Fantastic Planet, Sydney Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival opens at Dendy Newtown from October 29 and runs until November 5.

But we launch one week earlier! Blasting off from Sydney's home of cult cinema: The Mu-Meson Archives!

Don't miss the Australian premiere of two of the most thought provoking offerings from the current wave of indie sci-fi cinema, exclusive to the Mu-Meson archives!

Earthling: Judith is a teacher going through a crisis. She can’t get pregnant, and it's causing a rift in her life. Meanwhile, on an orbital space platform, a crew picks up a strange object during a routine mission. It appears to be an alien seed pod. One of the astronauts comes into contact with the seed, triggering an electro-magnetic pulse that causes a global brown-out on Earth.

Judith is drastically affected. Dreams begin. She's haunted by visions of the astronaut who encountered the pod. Eventually a group of people who have been having the same dream locate her. Together they slowly remember their long-forgotten origins: they are members of a stranded alien race, living on Earth disguised as humans. Now, they must band together to seek out the seed, which may be their only way back home. Earthling is a beautifully layered examination of love, madness, and what it means to be human.


Depositarios: In the near future, medicine and genetic engineering have achieved the end to human pain: by filtering it into clones created expressly for that purpose. Known as "despoitaries" the clones are condemned to a vegetative life of suffering.

Two detectives - members of a special police squad responsible for combating crimes related to this new technology - find themselves embroiled in two intertwined cases: the fetishistic kidnapping of a depositary (by the rejected lover of the depositary's original owner), and the revolutionary actions of an underground group morally opposed to the creation and abuse of the depositaries. Depositarios delivers sci-fi thrills while simultaneously examining the ethical dilemmas presented by rapidly advancing genetic technology.

Tickets only $10 at the door.

Door opens 7:30pm for 8:00pm start.

The Mu-Meson Archives is located: Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale, at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.

Phone (02) 9517-2010 for further details.

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