We are excited to announce that Stanislaw Petruk’s post-apocalyptic tale The Remnants won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Milan Machinima Festival MMXXIII
This year’s jurors, Simonetta Fadda, Stefano Locati, Jenna NG, Marco de Mutiis, and Henry Lowood, gave Stanislaw Petruk’s The Remnants the highest score of all the submitted works, just below Nicolas Gebbe’s The Sunset Special, which was not considered for the award as it exceeded the 10' limit.
Petruk’s work captured the zeitgeist as the world is quickly approaching environmental, social, and geopolitical collapse. In a sense, the jurors felt that this short story prefigures the most likely outcome of the planet’s fate considering the criminal negligence of our political leaders and the indifference of the masses to the challenges that we face today.
Petruk’s video, entirely created with the Unreal Engine, is set five years after a global disaster, where the remaining population is struggling to survive as the planet is dying. This intense machinima portrays the struggle for survival and the harsh reality of human nature in a post-apocalyptic world.
The Remnants was screened yesterday at the Museum of Interactive Cinema as part of the Utopia/Dystopia program and is now available on this very page.
Born in 1987, Stanisław Petruk is a filmmaker and Sr. VFX artist at Avalanche Studios in Sweden. He has directed several shorts and worked on video games such as WWE Immortals, Mortal Kombat, Agents of Mayhem, The Walking Dead, and Saints Row. He lives and works in Stockholm. Petruk is now working on his new project, The Goo.
Matteo Bittanti
