Future Look

A short film of a couple of simple conversations between friends of the future.

What do you want of your world?

This was the final project for a self-disciplinary class called VISA 382U 001: "Advanced Practice in Media Arts."

When imagining the future, all sorts of ideas start to float in people’s minds. From questions about the state of the world to our relations with those around us, the future is an endless void that elicits a constant flow of imagination. What types of discussions do people have within this endless void? Are there similar ideas of the future like those from the distant past and even distant future?

Within my piece, “Future Look,” I examine a few simple conversations between friends and what they imagine of the future. Through this process, a correlation appears through the different time periods. While they may feel like completely separate worlds with new technologies, states of the natural world and so on, they are all still part of the same world. My work aims to view these similarities and differences.

The greatest take-away that I want from my work is to question the internal lives that we all have in relation to the lives of others and the external world. Multiple aspects of our lives throw us into these small worlds that we identify as who we are. They comprise the physical and societal world, and the relations with individuals around us. Such internal identities keep us stuck from imagining the worlds that others live in. My work will reveal people’s perspectives and desires from their own identities in contrast to the identities of those around us within the reality of the changing, external world.