Welcome to the Philip K Dick Film Festival
ONLINE EDITION
THE ONLINE EDITION LINEUP
MARCH 12- MARCH 26
All Tickets $20
Film Program Goes Live on March 12 12pm EST and runs until March 26, 12pm EST
Customers will be sent an access code after purchasing ticket
with a link to the screening Page
UPDATE!!!
Q&A with Filmmakers of This Block
Hello, World!
CRIMSON & STEEL
Director bruce hunt
Australia, 6 min
Music Video
SUPERCONSCIOUS
Director CHRISTIANNE HEDTKE
United States, 22 min
Set in 1973, against the height of the energy crisis, a simmering Cold War, and the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, CYBIL G. journeys to a far-flung human potential center to join the REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM, a scientific study on so-called “psi energy.”
All Your Sisters
Director David A. Daniels
United States, 9 min
A cerebral anthology/mystery about a disturbing and new social media ecosystem, where multiple lives intersect and collide under the influence of sentient AI.
16 Rachels Season 2 (Episode 1)
Director Keaton Smith
United States, 18 min
Planet Earth was purchased by one of the wealthiest mining companies in the universe—forcing the entire human race to migrate elsewhere in the cosmos. Emotionally intelligent androids were hired to facilitate mass exodus and prepare Earth for demolition
The Last Horse
Director Pamela Winfrey
United States, 9 min
Against the backdrop of an apocalyptic future, two parents, wrung out by recent catastrophic events, are haunted by their only daughter
Phobos (Sub Eng)
Director Pietro Crozza Signoris
Italy, 16 min
In a remote observatory, a physicist and a philosopher confront their ideas. When the telescope autonomously points toward the sky, something changes. A psychological journey where rationality breaks down and fear manifests. Nothing can be controlled anymore
The Lone Piper
Director Matthew Kravchuk
United States, 9 min
In the midst of the Seven Years' War, a company of hardened soldiers force their young bagpipe player into battle, only to discover that their enemy is not what they expected.
The Gun
Director Randall Christopher
United States, 11 minutes
On a distant planet all life has been annihilated through war, but when a team of scientists arrive they discover a terrifying weapon that still functions. Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick
UBIK: Ontological Decay and Maintenance of Reality Fields AI
Director Dalibor Barić
Croatia 11 minutes
This experimental docu-fiction essay connects Ubik's "ontological economy" with the idea that existence has a cost of maintenance, and that the characters themselves are the process of preserving the failure in which they live. In the end, Ubik is recognized as an early informatics theology: God is not the creator, but the debugger of reality
Karayr (Cave)
Director Neo Apelian
Jordan, 18 min
In the aftermath of a biological war that reduced mankind to ape-like cavemen, a lone survivor tries to civilize a caveman. The story is set in a fictional Middle East, and takes place in the wake of a biological war that devolved people back to ape-like cavemen
Animalia
Director Marius Rolfsvåg
Norway, 25 minutes
Animalia is a fable about the relationship between humans and animals. Set in a future where nature has reclaimed the world, cities are overgrown, and humans have turned into animals – except for a few, sealed inside an airtight city. When Alm is sent to rescue newborns from the animal-like humans, she discovers the humanity in animals – and the animal within herself.
While Some Must Sleep
Director Craig Urquhart
Canada, 20 min
Elliot decides to erase all memory of Liz, his ex, using Lemosyne Ltd’s AI-based memory reconfiguration service. He discovers too late that Tom, his Personal Counselor AI and best friend, has to be erased for the process to complete
