OTHER WORLDS

CLICK TO WATCH ON DEMAND 9-26 SEPT SHORT FILM SESSION OTHER WORLDS

ALIEN VS PREDATOR

Dir. Ian Haig | 2020 | 2:00 | AUS A black blob of viscous fluid pulsates and moves about the screen, a kind of dark matter of undifferentiated tissue and unknown bodily origin. Alien vs Predator is the dark web manifest as flesh.

CRUSOE

Dir. Shane Acker | 2021 | 7:25 | USA This Sci-Fi action comedy follows the adventures of Crusoe, an astronaut stranded on an alien planet teeming with hostile life.

Co-presented by Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival

DELEVE

Dir. Roma Glova | 2020 | 2:15 | Russian Federation Teenage girl makes selfie when strange things start happening.

DYSTOPIA

Dir. Laura Ugolini | 2021 | 6:50 | NORWAY Forget reality shows and Instagram beauties; a young girl's fantasy becomes the playground for a gang of women set to create the perfect man, one limb at a time.

FLORENCE

Dir. Florian Thess | 2020 | 13:00 | UK A prototype therapy AI robot cracks under the pressure of meeting her inventor’s expectations and needs to decide to either help millions, or herself

GENEVA JACUZZI'S CASKET

Dir. Chris Friend | 2021 | 6:06 | USA Los Angeles 2066AD: The Pleasure-U BioDrone, Kate Shaw's only assistant, has contracted an undiagnosed mentaldisease. The BioDrone’s head, inside a reprogramming bag, continuously calls to Kate’s brain with strange visions.

ON THE MARGINS OF METAXY

Dir. Sonia Albert-Sobrino, Miriam AlbertSobrino | 2021 | 3:00 | USA An experimental film that takes audiences to an imaginary world where the boundaries of the normal are broken or bent.

SLEEP TALKER

Dir. Carl Firth | 2021 | 7:00 | AUS A woman comes home to find that her husband is talking in his sleep, but soon realizes that something else is talking through him.

From near-future nightmares, uncanny Ais, alien visitors, and dancing from animation to surrealism, these science fiction, cli-fi, and post-cyber-punk shorts offer glimpses at imagined tomorrows and alternative todays.

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STANDING WOMAN

Dir. Tony Hipwell | 2020 | 14:59 | UK A dystopian drama about a near future where the government, rather than imprisoning criminals or deporting immigrants, turns them into trees as part of an insidious environmental campaign.

TELOS OR BUST

Dir. Brad Abrahams | 2021 | 15mins | CANADA/USA Ascended masters, new religions, inner earth cities, crystals and lost continents. Immerse yourself in the confluence of strange myths and beliefs of the citizens of Mount Shasta, California. A short documentary meant as a pilot for the docu-series Keep Folklore Alive.

THE DARK ODESSEY

Dir. Michael Lavine | 2020 | 8:31 | USA A brave captain and his faithful mate transport a captive warrior, who holds The Inventory of The Mind, across the interstellar line. When their ship is forced to navigate an asteroid field, their mission is jeopardised.

THE DEAD COLLECTORS

Dir. Brendan Cleaves | 2021 | 12:51 | UK During a pandemic in an alternate reality, two men have the job of collecting the deceased.

THE HOST CELL

Dir. Joey Hamburger | 2021 | 3:00 | USA Tilly is watching a Sci Fi show about space commanders trying to kill a Robotic Host Cell that has infected humans and turned them into robots. While she watches, her parents argue about what to do with her degenerate grandfather who has become a burden on their lives.

THE IDENTIFIER

Dir. Olly Geyl | 2021 | 6:00 | AUS In a future where memories can be embedded into physical objects for viewing and consumption, a young identifier is forced to authenticate the memory of a recently deceased murder victim whilst digging into the closed archives of a police precinct.

TIME WARP

Dir. Mark Howling | 2021 | 3:37 | CANADA Captain Pathfinder, pilot of the military orbiter Meteor Tree, is performing a spacewalk in his thick space suit. Only a few hundred feet away, there is the disturbing presence of an enormous and unknown saucer shape craft ready to make contact.