SFL_2018_A5_PROGRAMME

WELCOME TO
SCI-FI-LONDON 2018
The festival comes of age this
year, our 18th edition no less.
I am delighted to once again
bring a selection of fantastic
films to the UK. Each year we
are amazed by the quality and
breadth of international science
fiction film, the ideas keep rolling
in.
This festival we wanted to
celebrate the fact that 200
years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley’s Frankenstein, or
the Modern Prometheus was
published. For me, it is really the
first ‘proper’ science fiction novel
and it is amazing that we are still
enchanted by its characters and
moral questions. Our opening
night film, CHIMERA, is by no
means a version of Shelley’s
work but, it does ask one of the
questions she posited: do you
want to live forever? We bring
again to the big screen a film
we first showed over 12 years
ago, SUBJECT TWO. It finds
the subject and the scientist
in the wilderness dealing with
rejuvenation and longevity, again
– who wants to live forever!?
Virtual reality seems to be a
very currrent topic right now
and, of course, we have films
that question the morality of
being able to do what you want
in a VR world. As a counter to
Spielberg’s recent blockbuster,
Ready Player One, we have the
UK premiere of a brutal Russian
film called CENSOR – it puts
characters in a VR world and
asks them to perform the most
amoral things they can think of,
so the programmers can code
them out, after all it’s just pixels...
and no one really got murdered
did they?
Thanks for coming to our 18th,
see you at the bar.
Louis
Louis Savy
Founder and
Festival Director
“OF WHAT A STRANGE NATURE IS KNOWLEDGE! IT CLINGS
TO A MIND WHEN IT HAS ONCE SEIZED ON IT LIKE A LICHEN
ON A ROCK.”
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY