Premiere: November 26, 2022 at the F-O-R-M Festival
Streaming on CBC Gem
A CBC Arts Original
Produced by Company 605 and Screen Siren Pictures
Executive Producer: Trish Dolman / Screen Siren Pictures
Producer: Kate Kroll
Producers: Lisa Mariko Gelley & Josh Martin
Written by: Brian J Johnson & Company 605
Director / DOP: Brian J Johnson
Movement Direction and Choreography: Company 605 in collaboration with the Performers
Composer: Matthew Tomkinson
Editor: Aram Coen / Karen Porter
Production Design: Kalyn Miles
Featured Performers: Jasmine Chen, Justine A. Chambers, Josh Martin, Bynh Ho, Zahra Shahab, Avery Smith, Jessica Wilkie, Shion Skye Carter, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Antonio Somera, Mika Manning, Billy Marchenski, Kate Franklin, Arash Khakpour, Kylie Miller, Brandon Alley
How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures?
Collaboratively conceived by Director Brian J. Johnson and Vancouver’s acclaimed Company 605, Future Futures is a collection of 5 short dance films that explore the digital destiny of humankind through a unique merging of camera and visual effects with an intensely specific choreographic vision. Embracing the absurdity of centering dance inside a sci-fi narrative, the experimental series collapses time to portray human culture at an unprecedented moment: an emergence of a new, autonomous and intelligent being – the digital reflection and culmination of ourselves. In a state of mass transition, and forced into a bizarre coexistence alongside this growing presence, the remaining population of embodied “real” humans confront their own fears and curiosity of this new dawn while grieving what might be left behind in their looming obsolescence. Through its otherworldly imagery, choreography and driving electronic sound score, Future Futures evolves as a strange, highly visual and compellingly watchable exploration into what we are if no longer tied to our physical bodies, and how we will define humanity when being faced with a fading IRL existence.
Company 605 gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC and BC Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver.
