THE ELEVEN TOMORROWS & F3 - Futures Film Festival conceived by David Lindsay-Wright (PhD)
Film Review By David Lindsay-Wright TITLE: The Eleven Tomorrows FORMAT: Collaborative portmanteau flash
on the futures of this emerging world city. The film will explore how different
soothsaying in contrast to the emerging tech of big data, social media, virtual
fictions feature film (90 minutes)
locations and the peoples who live there,
worlds, AI, surveillance, robots, drones
GENRE: a place-based futures film
approach, understand and engage in the
and the other usual techno-utopia/
PRODUCTION: Brisbane Movie Makers +
future in different ways. Take Brisbane,
dystopia suspects; futures indifference;
TExT-TUBE FUTURES STUDIOS
with its convict history and its in-the-
conflicting perspectives on time and
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David
shadow inferiority complex vis-à-vis
futures; sexuality and bodies; futures-
Lindsay-Wright & Peter Waterman
the grander iconic cities of Sydney and
oriented jobs – from professional
(President, BMM)
Melbourne, Brisbanites tend to think of
Futurists to micro-weather forecasters;
SCREENPLAY: 11 stories, 11 writers/directors
the future as something that happens
futures neuroses – fear, phobias; humour
elsewhere. But my sense as an outsider
in the future; transhumanism and
LAUNCH: March 1, 2022 – World Future Day
to this exceptionally multi-cultural city,
posthumanism; and potentially any other
TITLE: f3 - futures film festival at the
is that there are futures begging to
futures issue the writers-directors have a
Elizabeth Street Five-Star Cinema.
be released f rom the local story-pool
passion for storifying.
LAUNCH: March 1, 2023 – World Future Day
with The Eleven Tomorrows the vehicle
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to facilitate the liberation of those
either stylistically or thematically include
suppressed stories of other futures.
MANIFESTO with its 13 personas all
HE Eleven Tomorrows, which will official launch on World Future
Originally, the concept for The Eleven
Films that inform The Eleven Tomorrows
played by Kate Blanchett, David Byrne’s
Tomorrows came from Jim Jarmusch’s
TRUE STORIES, Jim Jarmusch’s COFFEE
my personal frustration while writing
Coffee & Cigarettes with its conversation-
& CIGARETTES - featuring multiple
the scripts for multiple futures flash
driven vignettes, chiefly around music-
conversation-based stories predominantly
fictions and finding myself not being
related themes. The Eleven Tomorrows
with well-known American musicians,
able to travel to shoot the multi-location
flash fictions will comprise fiction, some
Jane Campion’s PASSIONLESS MOMENTS;
screenplays. This eventually led me to
nonfiction, experimental, and blurred
Fellini’s surrealist masterpiece ROMA;
the decision to shoot f rom where I was,
pieces. Uniquely, the 11 writer-directors
Robert Altman’s 1993 American comedy-
Brisbane Australia. I filtered out what I
will not know what the other stories are
drama SHORT CUTS, and Japanese director
considered the best of my 100+ futures
and will only get to see all 11 films once at
Akira Kurosawa’s magic-realist DREAMS
fictions and decided to adapt them to my
the premiere screening on March 1, 2023 -
(1990), to name but a few.
Brisbane base, making this city the story-
World Future Day.
Day, March 1, 2022, emerged from
The 11 flash fiction futures films that
Futures themes suggested to the
synergistically emerge from The Eleven
was at this point that I became a member
BMM writers and directors include the
Tomorrows project, will be premiered at
of an intriguing group of filmmakers –
futures of our universe and humanity’s
f3, a futures film festival, slated for March
Brisbane Movie Makers – and made a
role therein; global and localized
1, 2023. It is hoped that f3 will welcome
further decision suggesting to make The
environments; indigenous and multi-
an international audience that includes
Eleven Tomorrows a collaboration with 11
cultural futures; end of life and end
members of the World Futures Studies
members of the BMM as a portmanteau
of world stories; ancient versus 21st
Federation as well as other futures and
film featuring 11 writers-directors, 11 ‘takes’
century futures such as divination and
filmmaking communities around the world.
world for the 11 selected futures stories. It
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