Adaptation of a 1991 short story by Terry Bisson, that can be read here. This short won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum’s film festival.
edit: There are other adaptations:
- Directed by Jeff Frumess (2010). IMDb
- Directed by Safiyya Lea (2015). IMDb
- Directed by Jason Housecroft (2017) on Amazon Prime. IMDb
- Directed by Thomas Soper (uploaded 2018)
I have been sharing this short story for years, before the Internet I got it in a zine. Fantastic. How did I never run across this before.
I’ve been sharing this video around for a looooong time, so it’s heartening to hear that it is still finding new people who are in the target audience but haven’t seen it.
There are other adaptations that I’ll edit into my original post:
Oh thanks! Gotta check out the other ones.