London ’s British Film Institute is running an awful serial of program in July about how movies depict the hereafter of humanity . When they show 2001 , it will be accompanied by a live orchestra ! Check outtheir program of events .
For July we proceed to a substantial survey of scientific discipline fiction in pic and idiot box that reflects one of our most compelling preoccupation : how human experience and order will germinate in the future tense .
Focusing on work that owe more to serious speculation than to outright fantasy , the excerpt explore notions of real and artificial life-time , exemption and oppression , consciousness and remembering , imagination and desire . The wallop of new technologies is a prevalent theme , of course , and the fusion of creative thinker , body and machine a repeated topic . Repeatedly , the picture ask what it really means to be human : the reaction to that philosophical enigma is intriguingly varied , in films from Siegel ’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Tarkovsky ’s Solaris and Woody Allen ’s Sleeper – or , next month , from Cameron ’s The Terminator to Herzog ’s The Wild Blue Yonder .
Also present is the influence of some darkly dystopian literature : HG Wells ’ speculations on the effects of world war in William Cameron Menzies ’ Things To arrive , Ray Bradbury ’s characterization of a Koran - burning society in Truffaut ’s Fahrenheit 451 ; and Anthony Burgess ’s agitate societal comment in Kubrick ’s controversial A Clockwork Orange .
The BFI is locatedin London ’s Southbank , and that is where most of the viewing and events will take place .
Find out BFI Future Human series .
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