We headed back to the Roxie this week for a little sci-fi at the Indiefest Another Hole in the Head festival, courtesy of director Richard Schenkman and writer Jerome Bixby, who’s known also for the Twilight Zone and Star Trek.

We can’t say much without spoiling this one for you, but we can tell you that it was not what we’d expected. is a sort of coming out for Jonathan Oldman, a former caveman (among many other things), one that he has waited nearly 14,000 years to do. The audience for Oldman’s coming out is a real mixed bag of academics, who greet his revelations with awe, skepticism, and even anger at times, in addition to many questions of their own.

If you want to ponder the prospect of regenerative life and more, Man from Earth shows again at the Roxie on Wednesday, June 13 at 7:15 p.m. And if you love the works of Mr. Schenkman, he's got another movie premiering at the Black Film Festival later this week. Prolific!

Director Richard Schenkman shared a few of his thoughts with us re: the film and more, prior to the film. You can read our interview with him following the jump (plus -- a preview of his other movie opening later this week.)

Still from The Man From Earth. SFist Wendy, contributing.

Man from Earth