​Schedule

​7:00 PM: doors open
7:15 PM: the film screening begins
9:00 PM: the screening end
9:00 PM till late: hanging out

​The screening will happen in the hall of Newspeak House while on the first floor there will be Newspeak House's Ration Club — a weekly community dinner. We'll probably take a short 5 minute pause during the screening to get food.

​The film runs for 1 hour and 40 minutes. We then hang out among ourselves and with Ration Club attendees.

​Synopsis from Wikipedia

​A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater; it is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-tech police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic.

​The film was shot digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope, an animation technique in which animators trace over the original footage frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films, giving the finished result a distinctive animated look. Principal photography began on May 17, 2004, and lasted six weeks.