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NEW YORK, NY: March 7th,9th

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

LOS ANGELES, CA: March 14th

THURSDAY

SANTA ANA, CA: March 15 -17

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

 

Schedule

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Ebell Club of Santa Ana

625 French St., Santa Ana,

714 547-6002

http://www.ebellclubsa.com
·         Tickets for Ebell and OCMA are $10 General / $5 Students, Teachers and Santa Ana residents.
·         All seats at Echo Park Film Center are $5
·         Admission to the OC Museum of Art is free, but we are charging admission to the screenings, which take place on the second floor, so attendees basically get a free day at the museum if they come to our OCMA screenings.

 

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BLOCK ONE

BEST OF PHILIP K. DICK SHORTS
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

 

 

 

 

BOOK OF TRUE FEELINGS (Virtual Reality 360)

2018
Director: Jason Ahiquist
USA, 3 min
A simple and fascinating virtual reality experiment with how performance context cues in virtual reality can shape experienced emotion. Ahiquist describes the work as an inverse of the Kuleshov experiment that discovered essential principles in context cues to convey meaning and emotion in film editing.

 

The Probe (Virtual Reality 360)

2017
9 min
USA, 9 min
Director: Aldo Romero
An automated space probe named "Annie Em" encounters an extraterrestrial spacecraft on Titan. This is the story of Earth's first fully aware and functioning artificial intelligence. Too bad Earth will never know. The questions posed in this piece stretch the definitions on what is considered intelligence and fully sentient awareness.

 

SUBVERSE - Web Series

2018
Director: Andrew White
UK,10 min.
In an alternate reality where everyone spends all their time indoors staring at computer screens, MAX agrees to go on a date in the 'outside' world. It doesn't go well.

 

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE

2018
Director: Tristan Costea Pina
USA, 9 min.
An unfulfilled high school senior becomes obsessed with an ominous radio broadcast containing steps to a cryptic puzzle. Thinking he is being pursued by a sinister organization, his search for clues takes over his life.

 

 

BEYOND THE DOOR

2018
Director: by Em Johnson, Producer Dashawna Wright
USA, 20 min.
One day Hedy brings home a cuckoo clock to decorate the baby's room, unbeknownst that the cuckoo clock has the ability to love and hate just like humans. The cuckoo clock tests the couple's loveby mimicking the presence of their deceased son
Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.
 

ENTHUSIASM ABOUNDS

2018
Director: Mark Ross
USA,13 min.
In a world where social justice is automatic and absolute enthusiasm Abounds.
 

FLIES

Director: Baobab Theater and Film Company
2018
UK, 13 min.
In the faded beauty of the house of his ancestors, a man waits for the return of the love of his life. Dark fantasies and crushing reality weave a dangerous journey as a struggle unfolds for his mind and ultimately his life. Flies don't come back so who cares about flies?
 

AVICENNA

Director: Daniel Stanush and Diego Chavez
2018
USA, 9 min
In a remote location a traveler finds a plant that induces life review in a VR lucid setting
 

THE HEREAFTER

2018
Director: Paul Anthony Navarro
USA,11 min.
When Alex awakes into an afterlife of her own design she discovers that her paradise might just be purgatory.
 

MYSE EN ABYME

2018
Director: Edoardo Smerilli
Italy, 11 min.
An eccentric and aristocrat gentleman devotes most of his time to a bizarre activity.
 

AXIUM EFFECT

2018
Director: Ari Dassa
USA, 11 min.
A woman drifts through her traumatic memories after overdosing on a drug pilfered from android processors.
 

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BLOCK TWO

FEATURE PRESENTATION
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

 

 

 

THE DARK RED

2018
Director: Dan Bush
USA, 101 min.
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
 

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BLOCK THREE

HORROR / SCI-FI
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

 

I AM THE DOORWAY

2018
Director: Simon Pearce,
UK, 20 min.
 
After a journey to investigate desolate Pluto, astronaut Arthur returns home a shattered man. He sees eyes forcing their way through the skin of his hands, eyes that distort his friends and the landscape itself into monstrous visions. Believing himself the doorway to alien invasion and gruesome murder, he must take desperate action.
Based on the short story by Stephen King.
 

GREY CANYON

2018
Director: Zeshaan Younus
US, 10 min
A couple encounters a presence in the wilderness that they cannot comprehend.

 

Ulysses

2018
Director: Jorge Malpica
Mexico, 8 min.
Warned by Circe, the Goddess, Ulysses ordered his men to tie him up to his ship¥s mast. Thus preventing him from surrendering to the enchanting mermaid¥s call, which devoured the unwary men seduced by it.'"The Odyssey".

 

SEREGET

Director: Dempsey Tillman
USA, 19min.
 
An emotionally detached husband (with a child on the way) gets a rude awakening when aliens invade his home and target his family.

 

THEY WAIT FOR US

Director: George and Lukas Shrank
UK, 20 min.
In a near-future end-of-life care facility, a reclusive hospital worker starts to believe a coma patient is attempting to communicate with him.

 

MEGAN

2018
Director: by Greg Strasz
Switzerland, 9 min.
The film tells the story of Megan Paulson, who along with the elite Delta Force team, investigates a mysterious attack by in present-day Downtown Los Angeles.

 

BITTEN

2018
Director: Sarah K. Reimers
USA,11 min.
A mysterious & violent encounter sends a dog on a night of adventure and possibility.

 

SPECTRES

Director: Nick Phillips
USA, 13 min.
After losing his family in a car accident, an introverted man interacts with the spirits of the dead who have yet to pass on.
 

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BLOCK FOUR

INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI SHORTS
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

 

A TIMELY REMINDER

2018
Director: Jamie Gower
USA, 1 min.
Time travel is a tough job. And filling out your time card is the toughest part. Especially if you're a part-time Time Parter at Time Parter Partners.

 

A SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS

2018
Director: Samuel Bradley
Canada, 10 min.
 
A science fiction fable which follows a group of ethereal creatures exploring a derelict space station.

 

BIRTH

2018
Director: Andrea Cecconati
Italy, 13 min.
 
Inside a Waiting room, where people choose to be born or be deleted forever, a little girl tries to drive people who have chosen not to exist into the row of birth.

BLAME IT ON TOBY

2018
Dire tor:Richard Knight, Jr
USA, 45 minutes
 
In the tradition of Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY, comes BLAME IT ON TOBY
Synopsis: Arthur Prentiss-Wilcox (Kevin J. O'Connor, Lord of Illusions, The Mummy, There Will Be Blood)
one of the Worldís wealthiest men, is also one its most eccentric. For starters, he is never seen in public without his closest
confident ñ Toby who is a murderous doll.
 

CONSCIOUSNESS THE AWAKENING

2018
Director: Rafhet Guerola
Colombia, 15 min
At the Universe's final moments, Logoz and Fydez take separate paths due to ideology differences. When their environment and their lives are in danger, one of them attempts to retake their relationship before its too late.

 

MIDNIGHT DELIVERY

2018
Nathan Crooker
USA, 10 min.
MIDNIGHT DELIVERY begins when a mysterious gift is delivered to an unsuspecting woman's door at the stroke of midnight. The woman's morbid fascination entices her to examine the gift, unleashing a sinister evil from within.
 

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AWARDS CEREMONY
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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