The Museum of The Moving Image
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