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