Illuminating from all corners of the globe are the fundamentals of science fiction film which possess a striking hold on those who dare to charter into the unknown. It is here at The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival where the viewer is enveloped into a thoroughly rewarding experience of masterful productions and bold expertise. Returning for its fourth annual event from January 14-17, 2016 at the historic Village East Cinema with several events at Lovecraft Bar NYC, the festival will mark its four-day gathering with divinely crafted films, special appearances and countless fans eager to witness the very pulse of the heart and soul of science fiction.
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016: Lovecraft Bar NYC (50 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009) Pre-Festival Blade Runner Reception Time: 7:00pm-12:00am Prior to the festival, a special Blade Runner themed reception honoring this year’s lineup will be held and is open to all filmmakers and the public.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016: Village East Cinema (181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003) Short Film Block:
“Welcome To The Zone” Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Theater 1
The Adept (2015)
Director: Adam Stern Run Time/Country: 9 min, Canada
Synopsis: A brilliant physicist who dabbles in magic gets more than he bargains for when performing a card trick for his wife and colleague. Stars Adam Greydon Reid (Gracepoint, Continuum) and Jennifer Spence (Continuum, The 4400).
The Last Generation to Die (2015)
Director: Tim Maupin Run Time/Country: 16 min, USA
Synopsis: A daughter attempts to save her father from natural death in a future where science begins to stop aging.
The Alpha Invention (2015)
Director: Mark Towers Run
Time/Country: 16 min, UK
Synopsis: After applying an ingenious method to create artificial intelligence on his home computer, a reclusive programmer is contacted by a suspicious dealer looking to purchase the technology. As the phone call progresses it becomes evident that neither man is who they claim to be. Stars Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and William Hope (Aliens, Sherlock Holmes).
Flush (2015)
Director: Matt Cooper Run
Time/Country: 6 min, USA
Synopsis: Man and technology go head-to-head in this dark comedy/horror mashup.
Kosmodrome (2014)
Director: Youcef Mahmoudi Run
Time/Country: 15 min, Italy/France
Synopsis: Inside a KGB bunker the day after man landed on the moon, a psychic woman is brainwashed to kill the head of NASA.
The Last Abduction (2015) Director: Frank Perrotto
Run Time/Country: 18 min, USA
Synopsis: A science fiction writer becomes obsessed with acquiring proof that he was the victim of multiple alien abductions.
Zelos (2015)
Director: Thoranna Sigurdardottir
Run Time/Country: 15 min, UK
Synopsis: A competitive woman realizes she purchased an unbeatable rival when she commands a Zelos clone to outshine her flawless friend.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (20 min).
Short Film Block: “Humanity vs. Technology” Time: 8:30pm – 11:30pm Location: Theater 1
Caihong City (2015 – Official Trailer)
Director: Florina Titz
Run Time/Country: 2 min, USA/China
Synopsis: An inside look at an upcoming film depicting the adventures of a dying genius, a mentally ill prophet and a depressed prostitute in a fantastical city.
Aero Origins (2015 – Official Trailer)
Director: Arturo Vargas Run
Time/Country: 1 min, USA
Synopsis: An inside look at an upcoming film depicting the planet Antea, where a man and his brothers fight off an evil universal force that seeks to end their race.
Test (2014)
Director: Jay Lifton Run
Time/Country: 10 min, USA
Synopsis: A man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility run by odd employees.
Against the Wall (2011)
Director: David Capurso
Run Time/Country: 9 min, USA
Synopsis: In a futuristic city, a man and woman break into an abandoned hi-tech game park.
The Unremembered (2014)
Director: Chris Knight
Run Time/Country: 13 min, USA
Synopsis: A man must decide to either save himself or help a stranger from the future being hunted down by another time traveler.
Government Funded Robotics Research Experimenting on U.S. Soldiers (2015)
Director: Henry Prince
Run Time/Country: 7 min, USA
Synopsis: Government agencies launch the Second Soldier program which uses experimental robotics on active duty U.S. soldiers.
Requiem for a Robot (2013)
Director: Christoph Rainer Run Time/Country: 6 min,
USA/Austria Synopsis: A worn-out robot with a corrupt memory and an addiction to alcohol ponders the age-old question: “Where did he go wrong?”
The High Priestess (2015)
Director: William Holden
Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA
Synopsis: A depressed woman can’t seem to get out of her rut nor escape the fraud of her doctor and high priest.
Helio (2015)
Director: Teddy Cecil
Run Time/Country: 20 min,
USA Synopsis: A worker begins a revolution upon his escape attempt from a dystopian underground city.
Forbidden Beach (2015)
Director: Thierry Los
Run Time/Country: 7 min, France
Synopsis: Discover the codes of surf culture with “The Surfin’ Bots,” two laid back robots just waiting for the right wave at the beach but discover they aren’t the only ones.
Tap Tap Tap (2016) — World Premiere
Director: Dean Philips
Run Time/Country: 17 min, UK
Synopsis: The life of a script reading obsessive takes a surreal and dangerous turn when an old Italian typewriter mysteriously appears in his bedroom.
The Treatment (2015)
Director: Marvin Meiendresch
Run Time/Country: 7 min, Germany
Synopsis: One day, an isolated patient bound only to routine and his doctor’s care, notices that the massive door to his room is left ajar and takes the opportunity to escape. Upon his exit, he begins to question who he truly is.
Las fieras 1969 (2014)
Director: Alaric S. Rocha
Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA
Synopsis: A student locks herself inside her university’s bathroom werewolf-like creates invade the city and it is her love for others and weeks of pure loneliness which save her.
Will I Scatter Away (2015)
Director: Emma Eisner
Run Time/Country: 6 min, USA
Synopsis: Danger threatens a man seeking himself in a dream-like landscape.
Connection (2015)
Director: Zac Gillam
Run Time/Country: 8 minmin, Australia
Synopsis: Feeling the strain of early parenthood, a couple are recommitted to one another during a freak outer-worldly event.
Polaroid (2015)
Director: Lars Klevberg
Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA/Norway
Synopsis: Two women discover an old polaroid camera and in their own selfishness exploit the device, only to discover its horrible hidden past.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016: Village East Cinema (181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003) PKD Video Game Demo – Free Event Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm Location: Theater 1
“Californium” (2015) — USA Premiere
Developers: Darjeeling and Nova Productions, France
Gameplay: Discover the secrets, unlock the messages and explore an mysterious world. This first-person interactive video game honors the masterful works of Philip K. Dick as the player steps into the astonishing life of a writer trapped in shifting realities among 3D depictions of California. PKD sure was not kidding when he said, “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
Short Film Block Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm Location: Theater 2
Replika (2014)
Director: Luc Walpoth
Run Time/Country: 26 min, France/Switzerland
Synopsis: Forced to terminate her only daughter, a dysfunctional 13- year-old android, a loving mother tries to convince her husband to adopt a human child. However in a materialistic and functional world safety takes precedence over emotions.
Glitch Noir (2014)
Director: Cody Healey-Conelly
Run Time/Country: 3 min, USA/Netherlands
Synopsis: An animated and paranoid look at a vaguely futuristic world in which automated warfare provides plausible deniability for the multinational corporations that profit from weapons sales.
Avant (2015)
Director: Arthur Tabuteau
Run Time/Country: 14 min, France
Synopsis: In a world turn to ashes by a war without mercy against mankind and machines, there is a little boy trying to survive. Although the threat of robots are everywhere he is forced to leave in search of food but despite his efforts to hide, he gets caught and while all seems lost the reaction of the robot takes an unexpected turn.
reStart (2015)
Director: Olga Osorio
Run Time/Country: 15 min, Spain
Synopsis: A woman is trapped in a temporal loop that she may not be able to break.
Short Film Block: “World Mysterio” Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Theater 1
Clones (2015)
Director: Rafael Bolliger
Run Time/Country: 15 min, Switzerland
Synopsis: A dying quantum physics professor undergoes special brain surgery when he is offered the chance to live on within the body of a clone. Stars Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Galavant) and Deobia Oparei (Game of Thrones, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides).
Legacy (2014)
Director: Josh Mower
Run Time/Country: 13 min, USA
Synopsis: A man is forced into time sharing his consciousness in order to save his father’s mind but with two minds sharing one body, boundaries and relationships begin to blur.
The Search (2014)
Director: Devinder Paul Singh
Run Time/Country: 8 min, Canada
Synopsis: Arriving at a library after receiving a distressed message from his wife, a man finds that the realm offered by the structure appears to be beyond the normal human repertoire of experiences. He is unwelcome and in the jaws of the unfathomable adversary lurking there, everyone around him may be as clueless as he is.
The Light Thief (2014)
Director: Eva Daoud
Run Time/Country: 19 min, Spain
Synopsis: Heartbroken from pain and overcome by supernatural forces, discover if it is possible to regain the spark when the essence of Love is locked inside a nameless vessel.
The Hypnotist (2013)
Director: Jon Braver
Run Time/Country: 17 min, USA
Synopsis: A banished psychologist uses a device he created to enter his wife’s unconscious mind in order to pull her out of a five-year coma.
Chronos (2015)
Director: Martin Kazimir
Run Time/Country: 10 min, Slovakia
Synopsis: A troubled businessman is trapped inside a hotel room stuck upside down and where time runs backwards.
Kensho (2015)
Director: Aaron Paradox
Run Time/Country: 4 min, UK
Synopsis: A dreaming hero awakens and sees the Dreamer himself. Time freezes and one sees things as they are. Narrated by philosopher and writer Alan Watts.
Mercy (2015)
Director: Sean Bleau
Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA
Synopsis: They found it on the shore — bloated and dying.
Genghis Khan Conquers the Moon (2015)
Director: Kerry Yang
Run Time/Country: 17 min, USA
Synopsis: In the final days of Genghis Khan, the world’s greatest anti-hero is sent to the moon and finds himself on a spiritual quest while discovering the absurd clash between one man’s need and the silence of the universe. Stars Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, Mortal Combat) and James Hong (Blade Runner, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Feature Documentary Film Screening Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm Location: Theater 2
Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment (2015) — NYC Premiere
Director: Neil Edwards
Run Time/Country: 1 hour, 38 min, UK
Synopsis: The infamous cult “The Process Church of the Final Judgment” is said to be the inspiration for Charles Manson, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the root of the infamous Son of Sam serial killings that terrorized New York in 1976. Now ex-members of the group, formed in the 1960s, reveal the truth of what has long been considered to be “one of the most dangerous Satanic cults in America.” Features insights from music legend George Clinton, who included Process writings on two of his seminal Funkadelic albums, artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Manson biographer Simon Wells and authors Gary Lachman, Robert Irwin and Gaia Servadio who infiltrated the group in 1966.
Feature Film Screening Time: 9:30pm – 11:30pm Location: Theater 1
The Incident (2015) — NYC Premiere
Director: Isaac Ezban
Run Time/Country: 1 hour, 40 min, Mexico
Synopsis: Two parallel stories depict two brothers and a detective trapped on an infinite staircase and a family locked on an infinite road for a very long time. Stars Raúl Méndez (Netflix’s Narcos and Sense8, Texas Rising).
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Short Film Block: “Supernatural, Horror, Sci-Fi, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe” Time: 9:30pm – 11:30pm Location: Theater 2
The Mill at Calder’s End (2015)
Director: Kevin McTurk
Run Time/Country: 14 min, USA
Synopsis: In this gothic tale inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and M. R. James, a man returns to his gothic childhood home in the remote village of Calder’s End intent on breaking a deadly family curse. Stars John Alexander (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Men in Black II), Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Primeval), Piotr Michael (Impress Me, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey) and Barbara Steele (Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 and Mario Bava’s Black Sunday).
Penta (2014)
Director: Andrea Wolanin
Run Time/Country: 20 min, USA
Synopsis: Based on Italian folklore, the titular heroine is a robot created to be the perfect woman but as she acclimates the world around her, she startles her owner and creates a grim chain of events.
The Tell-Tale Heart (2014)
Director: James Cotton
Run Time/Country: 10 min, USA
Synopsis: Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, an nurse driven to madness murderers an elderly woman and buries the body beneath the floorboards.
Playback (2015)
Director: Nathan Crooker
Run Time/Country: 3 min, USA
Synopsis: Filmed in one take, a man turns on his television only to find static when suddenly, the live feed of a security camera appears showing a masked killer murdering a scantily clad woman in an apartment hallway. When the channel turns itself off and the man hears a strange noise outside his front door, he investigates only to discover the crime took place inside his own building.
Starving (2013)
Director: Mike De Caro
Run Time/Country: 19 min, USA
Synopsis: A former Wall Street trader plans a bank heist before providing the world with the antidote to a deadly virus that transforms victims into flesh eaters.
Sanguine Craving (2014)
Director: Gerard Tusquellas Serra
Run Time/Country: 13 min, Spain
Synopsis: The son of a happy serial killer family turns 18 and must kill his first victim — but he’s afraid not to feel the “sanguine craving.”
Awakenings (2015)
Director: Bhargav Saikia
Run Time/Country: 14 min, India
Synopsis: A woman caring for two children is haunted by mysterious entities as the line between reality and dreams is blurred.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016: Lovecraft Bar NYC (50 Ave B, New York, NY 10009)
Panel: Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, Science Fiction and the Politics of Identity Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm **This event is FREE with the purchase of any film block.**
Synopsis: Unearth the VALIS experience of Philip K. Dick and how it interpenetrates The Man in the High Castle, the definitive novel which is now an internationally successful television series on Amazon. Delve into the seduction of technology and extremism and how to guard against it to remain human and dignified in the digital age. Also, learn the truth about PKD and interpret if he is the James Joyce of science fiction. Guests include Philip K. Dick enthusiasts and scholars including writer, professor and media commentator Paul Levinson, writer and professor Richard Doyle, writer Adi Tantimedh (Bleeding Cool) and Darjeeling owner and interactive producer Noam Roubah. Village East Cinema (181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003)
Feature Documentary Film Screening + Panel Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm Location: Theater 1
Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton (2015) — NYC Premiere
Director: Jennifer Stein
Run Time/Country: 1 hour, 30 min, USA
Synopsis: The internationally recognized 1975 account of Travis Walton’s UFO abduction is explored. Delve deeper into the roles of the media, debunker Phillip J. Klass and the impact on Walton’s life over the next 40 years. Features original interviews with UFO experts and archive interviews with members of the original logging crew.
Panel: The Travis Walton Experience Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm Guests: A discussion with the film’s director Jennifer Stein, co-producer Bob Terrio, phenomena investigator Peter Robbins and The Huffington Post contributor Lee Spiegel.
Feature Documentary Film Screening Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm Location: Theater 2
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2015) — USA Premiere
Director: Coquart Yann
Run Time/Country: 56 min, France
Synopsis: Philip K. Dick was one of the most prolific writers of the modern era but more than thirty years since his death PKD is now considered the most prescient anticipator of the digital age. An agoraphobic who rarely left his suburban Californian home, PKD would travel through countless worlds in his mind — often with the help of amphetamines. In his many novels and short stories he described numerous themes haunting our lives today including virtual worlds, totalitarian societies and enslaving technologies. Together with Philip K. Dick, who reminisces about his life in a rare interview, his inner psyche is explored with the aid of his psychotherapist, his widow and his biographer with one interviewee noting that Dick spent much of his life writing about the “creeping sensation that all certainties stand upon sand.”
Short Film Block Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Theater 2
Memory Reloaded (2013)
Director: Despina Charalampous, Panos Pappas
Run Time/Country: 20 min, Greece
Synopsis: Two young people persecuted by bureaucracy unexpectedly meet in a world where the Dome of World Archives store the memories of gifted people which have replaced those of computers.
Number of Silence (2015)
Director: Csongor Dobrotka
Run Time/Country: 20 min, Germany
Synopsis: A mystery web series exploring the quest for truth among alternate realities, a fictitious metropolis, a huge corporation, a psychiatric hospital and a disappearing satellite.
Good Year (2015)
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Run Time/Country: 21 min, Japan
Synopsis: One night, a woman appears before a man working at a deserted factory in Yamagata Prefecture, where there is a large water tank that seems to have a creature inside.
Sample Return (2015)
Director: Chris Remerowski
Run Time/Country: 8 min, Canada
Synopsis: Two freelance astronauts, tired of being underpaid, travel between the stars in search of better jobs. After an unsuccessful job search they drift further into disaster in their unreliable craft before obtaining a curious sample return.
Grace (2015)
Director: Jem Moore
Run Time/Country: 11 min, USA/Taiwan
Synopsis: A man with a hidden past takes a temp job as a night watchman at a haunted and abandoned hospital where he may never escape.
Pong (2014)
Director: Dominika Ożarowska
Run Time/Country: 15 min, Poland
Synopsis: An embittered genius of particle physics performs the final experiment of his career, confronted with sentiments of his whimsical computer and a birthday party crowd.
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(2014)
Director: July Allard
Run Time/Country: 15 min, France
Synopsis: The Parker family lives through different universes and in each of these space-times, their life is subject to radical changes. An infinite number of choices and events are possible and everything can happen according to their actions.
Dive (2014)
Director: Matthew Saville
Run Time/Country: 13 min, New Zealand
Synopsis: A man will do anything to get back his reflection, which has a mind of its own.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Short Film Block Time: 9:30pm – 10:15pm Location: Theater 1
The Skyship Chronicles (2015)
Director: Christian Cashmir
Run Time/Country: 17 mins, USA
Synopsis: Set in a 1895 steampunk fantasy world of Ireland, a man is killed by his partner and his inventions stolen forcing his granddaughter to begin her quest to reclaim what is rightfully hers. Twenty years later in Wichita, Kansas, a postal clerk discovers a mysterious box containing one of the most powerful inventions and a so begins a battle for the ultimate weapon. Milgram And
The Fastwalkers (2015)
Director: Richard Cutting
Run Time/Country: 8 min, USA
Synopsis: An internationally prominent doctor inadvertently becomes a detective when his new client’s case sends them both deep into the dark world of UFOs.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Feature Film Screening Time: 10:15pm – 11:30pm Location: Theater 1
Chatter (2015) — NYC Premiere
Director: Matthew Solomon
Run Time/Country: 1 hour, 15 min, USA
Synopsis: While monitoring internet traffic, a Homeland Security agent watches the intimate video chats of a long-distance couple and discovers that their new home is haunted. Stars Brady Smith (Criminal Minds, Parks and Recreation), Sarena Khan (Jonny’s Sweet Revenge, Cavemen), Tohoru Masamune (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Inception), Alison Haislip (Attack of the Show!, The Voice) and Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica, Dynasty).
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Short Film Block: “Future Shock” Time: 9:30pm – 11:30pm Location: Theater 2
The Art of Human Salvage (2015)
Director: Dempsey Tillman
Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA
Synopsis: A young boy must be saved from execution. Stars Edward James Olmos (Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica) and Jamie Walters (Beverly Hills, 90210).
The Original (2015)
Director: Arthur Veenema
Run Time/Country: 9 min, USA
Synopsis: A computer programmer evaluates a digital replication of her own mind and discovers the machine is growing rapidly and thinking for itself. She soon realizes that this may be an authentic consciousness and their interaction casts her own individuality into doubt.
The Future Perfect (2014)
Director: Nick Citton
Run Time/Country: 11 min, Canada
Synopsis: A defiant time traveler questions every impulse within himself and cannot unlearn the very future he compromised. Stars Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek) and Robert Baker (Texas Rising, Mad Men).
Internal (2013)
Director: Oliver McGuirk
Run Time/Country: 15 min, UK
Synopsis: A woman plagued by hallucinations begins to question reality from fantasy and those closest to her, bringing about her own destruction.
Triumph of Time (2015)
Director: Ortal Sasson
Run Time/Country: 6 min, Israel
Synopsis: A man who receives a message from the future pushes his wife into the arms of another man and must decide whether to undo his own mistake.
Interface (2015)
Director: Sarah King, Amit Lennon
Run Time/Country: 12 min, UK
Synopsis: A shopaholic has become a target for the super-aggressive consumer-driven technology of the near future and must the ultimate purchase to save his relationship.
Strawberries (2015)
Director: Rowan Spiers-Floyd
Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA
Synopsis: A young woman with unique abilities and her enigmatic caretaker await a long expected call but his agenda may divide them forever.
Bears Discover Fire (2015)
Director: Ben Leonberg
Run Time/Country: 14 min, USA
Synopsis: A middle-aged man living on a lonely farm looks after his young sheltered nephew for the weekend. While on their way to visit the boy’s mother in a nursing home, they encounter a bear holding a torch. Bears have discovered fire causing a remarkable chain of events for this family in small town America. Based on the short story by Terry Bisson.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min). Lovecraft Bar NYC (50 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009)
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival After-Party Date/Time: 10:00pm-2:00am Presented by Evolve and Ascend, the festival’s after-party will feature DJ music and full bar. All filmmakers, guests and the public are invited to attend.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2016: Village East Cinema (181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003)
Short Film Block: “Sci-Fi Animation” Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Location: Theater 1
The Looking Planet (2014)
Director: Eric Law Anderson
Run Time/Country: 16 min, USA
Synopsis: A young member of the Cosmos Corps of Engineers breaks fundamental laws in the name of self-expression during the construction of the universe.
The Astronomer’s Sun (2010)
Director: Simon Cartwright, Jessica Ami Cope
Run Time/Country: 6 min, UK
Synopsis: A young man and his mysterious mechanical bear visit an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his father on a journey into the unknown.
Unfriended (2015)
Director: Josh Weisbrod
Run Time/Country: 11 min, USA
Synopsis: A man is torn between virtual friends, real friends and true friends on an isolated satellite in outer space.
Contorted (2015)
Director: David North
Run Time/Country: 6 min, Germany
Synopsis: Creatures meet the menacing “Giddywig” and witness the true nature of their Idol.
Flowerstream Prelude (2014)
Director: Patrick Yaney
Run Time/Country: 19 min, USA
Synopsis: A boy and his mother live underground in a strange world of mechanical trees. When something unusual happens to the boy, his mom insists he imagined it and he must decide to either listen to her or believe in himself.
Short Documentary Film Block: “The Fantastic Around Us” Time: 3:00pm – 4:15pm Location: Theater 1
Ohmawing (2015)
Director: Pietro Lombardo
Run Time/Country: 25 min, USA
Synopsis: Discover the unexplained phenomena associated with the Sasquatch encounters. First described in Native American folklore dating back two hundred years ago, a powerful energy is experienced in close proximity of a Sasquatch. It can manifest itself in variety of symptoms and some witnesses are even temporarily paralyzed.
Synesthesia (2015)
Director: Aisling Chin-Yee
Run Time/Country: 17 min, Canada
Synopsis: In a blend of animation and documentary, explore the brains and experiences of those with the neuro-cognitive phenomenon known as “Synesthesia,” when one of more senses are blended together. A world where one can taste a color, see a sound, where music can smell and the letter “A” is red. Through interviews, animation, music and sound design, get a peak into the multi-sensory experiences that are created in the pathways of the brain.
4850 Feet Below: The Hunt for Dark Matter (2015)
Director: Luke Groskin
Run Time/Country: 18 min, USA
Synopsis: A team of physicists armed with the world’s most sensitive particle detector known as the Large Underground Xenon Experiment or “LUX,” hunt for the astrophysical treasure known as “dark matter,” a never-seen theoretical particle believed to be located in an abandoned South Dakota goldmine.
Short Film Block: “Sci-Fi and Beyond” Time: 4:15pm – 5:00pm Location: Theater 1
Iris (2015)
Director: Richard Karpala
Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA
Synopsis: A man uses his smart phone to assist in burying a dead body. The Only Way Out (2015)
Director: Lawrence Whitehurst Run Time/Country: 6 min, UK Synopsis: In the near future filled with remorse and emotional torture an assassin flees from his personal life because of the murders he has committed.
Hemera (2015)
Director: Wesley Versteeg
Run Time/Country: 5 min, Netherlands
Synopsis: In the near future overrun with overpopulation a highly funded organization launches a project to move people to an earth-like planet called “Hemera”. With only the wealthy able to pay, rage and attacks arise among those left behind. The lead designer of the ship is allowed to invite his wife but then, attacks on the project become more frequent.
Enfilade (2014)
Director: David Coyle
Run Time/Country: 10 min, Singapore/Australia
Synopsis: A man awakens in a white room with two doors, both of which loop into the other. The room’s only objects are a red ball and a revolver containing one bullet.
We Interrupt This Broadcast (2015)
Director: Kurt Raether
Run Time/Country: 7 min, USA
Synopsis: A security guard at a museum spends his late night shifts re-enacting old radio dramas including Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds.
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
Feature Film Screening Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location: Theater 1
Counter Clockwise (2015) — NYC Premiere
Director: George Moïse
Run Time/Country: 1 hour, 31 min, USA
Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller/dark comedy, a scientist accidentally invents time travel and is zapped six months into the future. He finds himself in a sinister upside down world where his wife and sister are murdered and he’s the main suspect, forcing him to go back in time to uncover the mystery surrounding their deaths. Stars Michael Kopelow (Point Break, The Stöned Age), Bruno Amato (The Internship, Horrible Bosses 2) and Frank Simms (Tarzan, Anastasia).
Post-Film Q&A Panel: A discussion with filmmakers is scheduled to follow (15 min).
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Awards Ceremony Time: 7:15pm – 8:00pm Location: Theater 1 Awards will be presented for superb achievement in filmmaking. All filmmakers, talent, special guests and organizers are expected to attend. Festival Passes To purchase passes, please visit thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com. Passes for single films and blocks cost $20.00. Individual all-access day passes cost $35.00. All-access four-day passes (Thursday through Sunday) cost $100.00. Also visit Groupon at https://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-philip-k-dick-film-festival for exclusive discounts. About The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival: The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival is New York City’s first and only festival of its kind and is organized by individuals and filmmakers who understand the difficulties and challenges of telling a unique story in a corporate environment. With successful 2012-2015 festivals, international festivals in Lille, France (2013, 2015) and Łódź, Poland (2015) and numerous event screenings the festival is only beginning its vision of honoring the legacy of the great Philip K. Dick. The festival has received media attention from publications such as The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, Discover Magazine, Time Out New York, Gothamist, Metro New York, Examiner and a January 13, 2015 primetime segment on NBC New York/COZI TV’s News 4 New York at 7 with anchor Roseanne Colletti (viewed at nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/288485941.html). From guest speakers of directors, writers, producers and industry professionals who best represent the goals of the festival and original voices and enhanced visions in works submitted, this is a festival created for filmmakers by filmmakers. About The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Sponsors: OMNI Reboot: OMNI Reboot is the intersection of science, technology, art, culture, design, and metaphysics. It is an experience, as well as an environment for both the informed and the information seeker. It’s a quest for truth, learning from yesterday and speculating about tomorrow, uncovering hidden realities, and living to make readers dream and wonder a free-rolling resource in a terrifying, wonderful, metamorphosing world. A true glimpse into the future. For more information, visit omnireboot.com.
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About Philip K. Dick: “Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” – Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the 20th century’s most profound novelists and writers within the science fiction community. His exploration, analysis and beliefs led to the publishings of 44 novels and 121 short stories. Dick’s enormous library of works led to several film and television adaptations including Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990), Minority Report (2002), Paycheck (2003) A Scanner Darkly (2006), Radio Free Albemuth (2010), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Total Recall (2012), FOX’s Minority Report (2015) and Amazon’s critically acclaimed series The Man in the High Castle (2015). Dick’s enormously effective views comprised of fictional universes, virtual realities, dystopian worlds and human mutation foresaw a sensational version of the current state of government and contemporary life. Though he is gone in the physical form his philosophies live on in the techniques applied to modern narratives, films and ideals and generate large displays of appreciation and understanding.
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