5002 Space Aliens by Scott Bateman lands on your favorite streaming platforms beginning Monday, August 10, 2026!
The highly anticipated experimental animated feature will be available on Amazon, Apple, and Google/YouTube.
About the Film
Written, directed, animated, edited, and scored by Scott Bateman (with producing support from Lucas A. Ferrara), 5002 Space Aliens is the wild sequel to the 2021 cult hit 5000 Space Aliens.
This non-narrative, dialogue-free experience presents the “only known footage” of 5,002 space aliens currently on Earth—each revealed in a single, hypnotic one-second shot. Created through digital rotoscope animation of manipulated found footage, vintage photographs, and other source materials, the roughly 87-minute film delivers a surreal, mesmerizing, and hilariously unhinged visual ride set to Bateman’s original score. Runtime is approximately 85–87 minutes; (Not Rated).
Viewers are advised (with tongue firmly in cheek) to don anti-alien glasses.
411 Mania Review
Bryan Kristopowitz of 411 Mania awarded 5002 Space Aliens a perfect 10.0 / Virtually Perfect, praising it as “one of the strangest animated movies I think I’ve ever seen.”
He continued: “5002 Space Aliens exists, and the world we live in is a better place for it.” Kristopowitz further described the film as “a fascinating, strange, and weird as hell animated movie experience. It is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s fun, too!”
The review highlights the film’s unique non-narrative style and hypnotic one-second-shot rhythm, calling the overall experience both brilliant and unlike anything else in contemporary animation.
About Scott Bateman
Scott Bateman is an American filmmaker, animator, cartoonist, and author known for his experimental, absurdist independent cinema. A University of Puget Sound graduate (1986), he began as a political cartoonist and later became a fixture in New York’s alt-comedy and indie film scenes.
His credits include the features 5000 Space Aliens (2021), The Bateman Lectures on Depression (2020), and You, Your Brain, & You (2019), the short 600 Space Aliens (2016), and Atom Age Vampire (2009). He has also written the satirical book Disalmanac: A Book of Fact-Like Facts and created work for IFC, MTV, and major newspapers. Bateman single-handedly crafted nearly every aspect of 5002 Space Aliens over roughly four years of full-time work. He currently lives in Beacon, New York.
Mark your calendars—August 10, 2026—and prepare for the invasion.
Available streaming services: Amazon, Apple, and Google/YouTube.
Resistance is futile… but five-star reviews would be greatly appreciated.