The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its eleventh annual season. The festival will be held from Thursday, April 4 through Sunday, April 7, across Manhattan and Queens. Passes are available here.

“Philip K. Dick’s themes explore our humanity and relational stance with technology,” says founder and director Daniel Abella. “He taught us to embrace our inherent qualities and capacity to make the world a better place. Whether it’s UFOs, the rapid growth of AI and genetic engineering, or everyday factors such as pain, sadness, and grief, our festival serves as a medium for his work.”

Noted for his roles in Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Netflix’s Stranger Things (2016-22), Matthew Modine will appear at the screening of I Am What You Imagine, on Thursday, April 4. In addition, Arnold Chun, who starred in the Amazon adaptation of PKD’s novel The Man in the High Castle (2015-19), will attend the presentation of Purgy’s on Saturday, April 6.

As life continues to be as unpredictable as ever, the festival remains committed to offering important lessons through entertainment. “Science fiction is a mindset,” said Abella. “The boundaries between the genre and real life are quickly evaporating, and while PKD bemoaned how sci-fi was regarded as ‘pulp fiction,’ he would be very proud to know that his works are part of the literary canon, and serve as a preview into our very near future.”

The festival film schedule follows the jump.

[Based on a press release.]

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

International Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm EST

Burner’s Face
Director: John Gaunt 
United States, 2 min 
Composed by a team of 3 creatives + Midjourney AI, this trailer tells a story in less than 2 minutes. It is not a tech demo but a taste of what’s possible when Culture & Code come together. 

City Beyond the Tunnel (La città oltre il tunnel)
Director Lucilla Colonna
Italy, 15 min
A train very similar to the one featured in Federico Fellini’s movie “City of Women” is carrying Francesca, a nowadays woman. Strange events follow.

Set a Date
Directors Elías Balda, Cosme Mañero
Spain, 11 min
Thanks to new technology, Andrés, a young policeman, discovers that he will die in 20 minutes.

Not Him
Director Sarah Young
United States, 15 min
When her husband turns strange and violent, the wife becomes convinced he is possessed. But will anyone believe her?

Suicide III
Director Steph Maj Swanson
Sweden, 9 min
President Biden announces a new task force of bird-like federal augurs, directing them to stage a shamanistic intervention at the world’s largest hacker event. Can they protect the sovereignty of the future from time-meddling AI corporations? 

Chaska
Director Liz Guarracino
United States, 10 min
How would you feel if you found out the US Government created ancestry .com to catch a single being?

The Old Young Crow
Director Liam LoPinto
Japan, 12 min
An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

I Am What You Imagine
Director Matthew Modine
United States, 7 min
Matthew Modine’s new short film is a sensual exploration of the unexplainable. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Modine and long-time Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali (in his final performance), the short uses sound, music, and expressionistic imagery to take viewers on a journey of the heart and mind. Q@A with the director to follow.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

International Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 4:30pm – 7:00pm EST

Cassandra
Director Alexander Manolides
Greece, 25 min
A young woman visits a company that claims it can show the future of any relationship. When she discovers a future infidelity in her relationship with her boyfriend, she must decide whether to let the visions dictate her choices in the present.

The Conversation They Never Had
Director Anna Aleksandrova
Austria, 14 min
Viennese cafe somewhere in time. Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn. He got the prize and never mentioned her. She’s asking why. While talking about science, Lise takes an unexpected turn into reckless vulnerability expressing her life long love for Otto. Suddenly, Otto realizes that he missed the most essential part in science- love of the discovery. Taken by her sincerity, he is falling in love with Lise…but it’s a dream.

Algodreams
Director Vladimir Todorovic
Australia, 11 min
Algodreams are made by prompting AI systems to imagine the future of life on planet Earth. They dreamt of time machines, memory machines, flamingos that can save the oceans, the AI civilization that destroys humans to protect the planet, and they dreamt of self-driving bicycles that fall in love.

Lost in the Sky
Director Simon Öster
Sweden, 13 min
After a long search in a strange galaxy, a lone rescue robot locates a surviving astronaut, but must reach her before she’s consumed by a looming black hole.

Little
Directors Meka Ribera, Álvaro G.
Spain, 12 min
When they are born they are precious, almost perfect. But they grow so fast. I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujours combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blocking to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby.

Emily’s Mountain
Director Tal Somech
Israel, 22 min
Emily celebrates her 6th birthday on a magical trip with her family and is slowly exposed to the horrifying reality that her parents are trying to conceal from her using modern technology and entertainment systems.

The River
Director Christine Dabague
Lebanon, 30 min
After a Syrian family’s statue of the powerful goddess Inanna is stolen, their daughter embarks on an adventurous journey to retrieve the elusive icon.

Dandelion
Director Gillian Simpson
United Kingdom, 12 min
Alice lives alone in the middle of a field of wind turbines, the constant thump thump her only companion. She is haunted by the memories of the day her daughter Grace and her partner, Jamie died, a tragedy that she can’t seem to recover from.

The Discarded
Director Uli Meyer
United Kingdom, 3 min
A character designer struggles with the design of a cartoon cat and ends up on a short trip through the looking glass.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Documentary Presentation
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm EST

Accidental Truth – UFO Revelations
Director Ron James
United States, 90 min
Officials who interact with the public regarding the UFO question openly acknowledge that they know things that they can’t reveal. In “Accidental Truth,” the truth about another, advanced intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear. Narrated by Matthew Modine.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Supernatural and Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm EST

The Name
Directors Renato Paone, Francesco Eramo Puoti
Italy, 20 min
The Dominican order has requested a special computer from an engineering laboratory capable of solving a complex algorithm, but only the monks know its real purpose. Caterina, a young researcher, is thus sent from the laboratory to the Dominican abbey with the task of supervising the functioning of the machine. A task that will forever mark his destiny and that of all humanity.

Drawn
Director Ty Clancey
United States, 25 min
A widower and his young daughter fend off a predatory land speculator by any means necessary in this psychological thriller set on a dying ranch in the Southwest. With shifting points of view and a twisting power structure, the story delves deep into our perception of control, unraveling a family myst.

Homecoming
Director David R. Hardberger
United States, 5 min
A woman is awakened in the middle of the night by her husband at the front door. When she tries to tell him he can’t be there anymore, he ignores her words.

Night Feeding
Director Sarah K Reimers
United States, 6 min
A new mother struggles through the 4 am feeding time.

The Wallpaper Man
Director Amit Gupta
United States, 7min
Based on the popular short story, “The Wallpaper Man”, this film is about a young girl who moves into a new home with her abusive father after the tragic death of her mother. There, living within the walls is a creature who offers Emma the ultimate deal: he will take away her pain, in exchange for human life.

Old Flames
Director Fugitives
United States, 5 min
A haunting portrayal of a recovering addict learning to live with her demons.

The Gorge
Director Ryan Neil Butler
Australia, 15 min
A grieving woman and her friends must survive a night in the woods when an unseen force begins to hunt them. But not is all as it seems.

The Third Bedroom
Director Kathryn Van Buren
United States, 23 min
On a gloomy winter trip to help her father prepare their ancestral beach house for sale, little Isla illuminates some of the darkness that haunts the family tree.

Giallo
Director Yogesh Chandekar
India, 8 min
A quirky ode to Italian Giallo cinema, a young woman returning from a party is stalked by a mysterious masked killer who’s much more than what he seems to be. Starring Saiyami Kher and Renuka Daftardar.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Family Hour Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm EST

Strange Days at Blake Holsey High: Echoes — Episode ‘Hanna Part 3’
Director Paul Hart-Wilden
United States, 12 min
The NBC sci-fi series Strange Days at Blake Holsey High returns as an original web series, Strange Days at Blake Holsey High: Echoes. Set in the present-day, Echoes takes place 16 years after “the Science Club” graduated from Blake Holsey High and the school closed forever.

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands
Director Russ Emanuel
United States, 28 min
Kaylee, an apprentice assassin for TAA Corp., is taking a long-deserved vacation in the Canary Islands, when her Freerunner drone arrives to project a holographic image of Rick, her handler. Rick explains to Kaylee that her vacation has been cut short, and that she is being urgently summoned by Roy, the head of TAA Corp.’s Canary Island Bureau headquarters, for a new mission. Kaylee follows the Freerunner drone to the TAA Corp.’s Canary Island headquarters,

Game, Interrupted
Director Ilayda Iseri
Turkey, 15 min
While the mood on the streets of capital Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young sister and brother find their way out of boredom by switching from one game to another during their winter break., Something goes wrong that day. While trying to figure out what happened, they notice a strange intruder at the door, who resembles Khomeini or Darth Vader.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Experimental Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 12:00pm – 2:30pm EST

The Bytes Dreams are Made Of
Director Alessandro Amaducci
Italy, 67 min
The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.

Fire Syndrome
Director Jonathan Nolan
Australia, 22 min
On the alien world of Unruhe far off in the Whale’s Mouth sector of space, science turns on its creators due to the influence of a sinister force.

War Time
Director James Shigeo Osborne
United States, 10 min
Through found footage from his life and others, a young man reflects on his days after a great global war: his struggle to find happiness amongst the rubble, and the fear of forgetting everything he once was

Garbage Days
Director Julien Jauniaux
Belgium, 13 min
A violent man faces the illusions of justice.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Japanese Sci-Fi Feature
Time: 2:30pm – 5:00pm EST

Distant Thunder
Director Takayuki Ohashi
Japan, 140 min
The end of the world is just months away. A comet collision is about to destroy the human race in a few months. The three sisters, Ayane, Kanon, and Oto, who have been living separately for a long time, come to live together in Setouchi, their birthplace, after the death of their father. Oto, the youngest sister, feels uncomfortable living.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Animation and Anime
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm EST

The Ultimate Show
Director Laober Zhu
China, 8 min
Xiao Kai, a young man from a small town, starts to live-stream his sensory experience through “Butterfly Dreaming Live Show “, and goes step by step into a deep abyss under all kinds of temptations.

Meditations
Director Adolfo Ruiz
Canada, 10 min
Meditations is an animated film that revolves around a psychotherapy session set in a dystopian future. By probing the inner psyche, a novel form of technology produces a therapist in the image of a lost family member. The encounter reveals a form of meaning-making that is mediated by technology, but ultimately emerges from the patient’s recounting of events.

Feast of Amrita
Director Saku Sakamoto
Japan, 47 min
Xiao Kai, a young man from a small town, starts to live-stream his sensory experience through “Butterfly Dreaming Live Show,” and goes step by step into a deep abyss under all kinds of temptations.

Frontier
Director Xiaopeng Zhu
China, 10 min
The intern Li Wei, as a test subject of artificial intelligence, faces the temptation and persecution of the central system in an experiment where the boundaries of morality and humanity seem to be unfortunately out of control, and still chooses to sacrifice herself to preserve humankind.

Don’t Mess with Shiva Part 1
Director Lorenzo West
Canada, 8 min
A talk show host travels with Frank Doomsday’s team of super soldiers from the Roman Empire, to a dome at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. They intend to free Anubis (the Egyptian god of Death) and avoid waking Shiva the Destroyer.

The Dark Odyssey 2 – Ice Nexus
Director Michael Lavine
United States, 12 min
A skeptical astronaut discovers a lost spaceship and gets tangled up in a dangerous journey to a mythical space-time portal, the Ice Nexus, in search of the Inventory of the Mind, essential knowledge for ending the Eternal War.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Sci-Fi and Supernatural Shorts
Time: 6:30pm – 8:45pm EST

Bisected
Director Danny Pineros
United States, 8 min
A couple witnesses a paranormal event that separates them into two distinct dimensions.

Adjudicators Pawn
Director David French
United States, 6 min

Fracture
Director Jon K. Jones
United States, 8 min
In the future, a lone astronaut loses consciousness on a distant planet after a catastrophic injury, only to wake in a mental institution on Earth during the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Manic, the Hoarder, and the Discombobulated Seahorse
Director Yann Krajewski
France, 33 min
A concerned neighbor calls an intervention service when she realizes how bad Walter’s hoarding problem has become.

Rainy Days
Director Mo McRae
United States, 12 min
Abandoned as a baby, Percy’Q traverses through life attempting to overcome the traumas of his past.

Black Dragon
Director Alexander Thompson
United States, 15 min
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Viet Cong girl who harbors some very unusual powers. A Jungian psychological thriller/parable examining the capacity for monstrous evil lurking within us all, the film is loosely inspired by the My Lai Massacre,

Captcha
Director Stefano Bolognini
Italy, 10 min
What if the ChatGPT artificial intelligence was directly implemented in an external hardware? It would be necessary to test it, improve it iteratively, and achieve ever more stable and efficient releases. An interview between Alpha and Beta, but who is testing who? What is real, what is human, what is artificial?

Mercury
Director Clara Dubau
United States, 10 min
Elio volunteers for a filmed experiment to help him reconnect with a repressed memory.

The Crystal Crypt – Remastered Ten Year Anniversary Edition
Director Shahab Zargari
United States, 28 min
Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, The Crystal Crypt is set in the distant future, with Earth and Mars teetering on the brink of interplanetary war. Just as the final passenger flight to leave Mars for Earth is about to depart, the spaceship is suddenly halted by Martian officers in search of three saboteurs who have destroyed a Red Planet metropolis. Will the soldiers find the guilty trio? A tense story of patriotic heroism – and deception – unfolds, as the secrets of both the Terrans and the Martians are revealed.

Part Time
Director Anthony Misiano
United States, 12 min
Everyone’s got a back-up gig these days. As Skip’s job interview starts to sink, the truth about his other occupation begins to surface. “PART-TIME” delivers surprising turns and unforeseen chills, while asking the timeless question, “What if you were a carrot?”

Don’t Bother The Neighbors!
Director Jeff Gorcyca
United States, 7 min
Jay gets more than he bargained for when he goes upstairs to tell off his noisy neighbors.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024:

The Producers Club (358 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)

Feature Presentation
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm EST

Super Beef
Director Nicholas D’Agostino
United States, 100 min
Super Beef is the story of Hondo, a drug-abusing, heavy-drinking, narcoleptic who only wants to relax and eat a popular local sandwich. Instead, fate has him embroiled in a plot alongside and against government agents, interplanetary-beings, and a secretive coterie that offers unheralded knowledge through a mysterious ceremony. Q@A with the director to follow.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Shorts
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST

Homologies
Director Bryerly Long
Writer/Co-Producer Tatiana Blackington James
United States,12 min
Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.

First Time Machine
Director Jay Woelfel
United States, 18 min
African American scientist, Dr. Grainger gathers his closest friends to show them his invention: the world’s first-time machine. However, one of his friends has hidden and dangerous intentions for traveling back in time. An adaptation of the classic sci-fi short story by Fredric Brown.

A Passage
Director A.P. Bergeron
Canada, 7 min
A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude.

Half Samurai
Director Rashad Haughton
Japan, 11 min
A mysterious drifter wanders into a bar owned by a psychopathic yakuza gang on Halloween night.

Is This All A Dream?
Director Logan Fry
United States, 7 min
A series of dreams, and dream fragments, as interpreted by Max Headroom and William Shakespeare.

Skin Job
Director Steve Simmons
United Kingdom, 15 min
A group of slave Androids steal a space shuttle and journey back to earth to find their maker.

Useless Eater
Director Ian Haig
Australia, 2 min
Mutated hackable bodies, bodies that didn’t quite work out and bodies that can no longer be classified as bodies. Drawing on the transhumanist musings of Yuval Noah Harari…. Humans are now hackable animals.

Crazy These Days
Director Tara Karsian
Writer/Producer/Actor Virginia Reese
United States,12 min
Weird things keep happening while Elise is alone, so when her husband, Derek, returns unexpectedly from a business trip to surprise her, it has the opposite effect.

You’re Not Allowed to Leave the Room
Director G. Gotham Smith
United States, 6 min
A man is not allowed to leave a room.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Documentary and Short Film Sci-Fi
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm EST

Chaska (trailer)
Director Liz Guarracino
United States, 2 min
How would you feel if you found out the US Government created ancestry .com to catch a single being?

Is Not Up to Us
Director Anthony Werhun
United States, 13 min
Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth behind Nancy’s beliefs and how they shaped her career evokes questions about the nature of creation and of reality itself.

Purgy’s
Director Robbie Bryan
United States, 17 min
At a magical bar, spirits from the other side can take the form of another human and interact with those in their past who need closure and re-connection. Q@A with Arnold Chun, Robbie Bryan, and producer Spero Stamboulis to follow.

The Fisherman’s Wife
Director Jared Watson
United States, 9 min
A fisherman struggles to sustain himself and his daughter. His net catches only plastic refuse and animal carcasses. One bleak morning, after another failed fishing expedition, the fisherman makes a surprise discovery: a mermaid, washed ashore. She’s tangled in a net, terrified, and struggling to breathe.

Soulmate
Director Richard Fenwick
United Kingdom, 15 min
Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.

Buffering…Please Wait
Director Samantha Cheryl Lai
Canada, 14 min
A nameless woman confronts the memory device embedded inside her brain, in search of a lost identity. The truth, however, bears too much weight. Whatever she uncovers, continues to weigh her down, time and time again.

The Unquiet Dead
Director John Gray
United States, 12 min
A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits who are demanding something from her.

Lift Me Up
Director Daniel Corey
United States, 2 min
Set in a futuristic Blade Runner Universe, “Lift Me Up” is a music video that gives the listener a feel that blends the aura of Paul Simon with the rustic Americana of Bruce Hornsby and the raise-the-roof anthems of U2.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Feature Presentation
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST

Creep Box
Director Patrick Biesemans
United States, 95 min
A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back. Starring Geoffery Cantor (Daredevil, Foundation), Sean Mahon (The Cursed, Red Rock), and Adam David Thompson (Here Alone, The Thing About Pam). Written and Directed by Patrick Biesemans. Q&A with director Patrick Biesemans and producer Noah Lang to follow.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

PKD Talks Series
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm EST

PKD Talks 1: Film Distribution Through the Eyes of a Filmmaker:
A real and pragmatic view of the “true” mechanics of independent film distribution. The realities of the deal “not” on paper. How to evaluate a distributor or sales agent….they are not the same thing.  What it really takes to make and distribute a film successfully.  Here is an opportunity to learn from a producer who has completed and distributed 20 plus films and also crossed the line into distribution for the past six years. Spero Stamboulis, and I’ve been immersed in the entertainment industry for nearly 30 years. Since 2007, he has-been actively involved in producing movies, and in 2017, he had the opportunity to explore the distribution side of filmmaking. The experience was truly eye-opening, exposing me to the intricate complexities of distribution.

PKD Talks 2: Winning The Game of Distribution:
With Carylanna Taylor, the director of Sales and Acquisitions at The Film Sales Company, a New York-based sales company that strategizes and secures distribution for independently produced films. Since its founding in 2002, the company has successfully raised financing for and sold over 250 films to a diverse group of domestic and foreign distributors.

PKD Talks 3: It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles with Paul Levinson:
Paul Levinson will be reading from his new novel, It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles. A peek inside the novel: It’s 1996. WFUV disc jockey Pete Fornatale walks in the tunnels under Fordham University, then travels downtown to Grand Central Terminal and finds the world of music that he inhabits is very different. As he struggles to understand how to get in and out of alternate realities, and make sure John Lennon is not killed in any of them, Fornatale will actually dine with John Lennon and David Bowie, consult with Leonard Cohen, attend a Beatles concert with Diana Ross in Central Park in 1996, and work with a variety of real life characters you may or may not have heard of.

PKD Talks 4: Celebrating 25 Years of the Blair Witch Project:
Join Mike Monello, a producer of The Blair Witch Project, as he discusses the impact of this film over the years. He will also talk about his new VR project with Stich Media entitled Broken Specter.

PKD Talks 5: The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing a Good Screenplay:
Talk with the semifinalists of the festival’s screenplay competition.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Humanity Prevails Short Films
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm EST

Suppressus
Director Grant Jones
United States, 19 min
Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia.

Reverie
Director Kelli Elizabeth Horan
United States, 11 min
In a future where time travel is used as a form of therapy, Imogen grapples with the weight of her troubled past and is given the opportunity to revisit her younger self and confront the experiences that shaped her present self.

How Soon Is Now?
Director Mia Holly Kim
United States, 18 min
A grieving software engineer spends his days perfecting a deep-learning artificial intelligence, intending to become the first AI CEO of a major corporation. While Nick strives to turn off his own emotions, he begins to get pulled into the heartbreak of an anonymous co-worker which challenges his beliefs about the nature of love.

Demon Box
Director Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 min
A director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.

Human Resources
Director Jay Ness
United States, 10 min
A human resources professional must teach a timid new hire how to perform empathy. As she instructs him through a series of social behaviors, they form an unlikely connection.

Autopilot
Director Jennifer Zhang
United States, 17 min
A lone pilot on a homebound space vessel finds herself trapped in a waking nightmare when her holographic “virtual companion” begins to defy his own programming.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Sci-Fi Feature Presentation
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm EST

Quantum Suicide
Director Gerrit Van Woudenberg
Canada, 87 min
A lone physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality. In the process of his experiments he suffers radiation poisoning, loses his vision and alienates his partner, who eventually leaves him. But in his obsession, he finds clarity and the key to understanding our reality. There is one final test he must perform. Q@A with the director to follow.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Supernatural Feature Presentation
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST

Alone Together
Director William Kresch
United States, 94 min
After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and emotionally abused woman and her volatile boyfriend are forced to face the vengeful spirit that haunts it—and each other. Q@A with the director and producer to follow.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Virtual Reality Demonstrations (All Day)
Broken Specter
by Evan Jones
Canada, 120 min

Bloody Reunion
by Haiping Gu
China, 30 min

Screenplay and Graphic Novel Submissions
Benjamin Franklin and the Galaxones
by Rodgers Wilson
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

Sebastian and the Invisible Island
by Michael William Hogan
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

Ticket Twenty-One
Writer Simon Prunty
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
Ireland

Cryptobot’s Trial
Writer Michael John Volpe
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

The Verge of Seas
Writer Albert M. Chan
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

The Nether
Writer Jannik Ohlendieck
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
Ireland

Solipsism
Writer Duncan B Putney
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

The Girl Who Killed God
Aldo Romero
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
United States

Family Law
Writer Tatiana Blackington James
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

Teleportation Security Administration
Writer Kevin J. Howard
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition
United States

Bad Luck
Writer Robbie Robertson
Best Supernatural Screenplay Competition
United States

Passage
Writer Firdaus F. Bilimoria
Best Supernatural Screenplay Competition
Canada

Them
Kendall Brown
Best Supernatural Competition
United States

Halloween Girl Book One: Promises to Keep
Writer Richard T. Wilson
Best Horror Graphic Novel
United States

Dragons and Wolves
Writer Drew Henriksen
Best Supernatural Novel
United States

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Awards Ceremony
Time: 6:45pm – 7:00pm EST
Awards will be presented to the category winners of The 2024 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.

About The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival:

“The core of my writing is not art but truth.” – Philip K. Dick
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, which launched in 2012 as New York City’s first and only festival of its kind, honors the enduring legacy of novelist Philip K. Dick. His enormously effective works composed of fictional universes, virtual realities, dystopian worlds, and human mutation served as a significant observation into the current state of society. Organized by individuals and filmmakers who understand the difficulties and challenges of presenting unique narratives in a corporate environment, the festival embraces original concepts and alternative approaches to storytelling. Since 2013, the festival has held additional gatherings in France, Germany, Poland, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles. The event was named one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine in 2022.