Panel: Future-making Methodologies

Jared Epp, Johannes Sjöberg, Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Rajat Nayyar, Rana El Kadi

Thu, 18-May-23 10:30 AM
Rajat Nayyar is an anthro­pol­o­gist and film­mak­er who is cur­rent­ly a SSHRC Vanier Schol­ar and a PhD Can­di­date in The­ater at York Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the co-founder of Emer­gent Futures CoLab (EFC) through … read more

SPA SYBARITE

Joshua Ashish Dawson
USA 2022 | 3 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Joshua Ashish Dawson (via Zoom), Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
“Cli­mate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st cen­tu­ry.” (Lancet Cli­mate Change Com­mis­sion 2009) This sci-fi short film takes action and drafts a future well­ness par­adise. Taking … read more

MUSIC, SOUND, NOISE

Jared Epp
Canada 2022 | 16 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Jared Epp, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
A cau­tion­ary tale on the end­less entan­gling of infor­ma­tion shar­ing, social media, mean­ing and daily life, and as well, a satire on the anthro­pol­o­gist as col­o­niz­er of knowledge.  Dr. Carlos … read more

VICTIMS OF AN ANOMALY

Levente Huszka
Hungary 2022 | 30 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Levente Huszka, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)

Caused by a dimen­sion anom­aly, mil­lions of people have exchanged places with their alter egos from par­al­lel uni­vers­es. A few years after, the Anom­aly Foun­da­tion was found­ed to inte­grate new­com­ers into soci­ety. In their aware­ness rais­ing cam­paign movie four alter egos were inter­viewed to tell their sto­ries. They con­fess frankly what they have won and what they have lost after being trans­posed to this world. - An enthu­si­as­tic approach to create some­thing solely char­ac­ter-driven: an absur­dis­tic mock­u­men­tary short about our rela­tion to hidden desires and the spec­trum of self-accep­tance. 

Lev­ente Huszka holds an MFA in Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture from Eötvös Loránd Uni­ver­si­ty, Budapest. Cur­rent­ly he works for Gen­er­al Elec­tric as an HR Spe­cial­ist facil­i­tat­ing Induc­tion train­ings, also trans­lat­ing offi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion and par­tak­ing in sim­pli­fi­ca­tion projects. He plays at Fórum Tár­su­lat’s Improv The­atre as an ama­teur actor, also work­ing on short film projects at Kultúr Krimó, includ­ing HALLOJARAT (inter­views with artists of the Hun­gar­i­an alter­na­tive music scene). 

PARADISE

Alexander Abaturov
France, Switzerland 2022 | 88 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 04:00 PM
Q&A via Zoom with:
Alexander Abaturov
The vil­lage of Shol­o­gon is locat­ed in the taiga in north­east­ern Siberia. An extreme heat wave ignit­ed fierce forest fires in the remote region two years ago. At first, res­i­dents … read more

CHILDREN OF THE MIST
(Những đứa trẻ trong sương)

Hà Lệ Diễm
Vietnam 2021 | 90 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 07:30 PM
Q&A with:
Hà Lệ Diễm
We are in a moun­tain vil­lage of the Hmong, mem­bers of an ethnic minor­i­ty in north­west Viet­nam. For three years, Hà Lệ Diễm has come here again and again, befriend­ing … read more

ALL THAT BREATHES

Shaunak Sen
India 2022 | 91 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 13-May-23 07:30 PM

Thu, 18-May-23 10:00 PM
Q&A via zoom with:
Ben Bernhard, Shaunak Sen
Some days, the black kites lit­er­al­ly drop from the sky—the air pol­lu­tion in Delhi, India, can be so intense that flocks of the birds fall to earth. If they’re lucky, … read more