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. 

Screenings include:

March 27, 7pm: Blade Runner (Final Cut) | Los Angeles, The Future: Tyrell Corp technologies run the city through their replicant program. When four replicants go rogue, a blade runner is tasked with tracking them down and in the process uncovers the dark truth about Tyrell's utopic technology.

April 3, 7pm: Blade Runner 2049 | 30 years after the events of Blade Runner, LAPD Officer K unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos.

April 10, 7pm: Total Recall | What happens when you combine the frenetic direction and satirical mind of Paul Verhoeven with the imagination of Philip K. Dick? A futuristic, fast-paced rush that never slacks.

April 17, 7pm: Screamers | During an interplanetary war, a military commander is charged with negotiating a fragile peace, but his mission is threatened when the primitive robots built to kill enemy combatants gain sentience. 30th anniversary screening.

April 24, 7pm: Minority Report | In the future, the PreCrime unit stops crimes before they happen. But when the unit's leader finds himself framed for a future murder, he uncovers a sprawling controversy that threatens the program, the city, and the safety of everyone in it.