Fantastic Fest 2023 is from September 21 to 28 and has so many movies that I can’t wait to see. You can learn more about this movie and when it is playing here.

I’m obsessed by the idea of the ancient future, of movies that seem futuristic but were dated even at the time that they were made. Created by Amanda Kramer (Ladyworld) and narrated by Blondie’s Debbie Harry, this film ties together so many of the classics — and maybe not classics — of high tech films. It’s so intriguing to see them in this context, moments playing out and reminding you of a past that we lived through but still feels like a far off dream.

Films in this include 2001: A Space Odyssey, All the President’s Men, Avalon, Blade Runner, Alita: Battle Angel, Arcade, Beyond the Mind’s Eye, Brainscan, Brainstorm, Computer Dreams, Computers In Our Lives, Brilliance, The Cell, Club V.R., The Conversation, Cyperpunk, Cyborg 2, Darkman, D.A.R.Y.L., The Day the Earth Stood Still, Die Hard, Disclosure, Decoder, Don’t Touch Me (With Your Polygons), Double Idemnity, Dr. Strangelove, Emmanuelle In Space 5: A Time to Dream, Electric Dreams, Enemy of the State, Fail Safe, eXistenZ, Fortress, Futureworld, Ghost In the Shell, Freejack, Future Kick, Ghost In the Machine, GoldenEye, Hackers, Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age, I.K.U.,  Hardware, Johnny Mnemonic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jurassic Park, Kiss of Death, The Lawnmower Man, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, The Making of Tron, Level 5, Looker, Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen, The Making of Arcade, Man of Steel, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future, Masterminds, Mindwarp, Mission Impossible, The Net, Nirvana, The Parallax View, Rendez-Vouz In Montreal, RoboCop, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Split, Sneakers, Steel and Lace, Terminal Madness, Synthetic Pleasures, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, The Thirteenth Floor, THX 1138, Total Recall, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Tron, Venus Rising, Videodrome, Virtual Encounters 2, Virtual Girl, Virtual Seduction, Virtual Sex, Virtuosity, WarGames, Weird Science, White Heat and The Wizard of Oz.

If you have any interest in these films, this is perfect.