A Year of Tomorrows is a large scale public art work that will occur in New York over the time span of a year. 365 science fiction films will be selected and screened over 365 days over 365 locations in the city. In a nutshell, the project is formulated as a compound experience of the diverse urban fabric of New York, the spectrum of science fiction cinema produced in the last eighty years and the repetitive nature of time.
The films will include : Fahrenheit 451, Privilege, Minority Report, Blade Runner, The Woman in the Dunes, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Solaris, The Dark Side of the Moon, Time of the Wolf, Trouble Every Day - and many more - all 365 films will be listed prior to the start of the program via a conceptual device of having the titles of the films flash out as LED lights at the different sites of the screenings for a duration of 1 month.
Cheap posters will be produced and placed everywhere in New York. These will be huge and prominent, like giant daily reminders, changing. All the time.
Each night's screening will be introduced by a filmmaker, an artist, a curator, a writer, a philosopher, an academic, an actor or someone who is a public figure of some sort, but never the filmmaker of the film itself. The selection will be made via a network of people who will figure out who is most suitable for the introduction.
A Facebook group will be created with a weekly update of the upcoming films and the introducers will be named in this way.
A Youtube group will be created to create a database of all the trailers of the films and the dates and locations stated along with it.
A Google Maps group will be created to spot all the different locations of the screenings.
Perhaps a tie-up with iPhone to create an application to remind people of the screenings each day.
A Year of Tomorrows is a large scale public art work that will occur in New York over the time span of a year. 365 science fiction films will be selected and screened over 365 days over 365 locations in the city. In a nutshell, the project is formulated as a compound experience of the diverse urban fabric of New York, the spectrum of science fiction cinema produced in the last eighty years and the repetitive nature of time.
The films will include : Fahrenheit 451, Privilege, Minority Report, Blade Runner, The Woman in the Dunes, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Solaris, The Dark Side of the Moon, Time of the Wolf, Trouble Every Day - and many more - all 365 films will be listed prior to the start of the program via a conceptual device of having the titles of the films flash out as LED lights at the different sites of the screenings for a duration of 1 month.
Cheap posters will be produced and placed everywhere in New York. These will be huge and prominent, like giant daily reminders, changing. All the time.
Each night's screening will be introduced by a filmmaker, an artist, a curator, a writer, a philosopher, an academic, an actor or someone who is a public figure of some sort, but never the filmmaker of the film itself. The selection will be made via a network of people who will figure out who is most suitable for the introduction.
A Facebook group will be created with a weekly update of the upcoming films and the introducers will be named in this way.
A Youtube group will be created to create a database of all the trailers of the films and the dates and locations stated along with it.
A Google Maps group will be created to spot all the different locations of the screenings.
Perhaps a tie-up with iPhone to create an application to remind people of the screenings each day.