The Sundance Film Festival enters its 27th year in January , and the labor organizer just announced the lineup of moving-picture show for this twelvemonth . They let in only two vaguely science fictional films : The Broken and Timecrimes . This is part of a vogue : Sundance tend to shun skill fiction films in general , despite the fact that Sundance declare itself “ scifi well-disposed ” in 2004 .
Even that allegedly favorable twelvemonth brought only three sci fi - ish plastic film to be screen in competition , includingPrimerwhich was critically lauded , but fancy by very few spectator . In fact , if you have n’t seen it , it ’s well worth your time .
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Sundance has a “ Park City at Midnight ” category that serves up what the jury thinks of as weird , alternative films , and it tends to serve as a catchall for anything remotely in the scifi vein . Last year Crispin Glover ’s bizarre It Is okay ! Everything Is hunky-dory riddle in this slot , and it ’s also been boniface to celluloid like Saw and The Blair Witch Proejct . But why ? Science fiction can understandably be as mysterious ( or as shallow ) as any other kind of prowess celluloid .
Marteinn Thorssson , co - conductor of the 2004 indie sci fi film One Point Oput it best :
A scientific discipline - fable film does n’t call for to be $ 80 million and use CGI . scientific discipline fabrication is about human beings interact with each other and with technology , and technology has become part of who we are today .
Here are the precis for this twelvemonth ’s semi - science fiction flick :
So where are all the indie science fiction films ? If you ’re trying to search them out at Sundance , you ’re rifle to have a hard prison term of it , but we advocate checking out the Midnight films , and the Animation Program . In fact , one of the coolest retro science fiction steampunk films we ’ve ever seen , The Mysterious Geographic Expeditions of Jasper Morello , screened as part of the Animation Program in 2005 and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006 . Check out part one below .
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