Modern-day time-travel adventure of Sherwin, a best man who travels back in time after losing a wedding ring. Practical effects. Low budget. And, massive brain teaser.
PLATO’S REALITY MACHINE is a 79 minute Sci-Fi/Romantic Comedy starring Trieste Kelly Dunn and featuring an innovative video-game storyline.
“For Charles, video-games are a much-needed escape from reality. But when virtual vixen Sophia leads him on a mysterious quest that interweaves with the lives of five love-lorn New Yorkers, they will all learn that in the game of life, every heart is a moving target.”
Starring:
Trieste Kelly Dunn (BANSHEE), Carolina Bartczak (BRICK MANSIONS).
Featuring an original score from Industrial music legend Raymond Watts (KMFDM).
Plato’s Reality Machine had it’s world premiere at the Oaxaca Film Festival in September 2013 and went on to an award winning international festival run, racking up two “Best Feature” wins. The film has been profiled in Backstage, IndieWire and C.H.U.D. It will be released on VOD nationwide on January 20th, and will have a special one-week limited theatrical engagement at the Arena Cinema in Hollywood beginning Friday, January 30th.
They may look like Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen, but in reality they are a captured alien race struggling for freedom.
Soon, what will be known as a “digital stroke”, will be commonplace around America’s dinner tables.
Robotic alien squirrels stalk human quarry in this weirdo sci-fi short. Originally made on a dare for the Lo-fi Sci-fi 48-hour Film Challenge. Includes a line donated by Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross, and music donated by Bob Wiseman.
Created by the director of Haphead, a cyberpunk webseries now Kickstarting for post.
What if you had to pay a machine to stay alive? The film blends beautiful art direction with a subtle romantic storyline that addresses how people will deal with illness in the future.
The folks behind the Lo-fi Sci-fi site and GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS have launched a Kickstarter for Haphead, check it out for brand-new, never seen before footage of the new neo-noir web series.
Darryl Gold, a previous winner in our Lo-fi Sci-fi 48 Hour Film Fest, is running his own Fantastic 48 Fest in Hamilton this Friday!
A low budget scifi thriller about a spacefaring, swarm-like nomadic alien species that discovers Earth. With unique and terrifying visuals.
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