SLEEP DEALER
SCIENCE ON SCREEN
ALEX RIVERA | MEXICO, UNITED STATES | 2008 | 90 MIN | PG-13 | SPANISH, ENGLISH
Director Alex Rivera conceives of a world with fortified borders and virtual migrant labor in his Sundance award-winning socio-political examination of technology’s link to the human body and the ethical ramifications of its power over the most vulnerable among us.
Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas
Post-screening Vishnu “Deepu” Murty will lead a discussion titled “Agency and its biological influence on perceptions of the past, present, and future”. Murty is the principal investigator of the Adaptive Memory Lab, which is housed in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University.
Tickets are FREE thanks to our free ticketing program PFS On Us, though donations to Philadelphia Film Society are welcome.