Future Shocks

This event has already taken place and ended on 29 Aug 2009

An evening of artists films (from Stan Vanderbeek, Dara Birnbaum, Len Lye and more), retro-futurist music videos and a rare screening of the film of Alvin Toffler's infamous futurological treatise, Future Shock, in which Orson Welles outlines the onrushing horrors of technological advance as seen from 1972 (including an uncredited Vanderbeek). Embrace or denounce the technological future gone past with these cut outs, cut ups, comic books, clunky computers and a healthy dose of hysteria. 

1hr approx

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Futurology Film & Events Programme

Futurology is the cultural investigation into how representations of the future affect the present. At Arnolfini it is presented as a research and exhibitions programme investigating envisionings of the future, looking at the role of architecture and the infrastructure of the built environment within this.

The Futurology exhibition programme, starts with The Good Life and continues with Tommy Støckel and Sequelism later in 2009.

www.futurologyprogramme.org