(Summer Film Series) Screening the Apocalypse, Projecting Utopia—Cinema and the Futures Dare to Desire
Wednesdays, 8PM EST (July 30 - August 20, 2025) (Virtual)
It’s the end of the world as we know it—we might as well enjoy some great films.
In this global film and philosophy seminar, we plunge into alternative visions of the future, utopia, and the apocalypse. We watch and discuss Soviet futuristic fantasies, sensual and absurd longings for utopia, and interrogate Hollywood projections of collapse—of systems, values, climates, and subjectivity—onto the silver screen.
From Soviet sci-fi, overlooked French animated classics, East German parables, Polish surrealist arthouse, to American neoliberal disaster-core, we’ll use film as a philosophical battleground: a glowing, flickering space where collective anxieties are staged, sublimated, and creative futures reign.
While the world obsesses over collapse, this seminar uses cinema to ask a weirder question: How have people imagined something better?
Films will be curated and provided.
Wednesdays, 8PM EST (July 30 - August 20, 2025) (Virtual)
It’s the end of the world as we know it—we might as well enjoy some great films.
In this global film and philosophy seminar, we plunge into alternative visions of the future, utopia, and the apocalypse. We watch and discuss Soviet futuristic fantasies, sensual and absurd longings for utopia, and interrogate Hollywood projections of collapse—of systems, values, climates, and subjectivity—onto the silver screen.
From Soviet sci-fi, overlooked French animated classics, East German parables, Polish surrealist arthouse, to American neoliberal disaster-core, we’ll use film as a philosophical battleground: a glowing, flickering space where collective anxieties are staged, sublimated, and creative futures reign.
While the world obsesses over collapse, this seminar uses cinema to ask a weirder question: How have people imagined something better?
Films will be curated and provided.
Wednesdays, 8PM EST (July 30 - August 20, 2025) (Virtual)
It’s the end of the world as we know it—we might as well enjoy some great films.
In this global film and philosophy seminar, we plunge into alternative visions of the future, utopia, and the apocalypse. We watch and discuss Soviet futuristic fantasies, sensual and absurd longings for utopia, and interrogate Hollywood projections of collapse—of systems, values, climates, and subjectivity—onto the silver screen.
From Soviet sci-fi, overlooked French animated classics, East German parables, Polish surrealist arthouse, to American neoliberal disaster-core, we’ll use film as a philosophical battleground: a glowing, flickering space where collective anxieties are staged, sublimated, and creative futures reign.
While the world obsesses over collapse, this seminar uses cinema to ask a weirder question: How have people imagined something better?
Films will be curated and provided.