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They're Made Out Of Meat (2005) ⭐ 6.9 (Comedy + Sci-fi) [Full Short] (onion.tube)

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Adaptation of a 1991 short story by Terry Bisson, that can be read here. This short won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's film festival.

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edit: There are other adaptations:

Directed by Jeff Frumess (2010). IMDb
Directed by Safiyya Lea (2015). IMDb
Directed by Jason Housecroft (2017) on Amazon Prime. IMDb
Directed by Thomas Soper (uploaded 2018)

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[–] Omnificer 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of this short film. I think it really emphasizes the dialogue of the short story via the work of the actors, including the non-speaking diners.

It's possible it loses something displaying the aliens as "meat" but I think that's shored up pretty well by the story itself.