Alternative Realities
- Short Film Programs
- 59 mins
Some may define “reality” as everything that we pick up with our five senses: sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste. But is that all there is? In truth—reality, or the perception of it—differs from person to person and encompasses the totality of all things known and unknown. These shorts transport us to realities similar and different from our own.
Program curated by Selena Yip
LIVE Q&A on 11/07 at 2:15 P.M. EST
In this program
The Discovery
Directed by Jill Von Dae
Captain Esson Halser is alone on Planet Aurelia, Earth’s nearest inhabited planet, to extract all organic life forms to send back to New Earth. Or so he thinks.
Echo
Directed by Mahin Sadri
A woman’s quiet and depressed life is suddenly disrupted by her new neighbor who has a husband and twin boys—making her think about different lives she could have had.
Kuroshio Current
Directed by Kun-Yu Lai
A Taiwanese immigrant tries to face the past he has been avoiding through an amulet.
Journey to the East
Directed by Eve Liu
A Woman with No Name retrieves her husband’s bones from a gang of mythical Chinese Cowboys.