Welcome to the first round of two months of late night explorations into the world of science fiction, the world's most popular film genre.

For all that we don't have flying cars or hover boards or teleporting (yet!), we are living in an age of impressive technological wonder. With each new development, however, we create new anxieties, new problems, and unforeseen consequences amongst the progress.

Throughout October we will play host to a series of filmic experiments into the effect of science fiction technology on test subjects. How does a lone person survive for three years on their own? How do cohabiting couples get over self-imposed memory loss? Can an alien life form survive Glasgow city centre on a Friday night? And what is superfly Jeff Goldblum doing to himself, and how do we stop it?

Like all the best science fiction, these four films use future scenarios and technology to tell us something about the here and now: loneliness and isolation (Moon), memory and emotion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), anthropology and beauty (Under The Skin) and the wonder and horror of science (The Fly).

Ironically, for films that have mutant insects, killer aliens, shady clones and memory-zapped lovers at their hearts, they all focus on what it is to be human, and on fundamentally human questions. We need your help to answer some of these at the tests and trials we'll be putting on in the Café/Bar before each film - so join us to examine sci-fi's bruised, beating, and beautiful human heart.

The Future is Now Late Nights have been programmed by the Future Producers 2014.

Part of Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, part of the BFI's huge celebration of science fiction, the world's most popular film genre, in Bristol and Beyond. Check watershed.co.uk/scifi for all the latest out of this world events.

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