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SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10, 5:00PM to 7:00PM

THE GENDERCATOR
USA, 15 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: CATHERINE CROUCH
The Gendercator is a short satirical take on female body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip van Winkle” model to extrapolate from the past into a possible future. Sally, a lesbian from the '70's, wakes up in 2048 to a world where people are either male or female heterosexuals.

SOCKET
USA, 90 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: SEAN ABLEY
A dark and sexual sci-fi thriller, Socket tells the story of Bill (Derek Long), a surgeon who is struck by lightning and winds up recovering in his own hospital. There he meets an intern named Craig (Matthew Montgomery), who suffered the same natural accident and has developed an appetite for electrical voltage and Bill finds he has the same craving. Craig introduces him to an underground group of people who all share this addiction, and Bill comes up with a method of inserting electric sockets and prongs into the members' wrists so they can "juice up". But after Bill accidentally discovers that he can mainline electricity from living people, he becomes hooked on absorbing this particular kind of power.