OATS Studios (Season 1)

OATS Studios (2021) is Neill Blomkamp's batch of experimental sci-fi shorts you can watch online on iFILM. Every entry stands completely on its own.

There's no connecting plot — each episode boots up its own world from scratch. One is a post-apocalypse crawling with alien creatures, another a vicious satire, another straight horror. Blomkamp, the director of District 9, treated the project as a sandbox for ideas too strange for a feature: dense effects, open endings, almost no exposition.

Sigourney Weaver and Dakota Fanning turn up across the different shorts. This plays less like a series than a sketchbook of visual experiments, aimed at anyone who likes their science fiction grim and unresolved. Stream OATS Studios (2021) online on iFILM.