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‘Over Time’ presents stories that forecast future experiences of time. Some draw from advances in current technology to create a sense of near futures, whilst others challenge perceptions of identity and memory as our relationship to space and time becomes further intertwined.

Random Access 2023

Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Group, Random Access by director and media artist Zike He explores the tangible (and intangible) connections between memory and technology.

Set in Guiyang, the capital of China’s Guizhou province and one of the country’s fastest growing technology and data districts, the film imagines an exchange between two characters that occurs during a car ride across the city in the aftermath of an unexpected data crash. Through their conversation, the characters consider the universal scale and infinite possibilities of memory, both in nature and in technology.

14 minutes | All Ages | Very mild science fiction themes

The Moon Also Rises 2024

Yuyan Wang’s short film The Moon Also Rises takes a localised view of planetary change by focusing on minute preparations that are being made by an elderly couple prior to the launch of several artificial moons into space which aim to eliminate the difference between day and night.

Based on an actual project announced by a group of Chinese scientists in 2018, the film serves as a deliberate metaphor for the increased presence of artificial devices in our daily lives and the contemporary endemic of connectivity, visibility and surveillance.

20 minutes | All Ages | Very mild science fiction themes

Delivery Dancer's Sphere 2022

Artist Ayoung Kim’s hybrid live-action, game-engine-animated film Delivery Dancer’s Sphere envisions a techno-futurist Seoul where parcel couriers can achieve increasingly rapid delivery times by manipulating space-time.

An employee of the courier service ‘Deliver Dancer’, driver (or ‘dancer’) Ernst Mo uses a gamified system to algorithmically generate delivery routes across the city to help her meet her targets. As Ernst’s delivery schedule begins to intensify, she encounters an alternative version of herself, suggesting that the repetitive manipulation of time and space has led to an irreversible split of her consciousness across the space-time continuum.

Inspired by an increased dependence on courier services following the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Kim’s experimental short film is an exploration of gig economy and platform labour as a result of our growing engagement with cyberspace.

25 minutes | All Ages | Very mild science fiction themes