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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17
THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 WEST 44TH ST
1 PM-3 PM
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
A TEAR IN THE SKY
A TEAR IN THE SKY ,2021
Director Caroline Cory
US, 96 minutes
A TEAR IN THE SKY takes you on an unprecedented journey into the UFO / UAP phenomenon. A team of military personnel, scientists, and special guest William Shatner will attempt to re-capture, in real-time, the US Navy “TicTac” UFOs, using state-of-the-art, military-grade equipment, and technology. What they find instead are thought-provoking clues into the true nature of the UFO phenomenon and the very fabric of our spacetime reality.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
THE BARTOS THEATER
4 PM- 6 PM
BEST OF PKD INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI SHORTS
BELONGING- NIGHT,2022
Directors Cory Williams, Jacqueline Cooper
US, 5 min
This episode is a dreamily reimagined excerpt from Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night” (1956). A poetic sailor is at peace in nature but challenged to feel a sense of belonging amongst friends.
RED GAIA, 2022
Director Udesh Chetty
South Africa, 13 min
Alone on the dying red planet, among the ruins of human civilization, one last android desperately guards the last essences of life. In her pursuit of meaning, she finds her own soul hanging in the balance.Red Gaia is a tone-poem meditation on life, death and rebirth, destruction and creation, and the cycles of existence,drawing inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita, Dante's Purgatorio, the Kabballah, the Tibetan Bardol Thodol
KILL - BURN
Directors Adam Hayes, Nick Hayes, 2021
Taiwan, 7 min
KILL-Burn explores social media’s impact on mental health in a near-future society, a mirror to our own current times. We follow three protagonists on a journey to discover the possibility of learning to love imperfect reality, rather than perfect virtual realities.
FAITH, 2021
Director Carol Butron
Spain,19 min
When just a small child, Teresa has to face the disappearance of her best friend, Lucas. After many years and without having forgotten him, Teresa begins to have a hunch that Lucas is alive, but in another dimension
THE EMPATHY MACHINE, 2022
Director Grant Sissons
South Africa,10 min
Thembisile is a gifted neuroscientist. She dreams of building a machine that will facilitate the download of consciousness, and as its end purpose, facilitate the engendering of empathy. Progress on the machine is brought to a halt by the sudden death of her young daughter, Khanyisile. Thembi then uses the machine to attempt reconnect with her daughter's downloaded consciousness. For Thembi, it's a means of dealing with grief and a form of catharsis, but a process that will also bring its own painful realizations.
EARTHBOUND,2021
Director Baker Karim
Sweden, 10 min
When Earth has become inhabitable, mankind seeks salvation by leaving the planet on interplanetary arks to colonize other worlds. But who is chosen to represent mankind in the future
DAWN,2020
Director Shane Lim
UK, 18 min
On the night of the largest supermoon in history, Willow is called upon by her estranged father and finds society’s elites gathered in a secret facility, ready to escape the planet.
THE COLLECTOR,2022
Director Erik Sharpnack
US, 20 min
Set in an alternate world, where memories can only be fully experienced through special devices. Christoph, after finding someone's device, starts to blend his own memory with a stranger's lost one.
6 PM -8 PM
NOWHERE TO HIDE: SCI-FI AND SUPERNATURAL SHORTS
MEMENTO MORI,Trailer, 2022
Director Izzy Lee
US, 2 min
In 1983, a scientist in isolation resurrects a dead colleague.
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THE FORTUNE TELLER ,2022
Director Brian Abraham
Virtual Reality New Media
US, 4 min
VR180 narrative horror/thriller short film "A fortune teller who's down on her luck mistakenly summons the ghost of her ex-husband, revealing secrets that spell her doom."
Ticket buyers for this block will receive a link where they can watch this on their phone during the festival.
CREEP BOX,2022
Director Patrick Biesemans
US, 9 min
After his wife's suicide, a scientist tries to use new technology to determine if there is life after death. But some things are better off being put to rest.
BELFAST 1912, 2021
Director Dominic O'Neill
Ireland,12 min
Six unlikely souls gather for a seance in Edwardian Belfast. When a dark secret is revealed, their reality begins to unravel in this unsettling short horror film
POTATOHEAD, 2022
Director Joel B Harlow
US, 16 min
Meet Marti. Nothing special about him. He is just one of the millions sequestered at home under a mandatory lockdown. With no human interaction for months, loneliness has a way of seeping into all of us.
About the Director: Academy Award-winner JOEL HARLOW is one of the most innovative makeup and special makeup artists and designers in American motion pictures. Harlow has worked on some of the industries’s most popular tent-pole films to date
NIGHT,2022
Director Frank Sun
US,20 min
A man arrives to a friends apartment and hears sounds from outside his window... but is it real?
BLUE FIRE,2021
Director Nick Ronan
US,20 min
Deep in the snowy Blue Mountains, two damaged lives come crashing back together when they discover something in the forest not of this world.
THE DESECRATED,2018
Director John Gray
US, 8 min
A young morgue attendant working the night shift encounters an unwelcome visitor.
STAYCATION,2022, Trailer
Director Russell Emanuel
US, 2 min.
Teaser Trailer for the upcoming Sci-Fi Horror Feature Film "Staycation" starring Olivia d’Abo, Sean Kenney, Tracee Cocco, Laurene Landon, Kelli Maroney, Eileen Dietz