Film Futurist

Sometimes, you gotta go fishing to get some (read: a lot of) reading done. After all, a futurist must study the future. Be back in a bit.

Over the course of the Egyptian uprising, I began to notice a pattern in the language of the protest signs that gave me pause for thought. I figured if a sign was written in English then it was intended for the eyes of the English-speaking world. So perhaps there is a sense that the world [...]

After all the hoopla about the 3D in James Cameron’s Avatar, and then this week at CES with all the talk about 3D Television, I thought we might take a little walk down the modern art aisle whilst browsing for entertainment. Not as schmaltzy as Avatar, and definitely heavier than most TV programming, Picasso’s Guernica. [...]

I recently saw Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis – a masterwork of the German Expressionist period summarized here by Kino Video after its recent full-length re-release: ”Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of [...]

This is the moment when everything changes. Here and now. This IS the future. Technology and social media has suddenly shifted the ground we filmmakers have been standing on for years. We can sit around and lament the loss of a golden era…or we can figure out how to reinvent film and media art in [...]