Series

5X Series

The 5X Series presents five films by influential and innovative filmmakers who are no longer with us. 5X opens a window into the creative worlds of a wide variety of filmmakers: some who may be well-known, but whose more diverse work is overlooked; some whose work has been underappreciated; some whose work requires reappraisal; and many, many more. While these filmmakers may be gone, 5X examines how their lasting cinematic influence is still felt.

5X: Philip K. Dick

Widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative speculative fiction writers of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick’s work is distinguished by its multiform explorations of reality, identity, technology, consciousness, and the fundamental nature of the human experience. 

Often utilizing dystopian or altered realities, philosophical inquiry, intellectual depth, and psychological complexity, his work has long served as a fertile canvas for cinematic adaptation. The films in this series—adapted from his writings—embrace Dick’s visionary ideas around the questionable nature of reality; implications of technology and surveillance; the tension between free will and predestination; and questions about empathy, consciousness, and moral agency.