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Les Maîtres du Temps [1982]

Friday June 18 | 8 – 11 PM | $7–10 sliding scale

Skywhales [1983]
Runtime: 11 min | Language: Alien | Country: United Kingdom | Color: Colour
IMDb Link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0228867/

Director: Phil Austin and Derek W. Hayes

Funky short animation from 1983 by Phil Austin and Derek Hayes depicting aliens living their lives on a floating jungle island in the upper layers of a gas giant planet. The film is notable for the completeness of its depiction of a fictitious society, including alien language, flora, fauna, and social structures and practices. Flying Whales, Tribal Rythms, Jar-Jar eat your heart out!

Les Maîtres du Temps (a.k.a. Masters of Time) [1982]
Runtime: 75 mins | Language: French (English subtitle files) | Country: France/Switzerland/Germany/Hungary | Color: Colour (Animation)
IMDb Link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0084315/

Director: René Laloux (Fantastic Planet)

From the director of “La Planète Sauvage” (1973) a.k.a. “Fantastic Planet” with stunning visuals and an amazing soundtrack by Moebius (Jean Giraud), comes a slick, well-paced sci-fi animation of a world only imagined by Laloux and beautifully conceived by Giraud. Killer Insects, Radical Drones, and Telepathic Space Cherubs? Awesome.

Nominated for the “Best Animated Film” in the 1983 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films “Saturn Award”. René Laloux & Jean Giraud won “Best Children’s Film” in the 1982 Fantafestival for Les Maîtres du Temps.

Piel, a little boy, is left marooned on the planet Perdide after both his parents have been killed by giant hornet-like aliens. Thankfully an emergency transmitter provides him with instantaneous communication with Jaffar, an adventurer who was a friend of his father. This Jaffar convinces the current passengers on his ship, an exiled prince and princess, that a rescue mission must be undertaken. Its a long way to Perdide though, so Jaffar first picks up an old technician who knows that planet. Together with two telepathic aliens they start their mission to save Piel, all the time talking to the boy and trying to avoid him walking into danger. But on the way to Perdide, Jaffar and his friends encounter a lot of trouble themselves, including a hive of malignant angels and what seems to be a traitor in their midst

Preceded by more fantastic 80′s animated sci-fi shorts TBA!

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