Sci-Fi-London, London
The days when we're getting it on with blue-skinned aliens can't come soon enough for some, but in the meantime you'll find plenty of predictions for humanity 40 years hence here – most of them bad, but ingeniously so. And some of them not so far-fetched. Hungary's Transmission, for example, simply imagines a world where TVs and computers stop working, while 8th Wonderland sees social networkers ganging up on "real" countries, and genetic tinkering breeds bad news for Adrien Brody in Vicenzo Natali's Splice. Less serious are some trashy sci-fi all-nighters, or Bollywood oddity Love Story 2050, which predicts a Mumbai full of crap robots, flying cars and epic dance routines.
Apollo Piccadilly Circus, W1, Wed to 3 May, visit sci-fi-london.com
London Palestine Film Festival, London
With regular blockades and bombardments, it's an achievement to get anything made in Palestine, let alone a full-length feature. What's emerging instead is a steady flow of smaller,...
The days when we're getting it on with blue-skinned aliens can't come soon enough for some, but in the meantime you'll find plenty of predictions for humanity 40 years hence here – most of them bad, but ingeniously so. And some of them not so far-fetched. Hungary's Transmission, for example, simply imagines a world where TVs and computers stop working, while 8th Wonderland sees social networkers ganging up on "real" countries, and genetic tinkering breeds bad news for Adrien Brody in Vicenzo Natali's Splice. Less serious are some trashy sci-fi all-nighters, or Bollywood oddity Love Story 2050, which predicts a Mumbai full of crap robots, flying cars and epic dance routines.
Apollo Piccadilly Circus, W1, Wed to 3 May, visit sci-fi-london.com
London Palestine Film Festival, London
With regular blockades and bombardments, it's an achievement to get anything made in Palestine, let alone a full-length feature. What's emerging instead is a steady flow of smaller,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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