Strawberry Mansion – Thursday, February 2nd

Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston and the Boston Sci Fi Film Festival

Directed by Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney, sci-fi, English, USA, 91 minutes, 2022.

In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion? Q&A with director Albert Birney to follow.

SCREENINGS WILL BE HELD ON THURS.,  FEBRUARY 2ND AT 7PM IN THE BRIGHT FAMILY SCREENING ROOM. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM.

TICKETS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED.