WITH SIGNAL AND NOISE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2010 AND DIM CINEMA

 Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to co-present 3 short films by London, UK-based artists The Pil + Galia Kollectiv for the VIVO Signal and Noise Festival, May 27-30^th 2010.

 In November 2005, IKEA announced a new store opening in Edmonton, London to be accompanied by an offer of a significant price reduction on leather sofas. When 6000 people arrived to compete for the discount, a riot ensued, injuring 16 shoppers. The Future Trilogy takes this event as the starting point for a speculative history of a fictional future. The Future for Less (2006) imagines the consumer riot as the foundation of a new totalitarian state religion imposing the tenets of modernism on the masses. In Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008), a rural cult perverts this official creed through pagan rituals of architectural worship performed at Celtic burial sites in Cornwall. The final installment, The Future is Now (2009), similarly shot on 16mm colour film, stages the triumphant conquest of the industrial wasteland surrounding IKEA Edmonton, London as a popular uprising, revisiting the original riot as a future reenactment. 

A screening of The Future Trilogy will be preceded by the vocal performance of Lief Hall, titled AXIX XS.  This event will take place at the Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St., Sunday May 30^th, at 7:30 p.m. as part of DIM Cinema.

This month’s Thought on Film (XXVII), Cineworks’ monthly reading group, will focus on The Future Trilogy in conjunction with Paolo Virno’s  essay “Virtuosity and Revolution”.  For more information, check under Thought on Film.