Reverie

Imagine 20 years ago you hear a knock on your front door and you go to see who’s there, excited to greet them. Imagine 10-15 years ago, your landline phone rings and you run to answer so you don’t miss who’s calling. Imagine now, your phone rings but you don’t recognise the number, you think, If it’s important, they’ll text’. Your landline rings out because only telemarketers have your number. Your doorbell rings but you ignore it and pretend no one’s home.

Now imagine 15 years in the future: how will people interact with each other?

We are seeing a trend of interactions becoming digitised and optional as traditional ways of communicating are frowned upon and sometimes suspicious. ‘Why is that person across the train smiling at me? Why did they hold the door open for me? I wish my uber driver would stop talking to me”.  We question the motives of everyone, avoiding unwanted and spontaneous interactions as much as possible.

In our film, rather than looking at how technology will be in the future we will look more at how people will be in the future, how we will interact with each other and how technology has changed our behaviour. As a point of difference, we want to investigate the possibility of a world in between utopia and dystopia.

In the world of our film, automation has replaced most jobs, with people turning to cheap, ultra-accessible digital media to fill in their time. A lack of opportunities for interaction, paired with detachment from responsibility has resulted in a disconnected, unmotivated community. Society has turned from what would be an advanced, work-free utopia into a fragmented and dysfunctional society.

Reverie Film:

REVERIE from Media Factory on Vimeo.

Group Members:

  • Mairin Angel
  • Leah Oliveria
  • Joseph Nicholson
  • Khalidah Mohamed Khalid
  • Bich Huynh (Alice)

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