F.37 is a short film combining graphic design, motion graphics, and visual effects within a science-fiction narrative.
The film was produced during Get Your Own Picture, an international short-film workshop commissioned by Kultur & Art Initiative Detmold as part of the 8th International Detmold Short Film Festival in 2012. Participants from different countries formed teams to develop and produce a short film within one week.
The team consisted of Adriana Dumon, Olmo Sobrino, Alper Yıldırım, Bora Alp Arat, and Sandra Solorzano, with Francesc Olivé Gonzàlez as the actor. A prototype of the film was completed on 11 June 2012. Following the workshop, an additional post-production period was introduced to further develop the visual effects and design, with Doğa Uslu joining the project as CG artist.
Graphic Design & 2D Motion Graphics: Alper Yıldırım
3D Animation & Modelling: Doğa Uslu
Synopsis
A solitary figure inhabits a temporary base in the middle of the woods, surrounded by collected and carefully organised human objects. F.37 has arrived on Earth to observe and analyse this unfamiliar human world. Before leaving, he repairs his temporary human body and prepares for departure.
Throughout the film, the character interacts with an unfamiliar technological interface built around a system of abstract signs and symbols. The visual language was developed as an alphabet-like set of sixteen unique characters and extended across the interfaces, graphic elements, and poster design.
Rather than functioning as a readable language, the system was designed to suggest one. Thin linear forms, geometric structures, and negative space create a deliberately unfamiliar visual vocabulary, giving the technology a distinct identity without assigning fixed meanings to individual symbols.
A series of animated sequences depicts the character undergoing medical examination and treatment. The imagery combines the fictional visual language with the appearance of 1990s computer displays, creating an interface that sits between retro digital technology and an imagined non-human system.
In the final sequence, an unfamiliar structure is revealed as a spacecraft preparing for departure. Its design deliberately avoids conventional mechanical forms. At its centre is an exposed organic mass that pulses like a heart, surrounded by a geometric arrangement of spherical elements and a pyramidal structure.
The contrast between the organic core and the precise, clockwork-like movement of the exterior extends the film's broader visual tension between biological and technological forms.
