Fear or Wonder - Everything Under The Moon
Oct 28, 2014 10:59:41 GMT -5
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We shall not be going to this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, but it ends with a discussion of whether utopian and dystopian visions of our planet inspire us with fear or wonder.
Sage Gateshead - BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: Fear or Wonder - Everything Under The Moon
To be honest, I am no sci-fi fanatic, so I would probably go for fear rather than wonder, but at the BFI, sci-fi is presented across three themes that identify the unique characteristics and concerns of this remarkably diverse genre: Tomorrow’s World, Altered States and Contact! Tomorrow’s World hurls us into the future where technology has changed everything. How do we distinguish the speculative fiction of our nearest futures and the science fiction of our fantasies? Visions of the future and futures passed will include Fritz Lang’s seminal Metropolis (1927), William Cameron Menzies’ Things to Come (1936), Joseph Losey’s The Damned (1961), Jean-Luc Godard‘s New Wave offering Alphaville (1965), Franklin J. Schaffner’s The Planet of the Apes (1968), George Miller’s Mad Max II: Road Warrior (1981), Terry Gilliam’s surreal masterpiece Brazil (1985) and the dystopian vision from Margaret Atwood’s novel in Volker Schlöndorff’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1990). I did see one sci-fi film: Metropolis, but did not really like it!
Altered States takes us inside the science fiction of the mind and body on adventures in ‘inner- space’. Mad scientists, mutants, man-machines and mind-bending trips will be taken with films that get under the skin of what it is to be human and into the minds of our monsters including Robert Stevenson’s The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936), John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966), starring Rock Hudson, David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984), Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Michel Gondry’s emotive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
Contact! is made, and things are never quite the same again. Science fiction and humankind’s drive to explore and exploit new frontiers can lead to trouble – and things tend not to be any better when we take visitors from distant worlds. Films which question whether we are alone in the cosmos, and whether the cosmos would be better off without us, will include Wallett Waller’s A Message From Mars (1913), Byron Haskin’s War of the Worlds (1953), Fred Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (1956), Roy Ward Baker’s Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running (1972), Steven Spielberg’s chilling Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); there will be an Extended Run of Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and screenings of Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake starring Donald Sutherland, Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), Robert Zemeckis’ Contact (1997) and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters (2010).
Inside Afrofuturism takes a cinematic trip into the vast, genre-bending universe of black science fiction, techno culture and magic realism. Special events include a Sonic Cinema weekend marking the centenary of the birth of the cosmic ambassador Sun-Ra, alongside screenings of John Coney’s Space is the Place (1974), and Shirley Clarke’s Ornette Coleman: Made in America (1985). Further highlights include John Akomfrah’s essential Afrofuturism primer The Last Angel of History (1996), John Sayles’ cult slave-narrative update The Brother from Another Planet, Lizzie Borden’s dystopian punk diorama Born in Flames (1983), Haile Gerima’s time-shifting allegory Sankofa (1993), and Terence Nance’s dazzlingly creative debut An Oversimplification of her Beauty (2013); curated by Ashley Clark.
BFI Southbank’s regular film/music event Sonic Cinema will be presenting a series of special Sci-Fi themed live experiences. Master of the movie-mash up, DJ Yoda, has been commissioned to create a new show. ‘DJ Yoda Goes to the Sci-Fi Movies’ which will world premiere in November. Another world premiere will be the eagerly anticipated new album from UK composer John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino, entitled ‘Evidence of Time Travel’ which will be performed live with specially made visuals by Karborn, while the BBC Radiophonic Workshop will perform a specially arranged Sci-Fi set to celebrate their great contribution to TV Sci-Fi, playing to clips of some rare archive classics and current favourites and all in 5.1 surround sound in December.
Filmed in Supermarionation (2014) will premiere on 30th September as a curtain raiser for the season. Stephen La Rivière’s tribute to the pioneering work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, creators of some of the UK’s most successful and iconic Sci-Fi film and television, will include a panel event with the director and key contributors. The time-defying Primer (2004) will be followed by a Q&A with director Shane Carruth. And some of the greatest ever Sci-Fi TV programmes will be in the spotlight, including Out of the Unknown, The Quatermass Experiment & Doomwatch, and we will celebrate the cult hit Blake’s Seven at a very special event.
BFI - Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder
Sage Gateshead - BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: Fear or Wonder - Everything Under The Moon
To be honest, I am no sci-fi fanatic, so I would probably go for fear rather than wonder, but at the BFI, sci-fi is presented across three themes that identify the unique characteristics and concerns of this remarkably diverse genre: Tomorrow’s World, Altered States and Contact! Tomorrow’s World hurls us into the future where technology has changed everything. How do we distinguish the speculative fiction of our nearest futures and the science fiction of our fantasies? Visions of the future and futures passed will include Fritz Lang’s seminal Metropolis (1927), William Cameron Menzies’ Things to Come (1936), Joseph Losey’s The Damned (1961), Jean-Luc Godard‘s New Wave offering Alphaville (1965), Franklin J. Schaffner’s The Planet of the Apes (1968), George Miller’s Mad Max II: Road Warrior (1981), Terry Gilliam’s surreal masterpiece Brazil (1985) and the dystopian vision from Margaret Atwood’s novel in Volker Schlöndorff’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1990). I did see one sci-fi film: Metropolis, but did not really like it!
Altered States takes us inside the science fiction of the mind and body on adventures in ‘inner- space’. Mad scientists, mutants, man-machines and mind-bending trips will be taken with films that get under the skin of what it is to be human and into the minds of our monsters including Robert Stevenson’s The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936), John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966), starring Rock Hudson, David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984), Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Michel Gondry’s emotive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
Contact! is made, and things are never quite the same again. Science fiction and humankind’s drive to explore and exploit new frontiers can lead to trouble – and things tend not to be any better when we take visitors from distant worlds. Films which question whether we are alone in the cosmos, and whether the cosmos would be better off without us, will include Wallett Waller’s A Message From Mars (1913), Byron Haskin’s War of the Worlds (1953), Fred Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (1956), Roy Ward Baker’s Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running (1972), Steven Spielberg’s chilling Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); there will be an Extended Run of Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and screenings of Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake starring Donald Sutherland, Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), Robert Zemeckis’ Contact (1997) and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters (2010).
Inside Afrofuturism takes a cinematic trip into the vast, genre-bending universe of black science fiction, techno culture and magic realism. Special events include a Sonic Cinema weekend marking the centenary of the birth of the cosmic ambassador Sun-Ra, alongside screenings of John Coney’s Space is the Place (1974), and Shirley Clarke’s Ornette Coleman: Made in America (1985). Further highlights include John Akomfrah’s essential Afrofuturism primer The Last Angel of History (1996), John Sayles’ cult slave-narrative update The Brother from Another Planet, Lizzie Borden’s dystopian punk diorama Born in Flames (1983), Haile Gerima’s time-shifting allegory Sankofa (1993), and Terence Nance’s dazzlingly creative debut An Oversimplification of her Beauty (2013); curated by Ashley Clark.
BFI Southbank’s regular film/music event Sonic Cinema will be presenting a series of special Sci-Fi themed live experiences. Master of the movie-mash up, DJ Yoda, has been commissioned to create a new show. ‘DJ Yoda Goes to the Sci-Fi Movies’ which will world premiere in November. Another world premiere will be the eagerly anticipated new album from UK composer John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino, entitled ‘Evidence of Time Travel’ which will be performed live with specially made visuals by Karborn, while the BBC Radiophonic Workshop will perform a specially arranged Sci-Fi set to celebrate their great contribution to TV Sci-Fi, playing to clips of some rare archive classics and current favourites and all in 5.1 surround sound in December.
Filmed in Supermarionation (2014) will premiere on 30th September as a curtain raiser for the season. Stephen La Rivière’s tribute to the pioneering work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, creators of some of the UK’s most successful and iconic Sci-Fi film and television, will include a panel event with the director and key contributors. The time-defying Primer (2004) will be followed by a Q&A with director Shane Carruth. And some of the greatest ever Sci-Fi TV programmes will be in the spotlight, including Out of the Unknown, The Quatermass Experiment & Doomwatch, and we will celebrate the cult hit Blake’s Seven at a very special event.
BFI - Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder