Meeting Philip – Eric Vernhes

Scottish Premiere

In 1977, Philip K. Dick gave a lecture stating definitively that we live in a computer simulation: for him, the parallel worlds that featured in his novels reflected the innumerable “branches” of a preprogrammed reality. Architect-turned-musician Eric Vernhes became fascinated by this lecture, not for its content, but for what it said about the author’s own troubled psychology. In Meeting Philip, stunning digital visualisations emerge from a reel-to-reel tape deck playing Dick’s lecture – a tribute to an authorial genius that gives his words the epic dimension they deserve.

Supported by Institut Français – Programme International Diffusion Artistique (PIDA) and Institut français d’Écosse.