Program Two: A Separate Reality

Total Running Time: 90 mins.

Chaska (Trailer)
Dir. Liz Guarracino, 2022, 2 mins.
How would you feel if you found out the U.S. government created ancestry.com to catch a single being?

Last Orders (Trailer)
Dir. Jason Housecroft, 2002 2mins. 
Two characters are lost in a landscape search for memory and meaning.

Origin Story 
Dir. Robert Cummins, 2002, 3 mins. 
In a military-controlled, postapocalyptic future, a lonely woman finds something strange on the beach and decides to conceal it.

Hysteric
Dir. Rod Blackhurst, 2002, 10 mins. A mysterious sound, a mother stricken with madness, and two daughters caught in a fight for survival.

Convergence 
Dir. Zechariah Thormodsgaard, 2021, 15 mins. 
At the edge of a black hole, in the midst of a mission to save humanity, an astronaut discovers something that will forever change him. Starring Eric Roberts. (pictured above)

Darwin Fick
Dir. Joe Benedetto, 2021, 19 mins.
When a famous author develops writer’s block, an unusual option arises.

Conexion
Dir. Jamin Scotti, 2002, 10 mins.
After fleeing a chaotic family situation, a young woman discovers her True Self, in the vastness of the Mojave desert.

The Jogger
Dir. Daryl Denner, 2002, 7 mins.
A woman’s jog through the park reveals a shocking discovery.

Robot Tells a Joke
Dir. Cameron Strittmatter, 2021, 4 mins. 
A brief and educational video about a young roboticist’s current project.

Artsanity
Dir. Alexandar Kostic, 2022, 14 mins. 
A freelance photographer in New York City suddenly finds himself under a bleak confinement of his own mind. As time passes, he feels the strong sensation of being followed by a mysterious stranger, while the empty city continues to draw him in.

Nothing Is Real
Dir. Masa Gibson, 2021, 4 mins.
Who gets to decide what’s valuable? In this silent short film, a woman lives life with a bold twist.

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Review safety protocols before your visit.