“Wanderers” @ the Digital Worlds Institute (July 15)

The College of the Arts’ “Creative B” summer film series includes a evening of short science fiction films from around the world.

“Wanderers – An Evening of Short Science Fiction Films”

July 15, 2015, 7–8:30 PM

Digital Worlds Institute
Norman Gym, 624 SW 12th Street, Gainesville, FL 32611

The most innovative and perhaps the most influential genres of science fiction film today are not the big-budget Hollywood spectacles playing on the screens of your local Googolplex, but the hundreds of short films created and distributed on the World Wide Web by small, independent, sometimes one-person, film studios. The capabilities of new, relatively inexpensive desktop animation and film editing software have unleashed the talents of independent sf filmmakers worldwide, and produced original, visually and narratively complex works of arresting beauty and historical significance. The films we will view were created by teams of filmmakers from seven nations. Most were released within the last five years. They are the edge of an advancing vanguard and represent some of the best work in contemporary sf film.

• Le Voyage dans la Lune (France, dir. George Méliès, 1902)
• Wanderers (Sweden, dir. Erik Wernquist, 2014)
• New Horizons (U.S., dir. Erik Wernquist, 2015)
• Abiogenesis (New Zealand, dir. Richard Mans, 2011)
• Robots of Brixton (Great Britain, dir. Kibwe Tavares, 2011)
• Pumzi (Kenya, dir. Wanuri Kahiu, 2009)
• Katedra / The Cathedral (Poland, dir. Tomek Baginski, 2003)

“Wanderers” is curated and presented by Terry Harpold. All films included in the event are suitable for a general audience. Some films may be too intense for young children.

All “Creative B” events are free and open to the public.