The Museum of The Moving Image

Awards Ceremony

The Museum of The Moving Image

36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106

A Feature Presentation:

Alone Together

5 pm-7 pm 

Alone Together 

Director William Kresch 

Producer Eric Reitz 

US, 94 minutes 

After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and emotionally abused woman and her volatile boyfriend are forced to face the vengeful spirit that haunts it—and each other.

Q@A with the director and producer after the screening

The Museum of the Moving Image

36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106

Feature Presentation:

Quantum Suicide

3 pm- 5 pm

Director Gerrit Van Woudenberg  

Starring Andrew Rogerson, Kate Totten, Kennedy Montano

Canada 87 min 

A reclusive physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality. In the process of his research, he suffers radiation poisoning, loses his vision, and alienates his partner, who eventually leaves him. But in his obsession he finds clarity and the keys to understanding our reality. There is one final test he must perform.. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

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36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106

Short FIlm Block- Humanity Prevails

1 pm- 3 pm

Suppressus 

Director Grant Jones 

United States 19 min 

Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia. 

Q@A with director after the screening

Reverie 

Director Kelli Elizabeth Horan 

United States 11 min 

In a future where time travel is used as a form of therapy, Imogen grapples with the weight of her troubled past and is allowed to revisit her younger self and confront the experiences that shaped her present self. 

Q@A with director after the screening

First Time Machine 

Director Jay Woelfel 

United States, 18 min  

African American scientist, Dr. Grainger gathers his closest friends to show them his invention: the world’s first-time machine. However, one of his friends has hidden and dangerous intentions for traveling back in time. An adaptation of the classic sci-fi short story by Fredric Brown. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

Demon Box

Director Sean Wainsteim

Canada, 14 min

A director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt, and funny dissection of the film and his life.

Q@A with the director after the screening

Human Resources

Director Jay Ness

United States, 10 min

A human resources professional must teach a timid new hire how to perform empathy. As she instructs him through a series of social behaviors, they form an unlikely connection.

Q@A with the director after the screening

Autopilot 

Director Jennifer Zhang 

US, 17 min 

A lone pilot on a homebound space vessel finds herself trapped in a waking nightmare when her holographic “virtual companion” begins to defy his own programming.

Q@A with the director after the screening

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The Redstone Theater

Feature Presentation:

Creep Box

6 pm-8 pm

CREEP BOX

Director Patrick Biesemans

United States, 95 min

A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.

Starring Geoffery Cantor (Daredevil, Foundation), Sean Mahon (The Cursed, Red Rock), and Adam David Thompson (Here Alone, The Thing About Pam). Written and Directed by Patrick Biesemans.

With a Q&A with Director Patrick Biesemans and Producer Noah Lang. 

The Museum of The Moving Image

36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106

Documentary and Short Film Science Fiction Block

The Redstone Theater

4 pm 6 pm

Chaska Trailer (trailer) 

Director Liz Guarracino 

United States, 2 min 

How would you feel if you found out the US Government created LINEAGE INDUSTRIES to catch a single being?

Time Sentinel ( Trailer)

Director Aldo Romero

US, 2 minutes

"An ex-marine suffering from PTSD believes he becomes a time-traveling superhero when he dreams."

SHORT DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION

Is Not Up to Us 

Director Anthony Werhun 

US, 13 min 

Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth behind Nancy's beliefs and how they shaped her career evokes questions about the nature of creation and of reality itself. 

Q@A with Nancy Burson after the screening

Tales From the Far Side of Reality 

Purgy's 

Director Robbie Bryan 

United States,17 min  

At a magical bar, spirits from the other side can take the form of another human and interact with those in their past who need closure and re-connection. 

Starring Arnold Chun ( Man in the High Castle)

Q@A with Arnold Chun, Robbie Ryan, and Producer Spero Stamboulis

The Fisherman's Wife 

Director Jared Watson 

United States, 9 min 

A fisherman struggles to sustain himself and his daughter. His net catches only plastic refuse and animal carcasses. One bleak morning, after another failed fishing expedition, the fisherman makes a surprise discovery: a mermaid, washed ashore. She’s tangled in a net, terrified, and struggling to breathe. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

Soulmate 

Director Richard Fenwick 

United Kingdom 15 min 

Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.

Q@A with the director after the screening

Buffering...Please Wait 

Director Samantha Cheryl Lai 

Canada 14 min 

A nameless woman confronts the memory device embedded inside her brain, in search of a loss identity. The truth, however, bears too much weight. Whatever she uncovers, continues to weigh her down, time and time again

Q@A with the director after the screening

The Unquiet Dead 

Director John Gray 

United States 12 min 

A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits who are demanding something from her.  

Q@A with the director after the screening

Lift Me Up 

Director Daniel Corey 

US, 4 min 
 Set in a futuristic Blade Runner Universe, "Lift Me Up" is a music video that gives the listener a feel that blends the aura of Paul Simon with the rustic Americana of Bruce Hornsby and the raise-the-roof anthems of U2

Q@A with the director after the screening

Anatomy of a Feature-Winning Script

Saturday, April 6

Fox Amphitheater @ MOMI

Join noted author Paul Levinson as he moderates the talk on writing a perfect screenplay taking place on Saturday, April 6 at 240pm at The Fox Amphitheater. Paul will introduce his new book “Its A Real Life , An Alternative History of the Beatles” and speak with the screenwriter semifinalists of the PKD Festival about their approaches to writing a winning screenplay. The ins and outs of putting that idea to paper and making it happen

Paul Levinson, PhD, is a Professor at Fordham University. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, and Borrowed Tides. His most recent book " It's Real Life An Alternative History of the Beatles" is now hitting the bookstores

Talks are Free to All Momi Ticket Holders

PKD Industry Talks is a series of short, informative, and entertaining talks on the current state of the film industry. In this year’s festival, we proudly present two industry leaders; Carylanna Taylor, director of Acquisitions at the Film Sales Company, and Spero Stamboulis, Acquisition Executive at Stone Cutter Media.

A festival favorite, Spero’s talk “Film Distribution Through The Eyes of A Filmmaker” focuses on the "true" mechanics of independent film distribution.  The realities of the deal are "not" on paper.  How to evaluate a distributor or sales age,  What it takes to make and distribute a film in today’s market.

Carylanna’s talk “ Welcome to the New World of Distribution” focuses on the do’s and don’ts of securing a distribution deal. Classic mistakes many filmmakers make and how to secure the best deal for your film

Talks are free to all guests and MOMI ticket holders.

The Museum of The Moving Image

36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106

Best of Philip K Dick Science Fiction Shorts

6 pm-8 pm

Homologies 

Director Bryerly Long  

Writer/ Co-producer Tatiana Blackington James

United States, 12 min 

In the near future, parents who have paid to genetically enhance their children wonder if they have made a terrible mistake.

Q@A with writer/producer Tatiana Blackington James after the screening

How Soon Is Now? 

Director Mia Holly Kim 

US, 18 min  

A grieving software engineer spends his days perfecting a deep-learning artificial intelligence, intending to become the first AI CEO of a major corporation. While Nick strives to turn off his own emotions, he begins to get pulled into the heartbreak of an anonymous co-worker which challenges his beliefs about the nature of love. 

Q@A with the director Mia Kim, DP Luke Geissbuher, and lead/producer Keon Alexander (Quantum Leap and The Expanse)

A Passage 

Director A.P. Bergeron 

Canada, 7 min 

A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

Half Samurai 

Director Rashad Haughton 

Japan, 11 min 

A mysterious drifter wanders into a bar owned by a psychopathic yakuza gang on Halloween night. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

Is This All A Dream? 

Director Logan Fry 

United States, 7 min 

A series of dreams, and dream fragments, as interpreted by Max Headroom and William Shakespeare. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

Skin Job 

Director Steve Simmons 

United Kingdom, 15 min 

A group of slave Androids steal a space shuttle and journey back to Earth to find their maker. 

Useless Eater 

Director Ian Haig 

Australia,, 2 minutes 

Mutated hackable bodies, bodies that didn’t quite work out and bodies that can no longer be classified as bodies. Drawing on the transhumanist musings of Yuval Noah Harari…. Humans are now hackable animals. 

Crazy These Days

Director Tara Karsian

Writer, Producer, Lead - Virginia Reece

United States, 13 minutes

Weird things keep happening while Elise is alone, so when her husband, Derek, returns unexpectedly from a business trip to surprise her, it has the opposite effect. It only raises more questions to her mounting suspicions.

Q@A with writer, producer, and actor Virginia Reece after the screening

You're Not Allowed to Leave the Room 

Director G. Gotham Smith 

Voice Actor- Madeline Egan Addis.

United States, 6 min 

A man is not allowed to leave a room. 

Q@A with the director after the screening

THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

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International Sc-Fi Shorts

4 pm- 6 pm

Burner Face 

Director John Gaunt 

US, 2 minutes 

Composed by a team of 3 creatives + Midjourney AI, this trailer tells a story in less than 2 minutes. It is not a tech demo but a taste of what's possible when Culture & Code come together. 

City beyond the tunnel (La città oltre il tunnel) 

Director Lucilla Colonna 

Italy, 15 min 

A train very similar to the one featured in Federico Fellini's movie "City of Women" is carrying Francesca, a nowadays woman. Strange events follow. 

Q@A with director after the screening

Set a Date 

Directors Elías Balda, Cosme Mañero 

Spain,11 min 

Thanks to new technology, Andrés, a young policeman, discovers that he will die in 20 minutes. 

Not Him 

Director Sarah Young 

United States, 15 min 

When her husband turns strange and violent, the wife becomes convinced he is possessed. But will anyone believe her? 

Q@A with director after the screening

Suicide III 

Director Steph Maj Swanson 

Sweden, 9 min 

President Biden announces a new task force of bird-like federal augurs, directing them to stage a shamanistic intervention at the world's largest hacker event. Can they protect the sovereignty of the future from time-meddling AI corporations? 

Q@A with director after the screening

Chaska 

Director Liz Guarracino 

United States, 10 min 
“An extraordinary girl in an ordinary world, CHASKA discovers her sleepy small town hides secrets. And she will soon find out who she really is. And where she comes from. And what her true purpose will be.”

Q@A with the director after the screening

The Old Young Crow 

Director Liam LoPinto 

Japan, 12 minutes 

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo. 

Q@A with director after the screening

Matthew Modine's I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE 

Director Matthew Modine 

United States, 7 min 

Matthew Modine’s new short film, I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE, is a sensual exploration of the unexplainable. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Modine and long-time Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali (in his final performance), the short uses sound, music, and expressionistic imagery to take viewers on a journey of the heart and mind

Q&A with director/writer Matthew Modine, producer Adam Rackoff, and editor/visual effects artist Terence Ziegler after the screening.