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From Björk to Blade Runner 2049: revisioning the future at ACMI

The Future & Other Fictions is a major new exhibition focused on screen culture’s ability to imagine a better world.

2 Oct 2024 13:35

Richard Watts

A young First Nations boy with red and white striped face paint across his brow and a green brimmed hat, and a ragged denim sleeveless jacket roars at the camera. The Future and Other Fictions. the Love Punks, Sutu

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Sutu, The Love Punks and Satellite Sisters, Photo: Chynna Campbell, copyright: Big hART, 2012.

Running from 28 November 2024 to 27 April 2025 at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), The Future & Other Fictions is a new exhibition celebrating screen culture’s role in shaping a more optimistic world.

Imagined futures are often dystopian, as epitomised by George Orwell’s chilling line of dialogue in 1984: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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