spends almost the entirety of Dulull’s 90 minute film completely alone in the control room with only A.R.T.I. Katee Sackhoff stars as Mack, a scientist supervising a remote mission to Mars via FTL communications. This is before even discussing the narrative of Hasraf Dulull’s sci-fi feature 2036: Origin Unknown, a film which hinges around the concept of artificial intelligence, humanity and whether the two will ever be able to make it work. If a film includes its own monolithic mysterious black object and not just one but two ‘star-gate’ style sequences, then comparisons to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey will inevitably follow.

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