Xenogenesis is a 1978 Canadian-American science fiction short film directed by James Cameron and Randall Frakes.
Raj (an engineered man, trained to deliver humanity from the final cataclysm) and Laurie (a woman raised by a machine, but she alone knew the power of love) are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle.
Having come across a derelict starship, belonging to an unknown people said to have been dead for fifty thousand years, Raj decides to investigate.
It was also noted that many of the themes that would appear in later Cameron movies, included a strong female character, can be first found here.
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