Screening: Dystopian futures / Lawrence Lek & Shezad Dawood

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Programme 1: Dystopian Futures

This event brings together parallel universes, new forms of artificial intelligence and subconscious memories to create a provocative stimulation for both the eye and mind.

Films showing:

Geomancer – Lawrence Lek
46 mins
Heralded by the futuristic computer-generated cityscapes that have become a signature feature of his work, Lawrence Lek’s mini-opus Geomancer is less inclined to map the building blocks of the urban architecture of tomorrow than to try and summon up the spirit of our rapidly dawning age - one whose characteristics, Lek implies, include the growing ascendancy of the cultural phenomenon of Sino-Futurism.
https://buff.ly/2IFd50m

Towards the Possible Film – Shezad Dawood
21 mins
Shezad Dawood’s Towards the Possible Film is a study in parallel universes – and the sparks that fly when worlds collide. As much of a projection into a far-off future as a flashback to a long-forgotten past, Dawood’s vivid 20-minute tableau combines the resonance of a mythic fable with the hallucinatory haziness of a waking dream.
https://buff.ly/2URTmRS

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