2020: A Pandemic Odyssey

Named Best Science Fiction Film, Brussels Capital Film Festival, Best Experimental Film at Hong Kong Indie Film Festival, San Diego Art Film Festival, World Film Carnival (Singapore), Filmzen International Film Competition (Paris), Portugal Indie Film Festival (Lisbon), Tagore International Film Festival, and Mannheim Arts and Culture Festival.

2020: A Pandemic Odyssey (Or, How I Got Stanley Kubrick Out of My (Solar) System Once and For All) is a re-imagining of Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” set in the annus horribilis of 2020, a year that began with a pandemic and ended with a monolith mysteriously appearing in the Utah desert. We witness these preternatural events from an unearthly vantage point: that of a female astronaut who’s   been aboard the International Space Station since the fall of 2019. As she prepares for the impending voyage home in April of 2020,  she fears she may be returning to “a completely different planet.” Along the way, the film explores Donna Haraway’s concept of the female cyborg, the killer ape hypothesis which informs the “Dawn of Man” sequence in Kubrick’s “2001”, and the toxic masculinity that connects the misogynistic “Gamergate” scandal of 2014 with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th 2021.