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