“Disk is Full”

a short film, by Whoop Wu

Currently in post-production

The world, on the brink of environmental collapse, finds its savior in an engineer — along with a trusty, sanity-preserving AI sidekick. Their mission: Suck all of that nasty, warming carbon out of the atmosphere, while the rest of humanity waits out the crisis in outer space.

Phil is a model employee. Tommy has the data to back him up. They do the thing, because that’s what they have to do.

Only, once the job is done, Phil starts to worry that the return of people on Earth again will just undo all of his and Tommy’s hard work. Tommy, meanwhile, wouldn’t mind meeting someone other than Phil. But they both wrestle with the question: Who is all of this planet saving actually for?