Into the World of Tomorrow with the Movie Machine

From the beginning, "How will the future look?" has been a central question for the image-making machine of film. Itself an invention based on mechanization and a belief in progress, film has enabled visions, utopias and fantasies to be designed, livelier than was ever possible before. For us, not only are the stories that are told exciting. We are also interested in how people used to imagine the future, what technical tricks they developed to show the seemingly impossible and how the question of the way we want to live in the future continues to leave its traces on film. (sh)

Presented by Film Museum staff members Anna Dohnalek and Stefan Huber