Festival of the Future 2024 - Inspiring films, try digital production and costume design insights
Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee's flagship festival programme that celebrates and enhances collaboration between science, arts, and culture. The festival is a celebration of how science, art and culture can inspire in equal measure, and how creative collaborations can help change our lives for the better.
The festival theme for 2024 is Connections.
From 9-13 October, there's an exciting programme of events including films and conversations exploring the interconnectedness between people and cultures, health and wellbeing, nature, technology and ideas.
Take a look at the full programme and here are all the films and related conversations.
Arrival
9th October 2024, DCA
Witness the gripping tale of linguistics professor Louise Banks as she leads an elite team of investigators striving to communicate with gigantic spaceships that touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to talk with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Dune) and featuring a critically-acclaimed central performance from Amy Adams, Arrival was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, ultimately winning one for its spectacular sound editing.
Following the film, delve deeper into the themes of ‘connections’ by joining a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring researchers from the University of Dundee including Dr Susan Mains, Keith Williams, Dr Hannah Loret and Senga Robertson-Albertyn.
Book tickets at DCA website.
Gastromancy
9th October 2024
Featuring film, audio, performance and sculptural works, this body of work considers how we can listen to our bodies to predict the future. Rooted in lived experience of chronic pain, these visual and audio compositions are drawn from scientific research and folklore imagery. This work is a sound bath of sonic descriptions of the gut-brain axis and aims to discuss the wider socio-economic implications of gut health, patient experience and the dangers of ignoring our gut-feelings.Featuring film, audio, performance and sculptural works, this body of work considers how we can listen to our bodies to predict the future. Rooted in lived experience of chronic pain, these visual and audio compositions are drawn from scientific research and folklore imagery. This work is a sound bath of sonic descriptions of the gut-brain axis and aims to discuss the wider socio-economic implications of gut health, patient experience and the dangers of ignoring our gut-feelings.
And read more about Fay's story at Digital Dundee.
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The Two Coins
11th October 2024
As part of University of Dundee’s Black History Month and Festival of the Future, we are hosting a film screening of ‘The Two Coins: Meditations on Trade’, created Graeme Mortimer Evelyn, a multi-media visual artist and curator. The film is a thought-provoking, unprejudiced and critically acclaimed video essay on Transatlantic slavery and its long-term global influences. There will be engaging conversations with Graeme about the inspiration for his work. Graeme is internationally renowned for creating work that is situated in municipal buildings, sites of memory and places of worship that subvert these settings and philosophies.
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Costume Design and Film - In Conversation with Jane Petrie
11th October 2024
An enlightening In Conversation event with Film and TV Costume Designer Jane Petrie and Professor Anita Taylor, Artist and Dean of Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Jane's credits include The King, How I Live Now, The Constant Gardener, Star Wars and The Outlaw King that was shot on location in the Fife Tay region.
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Design your own Moving Meta Human - dance meets tech
12th October 2024
Get ready to unleash your creativity! Blend dance with technology to create your own moving meta human.
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