Aliens that look like jellyfish floating in the desert

Jellyfish. Shapeless gelatinous masses lying on the shore like big spongy plastic bags, they inspire in us the same superstitious fear as the ocean depths themselves. Jellyfish are truly alien: formless and translucent, they have no head, no heart, no brain. Deep in the oceans, before any animal trod the earth, they were here. They have flourished for over 600 million years. We still know very little about these translucent blobs that cause terrible burns and serious economic problems for the fishing industry. Even though numerous naturalists, zoologists, biologists and ecologists have been studying them for two hundred years, these creatures remain a mystery. Magnificent assassins, they can kill in seconds. And they can invade in mass; when they strike, we have practically no defense. These terrifying animals have also got mysterious abilities which scientists are using to improve human health - to unlock the mysteries of cancer, aging and genetic disease.

After an alien spaceship crash-lands in the middle of the desert, the town starts to fall victim to a parasite that is spreading faster than it can be contained, turning the residents into deadly killing machines. Soon the town must fight back and face something out of this world before it.

The Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white photography of beach landscapes, objects and people – along with some drawings – to build a poetic, very textured montage, eliding the real and the surreal, the beautiful and the eerie, the spirited and the deadly. Figures and objects are isolated, linked together only by their presence on a beach, all exposed to direct or indirect threats. The different jellyfish are as much at threat – washing up dead, stranded in the desolate landscape – as they are a threat – appearing suddenly and making people vanish.

Venture into the vast, fluid realm of jellies and other ocean drifters. From the restless, sunlit surface waters to dark, cold and mysterious depths of the deep sea far below, the ocean is home to strange and wonderful creatures.

Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and people seem not to be themselves.

Aliens descend in crystal spaceships to make contact with people through guitar amp distortion and glowing animal skulls.

jelly fish!

Military footage of unknown objects traversing air and ocean suggests an Alien presence dwelling deep beneath our seas.