Short Films, Big Ideas: The Science of Science Fiction
Release Date
2013
Film Synopsis
The Seattle Science Festival presents five favorites from Seattle's own Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival, introduced by a pair of scientists delving into the facts behind the sci-fi.
The short films featured include Small Time about a cocky, young student who discovers time travel, leading to a rivalry with his professor; Time Freak, in which a neurotic inventor creates a time machine only to get lost traveling around yesterday; Chorebot about a robot servant and a dog who don't notice when their human owner mysteriously disappears; Oliver Bump's Birthday about a boy who discovers he's going to die on the eve of his 13th birthday, unless his mysterious plan can save him; and Project Panacea, in which a young scientist has discovered a revolutionary disease treatment alone in his basement.