Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema Future Visions

Production still from Delivery Dancer's Sphere 2022 / Director: Ayoung Kim / Image courtesy: Oyster Films

Production still from Delivery Dancer's Sphere 2022 / Director: Ayoung Kim / Image courtesy: Oyster Films / View full image

When

10 Jan – 16 Mar 2025

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

Admission

Free

About

‘Future Visions’ showcases a diverse selection of works by filmmakers and moving-image artists from Asia and the Pacific who are combining hallmarks of the science fiction genre with heritage traditions and ancestral stories to reflect on contemporary environmental, political and cultural concerns.

Throughout cinematic history, ‘the future’ has served as a rich playground for filmmakers to explore the imagined, the taboo and the unknown. Today, anthropocentric concerns, including the accelerated rate of climate change, increased migration, and the rapid pace of technological development, have catapulted concerns about the future of the environment, culture and identity into the present, raising questions about the legacies of humankind.

Presented across four interconnected strands titled ‘Ends of the Earth’, ‘Revolutionary Roads’, ‘Random Access Memories’ and ‘Human Evolutions’, the selected films boldly ask the question ‘what if?’ to consider what the movement of humanity — both in terms of geography and evolution — means for our environmental future, our personal and cultural identities, and our memories across the region. Read more about these strands at the bottom of this page.

Presenting Partner:

Program curated by Victoria Wareham, Australian Cinémathèque.

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Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema: Future Visions

The program is presented across four interconnected strands – Ends of the Earth, Revolutionary Roads, Random Access Memories and Human Evolutions.

Ends of the Earth
‘Ends of the Earth’ includes a suite of films that tell of foreboding disaster, both human-made and natural, to highlight the potential risks that further ecological change poses to future generations.

Daihachi Yoshida A Beautiful Star 2017
Um Tae-hwa Concrete Utopia 2023
Riar Rizaldi Fossils 2023
Subash Thebe Limbu Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous 2023
Larissa Sansour In Vitro 2019
Kulikar Sotho, Anysay Keola, Sai Naw Kham, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pham Ngoc Lan Mekong 2030 2020
Makoto Shinkai Suzume 2022

Revolutionary Roads
‘Revolutionary Roads’ features films that explore resistance, rebellion and revolution. From stirring animated dramas to speculative anthologies of futures not yet told, these films move between truth and fiction to comment upon the current state of society and encourage meaningful and lasting change in the present.


Rithy Pahn Everything Will Be Ok 2022
Thaiddhi, Nay Wunn Ni, Myo Thar Khin, Aung Min, Lamin Oo Ten Years Myanmar 2023
Lav Diaz The Halt 2019
Yosep Anggi Noen The Science of Fictions 2019

Random Access Memories
From experimental shorts to docufiction features, ‘Random Access Memories’ includes films that draw from tradition and memory to transgress the constraints of linear time and tell stories about the past from a future viewpoint.

Ayoung Kim Delivery Dancer’s Sphere 2022
Thomas Fairchild Heel 2024
Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong Krabi, 2562 2019
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Memoria 2021
Zike He Random Access 2023
Mattie Do The Long Walk 2019
Yuyan Wang The Moon Also Rises 2022
Trương Minh Quý The Tree House 2019

Human Evolutions
‘Human Evolutions’ features stories of self-discovery that use the veil of science fiction to further understand our being-in-the-world. Moving between narrative features and experimental filmmaking, this selection of films includes an array of visual journeys that boldly venture into unknown territories to explore possible evolutions of humanity.


Sophia Al-Maria Beast Type Song 2019
Naween Noppakun Crazy Lotus 2024
Sin Wai Kin Dreaming the End 2023
Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra, Tristan Jalleh Ex Nilalang: From Creature ~ From Creation 2017
Ivan Sen Loveland 2022
Sin Wai Kin The Fortress 2024
Shu Lea Cheang UKI 2023