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

“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 the form of a com­mer­cial adver­tise­ment, SPA SYBARITE sheds light on dis­as­ter cap­i­tal­ism, where com­pa­nies use a crisis like cli­mate change as an oppor­tu­ni­ty for profit.  

Joshua Ashish Dawson is an Indian-born, archi­tect-trained World builder, Nar­ra­tive design­er, and award-win­ning film­mak­er based in Los Ange­les. He received a Master’s in Advanced Archi­tec­tur­al Stud­ies from the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. His Mas­ter’s thesis was advised by the BAFTA-nom­i­nat­ed direc­tor Shekhar Kapur. He has trained under Pritzk­er Prize-win­ning archi­tect Balkr­ish­na Doshi as well as Hol­ly­wood pro­duc­tion design­er Alex McDow­ell. This com­bi­na­tion has led him to explore the craft­ing of alter­na­tive future worlds as an alle­gor­i­cal device to cri­tique and study the present-day con­di­tions of the built envi­ron­ment through cin­e­mat­ic visu­al­iza­tion.  

 

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

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 … read more

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

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

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