Themes Films about computing,
Jeu,
Films about religion,
Films set in the future,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Films about video games,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Alien invasions in films,
Disaster films
Pixels is a 2010 French animated short film written and directed by Patrick Jean. It is about an invasion of New York City by classic 8-bit video game characters, such as those from Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, Arkanoid and others.
The film won the Annecy Crystal for Best Short Film at the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.Synopsis
A man walks over to a trash can, puts a 1980s-era television by it, and leaves. A few seconds go by, then the TV turns on and shows colored bars. An 8-bit picture of a bomb shows up and the simulated fuse runs out, causing the TV screen to shatter, releasing a cloud of pixels (illustrated as voxels because of the three-dimensionality of the scene). The pixels fly over to New York City and head in various directions.