FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 2022

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE

THE REDSTONE THEATER


6 PM-8 PM

FUTURE SHOCK

NICE SHOES

Director Jonathan Lawrence

US, 3 min

A sci-fi extravaganza that is as pointless as the lyrics. Over 40 classic movie references are featured in this epic music video

TELLURIAN-Trailer,2022

Director Graeme Carr

UK, 2 min

15 years after an Alien invasion destroyed earth's government and decimated the population, resistance fighter Mike Walsh and his team of soldiers are tasked with protecting the last child on Earth from falling into the wrong hands.

MEGAVILLE AFTER HOURS, 2022

Directors Tim Cürlis, Christian Skibinski

Germany, 14 min

On a restless night in the cyberpunk city "Megaville" a disillusioned ranger encounters a washed-up chef called Jack. They reach an agreement and a culinary duel to the death follows. A lethal supper that only one of them will survive.

A MIND CANNOT TOUCH, 2022

Director Geoffrey Prather

US, 15 min

A Mind Cannot Touch is a sci-fi drama about a mother, LEDA, who uses her expertise in neuroscience to bring her deceased daughter, AIRLIA, back from the grave as a sentient hologram—complete with Airlia's memories and consciousness via mind uploading.

AFRO-ALGORITHMS

Director Anatola Araba

US, 15 min.

In the distant future, an artificial intelligence named Aero is inaugurated as the world’s first AI leader. However, she soon finds that important worldviews are missing from her databank, including the stories of the historically marginalized and oppressed.

Featuring a slate of well-known Black actors who lend their voices to the film, including Robin Quivers, Ava Raiin, and Hoji Fortuna



ESCALATION, 2022

Director Christian Bachini

Italy, 15 min

In the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chris, a paranoid and self-centered man, is happily avoiding all human contact, preferring to escape from reality in whatever's on TV. When a friend reaches out to him to confront him about his past promises, Chris has to decide what kind of person he is inside, or it may just eat him...alive.

ECHOES

Director Anthony Kalmeta

US, 14 min

A dark mystery puzzle-drama. Trapped within a distortion of time, unraveling his fragmented memories, a man comes into contact with a woman living in real time who reveals the truth about him

MOTHERLORD, 2022

Director Sebastien Landry

Canada, 9 min

An alien, borrowing the body of a human mother-to-be, is confronted by fear and uncertainty as its offspring grows inside her.

NEOSHIN EPISODE 01:COLD BLOOD, 2022

Directors Sebastian Selg, Ramon Schauer

Germany, 5 min

After the invention of CRYONIC REALITY (CR) by the EDEN Association, world leaders chose to discontinue the counting of time in 2073 and proclaimed the final year 2073X.CR is a virtual world of utopia that people can access to escape the bleak reality. When influencer AYUKO heads to a concert of her favorite band NEOSHIN in CR, she has no idea that a virtual virus will change her life forever

8 PM-10 PM

A SEPARATE REALITY

CHASKA-Trailer,2022

Director Liz Guarracino

US, 2 min

How would you feel if you found out the US Government created ancestry.com to catch a single being?

LAST ORDERS TRAILER
Director Jason Housecroft
in Best Trailer
United Kingdom,2 min

A trailer for Baobab's first feature "Last Orders". Two characters are lost in a landscape search for memory and meaning.

ORIGIN STORY, 2022

Director Robert Cummins

US, 3 minutes

In a military controlled, post-apocalyptic future, a lonely woman finds something strange on the beach and decides to conceal it.

HYSTERIC,2022

Director Rod Blackhurst

US, 1O min.

A mysterious sound, a mother stricken with madness, and two daughters caught in a fight for survival.

CONVERGENCE, 2021

Director Zechariah Thormodsgaard

US, 15 min

At the edge of a black hole, in the midst of a mission to save humanity, an astronaut discovers something that will forever change him.

Starring Eric Roberts

DARWIN FICK, 2021

Director Joe Benedetto

US, 19 min

When a famous author develops writer's block, an unusual option arises.

CONEXION,2022

Director Jamin Scotti

US, 10 min

After fleeing a chaotic family situation, a young woman discovers her True Self, in the vastness of the Mojave desert.

THE JOGGER,2022

Director Daryl Denner

US, 7 minutes

A woman’s jog through the park reveals a shocking discovery

ROBOT TELLS A JOKE, 2021

Director Cameron Strittmatter

US, 4 minutes

A brief and educational video about a young roboticist's current project

ARTSANITY,2022

Director Aleksandar Kostic

US, 14 min

A freelance photographer in New York City suddenly finds himself under a bleak confinement of his own mind. Isolated he roams the deserted streets in the night his mind becomes increasingly restless. But as time passes by, a strong sensation of being followed by a mysterious stranger creeps inside, while the empty city continues to draw him in.

NOTHING IS REAL, 2021

Director Masa Gibson

US, 4 minutes

Who gets to decide what’s valuable? A silent short film about a woman who lives life with a bold twist