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SHORTS: SWEET FANTASY BB

Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping. Kitch cartoons bobbing up and down, AI triplets stretched out in limos, mermaids gorging on each other, BTS joining the army – images so strange and unsettling they rise to the level actually describing our reality. This program brings together four visionary filmmakers who approach media and fantasy as parallel dimensions to our own, shaping us just as much as we invent them. There’s no beginning and there is no end.

In this program


A Child Already Knows

Directed by Tiffany Sia

Public imageries archive private imaginaries in Tiffany Sia’s latest, a story of a family’s escape from Shanghai, recounted through the fragmentary perspective of a child, Mao-era cartoons, and train sounds.

OT7

Directed by Sofia Chang

Two friends process news of their favorite boy band, while footage of the band captures deep cut and earnest fandom, its escapist pleasures, and changes within oneself.

The Land At the Bottom of the Sea

Directed by Jen Liu

The final chapter of Jen Liu’s Pink Slime Caesar Shift series is a cannibalistic communion of lab-grown meat, CD-ROM era effects, biotech marketing and hungry mermaids.

history as hypnosis

Directed by Alison Nguyen

Three Vietnamese women, reprogrammed by AI, cruise the LA streets in a white stretch limousine in Alison Nguyen’s experimental comedy about forgetting, remembering, and coming in the air tonight.

Dates & Times

Edwards Mira Mesa

Saturday, November 9, 2024
12:20 pm