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The Philip K. Dick Film Festival - January 16th & 18th

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival lands at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday, January 16th & Sunday, January 18th.

This Festival showcases films inspired by the works of legendary author and philosopher Philip K. Dick, along with many others who have explored the metaphysical and the eerie in all its manifestations. These films push the cinematic form to new levels of creativity and originality, and challenge the viewer’s reality with ideas and concepts not normally found in conventional stories. For a complete program and to BUY TICKETS, go to:

www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com

Friday, January 16, 2024

7:00 pm

THEATRE ONE

Nightmare Code (89 min)

Directed by Mark Netter

A start-up hires a young programmer with a troubled past to finish the company’s product in the wake of the murderous rampage and suicide of the previous programmer. The deeper he probes into the code, the more his own behavior changes as the code takes on a life of it’s own. Utilizing surveillance camera, PC cam, videochat and eyeglasscam, for more than half the movie the viewer watches four images at once, but often out-of sync as if someone - perhaps the software program itself - is telling the story. Q&A after the with Director Mark Netter after the movie.

7:30 pm

THEATRE TWO

INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI SHORTS

DESAFFECTION

Dir. Thomas Charles
(17 min, France)
Specialists team of doctors places in quarantine a patient affected by a disease supposed to have disappeared: Love. Facing the threat, they proceed to a serial of tests on the patient to elaborate a vaccine.

TURN-ON

Dir. Mat Owen
(14 min, U.K.)
Valencia, an android repair man is woken by a phone call in the middle of the night and is forced to travel out to an emergency break down job. He arrives at a night club and is led down to the basement where he is confronted by a brothel hidden in the basement. The madame meets him and leads him to a malfunctioning female android that has been rewired as a prostitute, and she tells him to fix her as quickly as possible to avoid a large repair cost. Through the course of fixing the android however, Valencia’s personal feelings begin to encroach on his diligent work ethic and he develops a bond and moral obligation towards the broken female android.

 

DEAR LUCAS

Dir. Winnie Cheung
(19 min, U.S.)
A directionless young man finds the love of his life, and suddenly his whole world seems to make sense. But a message from his future self warns him to stay away to avoid a lifetime of pain and misery- will the love he’s found be worth it?

A Girl, A Cat, A Bomb

Dir. Laura Maxfield
(11 min, U.S.)
A young Brooklyn woman wakes up one morning to discover a nuclear bomb going off over Manhattan.

ROOM 731

Dir. Youngmin Kim
(18m, U.S.)
In this supernatural mystery, an amnesiac girl wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned jail, where she is haunted by spirits who want to torture her. Wei (YOO JUNG KIM), a fifteen-year-old Chinese girl, has no memory of where she is or who she is. Upon waking in a barred room, she encounters Dr. Ken (TIM KANG) and a ghostly young woman (NIKKI SOOHOO) who both seem to want to help her. Soon, Wei realizes she was a victim of the infamous Unit 731, the Japanese torture camp of World War 2, but where is she now … and why?
VIMANA
Dir. Faroukh Virani
(17 min, U.S. /INDIA)
VIMANA is a film about three Indian astronauts who are a product of India’s ambitious new deep-space program. Set in the near future, the astronauts are on a one-way trip to a distant planet, Gliese. Unfortunately, the ship’s captain, Rishi, passes away after an adverse reaction to the hyper-sleep. Now it’s up to the two remaining astronauts, Pankaj and Naaz, to come together and land the vessel in his memoir.

THE DISAPPEARED

Dir. Aldo Romero
(12 min, U.S.)
A private investigator encounters the enigmatic apparitions of people reported missing while investigating a case of corporate espionage involving alien technology.

KEPLER X-47

Dir. Erin Li
(11 min, U.S.)
A woman volunteers to live in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet but soon realizes that life is not what she expected. She attempts to rebel against the status quo, but will she succumb to her own need for security and remain a caged animal?
THE ATOM BOMB
Dir. Vanessa Gould, Artist, Jascha Hoffman
(5 min, U.S.)
After helping to usher in the nuclear era, a female physicist flees to China to live out her days on a Maoist farm, in this sweeping and lyrical music video edited from archival footage.

9:00 pm

THEATER ONE

Painting the Way to the Moon

Directed by Jacob Akira Okada
(54 min, US)

Painting the Way to the Moon is a feature documentary about Princeton mathematician and artist Dr. Ed Belbruno, who pioneered space travel while at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in the 1980’s. What makes Ed’s story so unusual is that his eureka moment in science came to him while he was painting. In fact, all of Ed’s space related work is intertwined with his work in art. Ed’s ground-breaking theory — that spaceships and satellites could use the mathematics of chaos theory rather than rocket fuel to get into orbit around the Moon — was rejected by his NASA peers for being too weird. His insistence that his theory could work ultimately got Ed fired from NASA. Right before Ed left JPL, he was given the chance to prove his theory and redeem himself when the Japanese government asked him to help rescue a malfunctioning satellite called Hiten. Twenty-five years after being fired, NASA and JPL use Ed’s method of space travel to send experiments into space. This film is about how art and science share a common process and explores how creative thinking is not only for artists.
Jacob Akira Okada (Producer, Director, Camera) Jacob co-produced and shot the Emmy nominated documentary OFF AND RUNNING (dir. Nicole Opper), which premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS.
Q&A with Ed Belbruno and Jacob Okada to follow screening.

 

9:30 pm

THEATER TWO

21 Days

Directed by Kathleen Behun
(89 min.)

Three filmmakers embark on a paranormal challenge by barricading themselves in a house so haunted, no one has been able to live in more than 21 days, in order to film the supernatural phenomena which presumably occur. But nothing can prepare them for the evil that lies in wait.
Q&A with Director Kathleen Behun after the movie.

Sunday, January 18, 2024

4:00 PM

THEATER ONE

INVERSE (100 min.)

Directed by Matt Duggan

A man bursts into consciousness, disoriented and confused. As he tries to regain his memory, he discovers a mind-blowing truth: he is from a parallel universe. Overcome with forbidden desire, he has broken a sacred rule of law and now must struggle to repair the damaged lives of those he loves before a dangerous government agency destroys them.

6:00 pm

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