Labor: Sleep Dealer / Advantageous

The fraught and highly dependent relationship between humans and technology is fundamental to the science fiction film. In futures where humans must sacrifice their identity, both mental and physical, to support the hyper-productivity of a techno-capitalist world order that finds them disposable, humanity and the mechanical become intertwined. In these worlds, memories of history and dreams of a homelife and homeland are haunting symbols of what makes humans unique in their desire for love, passion, nurturing family lineage and self-determination.

Join the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with UCLA Cinema & Media Studies Program for a night of time travel as part of their PST ART: Art & Science Collide film series Science Fiction Against the Margins.

Screenings include Robots of Brixton (Kibwe Tavares), Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera), and Advantageous (Jennifer Phang).

Introduction by filmmaker Kibwe Tavares. Q&A with filmmakers Jennifer Phang and Alex Rivera moderated by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.