In collaboration with Patricia Pisters (UvA professor Film Studies), Kriterion has developed a program on Eco-Futurism. The challenges of the contemporary world ask for new imaginations of our future planet. The two films in this program present two very different perspectives on our relationship to our environments and our technologies.
— More info & tickets: kriterion.nl/eco-futurism

MACHINI (2019) – Frank Mukunday & Tétshim
Machini is a stop motion animated film produced with the stones from Congo’s mining-sties. Congo has the world’s largest deposits of cobalt and lithium, two of the constituents of electric batteries. In a very moving and poignant way the film presents the perspective of those who produce ‘cleane nergy’ for the future of the world.
— 10 min | Congo Republic, Belgium | French with English subtitles

GLASS GARDEN (2017) – Shin Su-won
In Glass Garden, we encounter Jae-yeon (Moon Geun-Young), a shy biologist who works in a scientific laboratory, experimenting with photosynthetic green blood that could produce its own oxygen and could be a cure against aging and dying on a damaged planet. Moving between speculative science and speculative future, Glass Garden presents an eco-futurist vision of a female Frankenstein who retreats in the forest.
— 116 min | South-Korea | Korean with English subtitles See less