1 / 23

SCIENCE FICTION

BFI FILM AUDIENCE NETWORK 17/12/13 Rob Winter Rhidian Davis. SCIENCE FICTION. ‘BLOCKBUSTER’ CRITERIA. Contains a core British element Presents a new narrative around the subject including opportunities for new scholarship and curation

esben
Télécharger la présentation

SCIENCE FICTION

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. BFI FILM AUDIENCE NETWORK 17/12/13 Rob Winter Rhidian Davis SCIENCE FICTION

  2. ‘BLOCKBUSTER’ CRITERIA • Contains a core British element • Presents a new narrative around the subject including opportunities for new scholarship and curation • Has the potential to reach audiences across the UK and make a media impact • Has the potential to attract new audiences • Presents cross-platform opportunities – online, in cinema, DVD, education, publishing etc • Has the potential for international cultural exchange • Speaks to a diverse audience/fulfils BFI diversity objectives around BAME audiences • Involves partnerships • Increases the profile of specialised film, the BFI and its partners

  3. WORKING TITLE Intrigue those who think they hate Science Fiction Include the idea of Speculative Fictions Not focus on one territory but allow for breadth of stories Need to encapsulate a ‘feminine’ element BFI stands by - on full-alert! - in readiness for THINGS TO COME: SCIENCE FICTION FILM & TV • a major historical and thematic exploration of the best of this perennially popular and visionary genre. OCT14-JAN15

  4. THE 21st CENTURY STARTS NOW – A NEW WAVE OF FUTURESHOCK MESSAGES THE EPIC VISTAS OF SCIENCE FICTION COME ALIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN CLARKE’S THIRD LAW: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” CELEBRATING THE BRITISH IMAGINATION ON FILM: CULTURAL meets SCIENTIFIC meets INDUSTRIAL meets ISLANDERS meets EMPIRE BUILDERS SCIENCE FICTION DEALS WITH ‘LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING’ OUR ARCHIVES CONTAIN VISIONS OF FUTURES PASSED THE SPECUALTIVE FICTION vs. SCIENCE FICTION DEBATE

  5. AUDIENCES HIPSTER INTELLECTUAL GEEKS PEOPLE WHO “DON’T LIKE SCIENCE FICTION” GENRE CINEMA FANS WITH LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE BFI YOUNG AUDIENCES INTO POPULAR SF WHO ARE KEEN FOR BACKSTORY POPULAR SCIENCE COMMUNITIES CORE CINEPHILE AUDIENCE

  6. PROJECT STRUCTURE

  7. PART ONE – TOMORROW’S WORLD 23rd OCT/NOV 14 TOMORROW’S WORLD is a place full of what-ifs, brought to life by the charge of technological progress. In 21st Century times - riddled with Futureshock - how do we distinguish between the Speculative Fiction of our nearest futures and the Science Fiction of our distant fantasies? And what does that tell us about where we’re at? These are visions of the future and of futures passed - films that show us the end of life as we know it.

  8. PART ONE – TOMORROW’S WORLD 23rd OCT/NOV 14 CORE FILM & TV PROGRAMME (DRAFT) Tomorrow’s World The Day the Earth Caught Fire (GB 1961, d. Val Guest) Dr. Strangelove (GB/US 1964, d. Stanley Kubrick) Fahrenheit 451 (FR 1966, d. Francois Truffaut) Planet of the Apes (US 1968, Franklin Schaffner) The Omega Man (US 1971, d. Boris Segal) Soylent Green (US 1973, d. Richard Fleischer) Survivors (GB, BBC, 75-77, 2 EPS) Mad Max II (AUS 1981, d George Miller) The Old Men at the Zoo (GB, BBC, 1983, ALL 5 EPS) Letters from a Dead Man (RU 1986, d. Konstantin Lopushanskiy) Children of Men (US/GB 2006, d. Alfonso Cuaron) Things to Come (GB 1936, d. William Cameron Menzies) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (US 1954, d. Richard Fleischer) Blade Runner (US 1982, d. Ridley Scott) Clarke’s Third Law Apocalypse Now? 1984 (GB 1954, d. Rudolph Cartier) The War Game (GB 1965, d. Peter Watkins) It Happened Here (GB 1965, d. Kevin Brownlow) Fahrenheit 451 (FR 1966, d. Francois Truffaut) The Year of the Sex Olympics (GB 1968. Nigel Kneale) Punishment Park (US 1971, d. Peter Watkins) Logan’s Run (US 1976, d. Michael Anderson) Alternative III (GB 1977, Anglia TV, d. Christopher Miles) An Englishman’s Castle (1978, BBC Paul Ciasppessoni) Feelifax (1980 BBC. Jim Hawkins) Memoirs of a Survivor (GB 1981, d. David Gladwell) The Flipside of Dominic Hyde (1982. BBC. Alan Gibson) Les Saignantes (CM 2005, d. Jean-Pierre Bekolo) The Time Machine (US 1960, dir. George Pal) Back to the Future (US 1985, d. Robert Zemekis) Primer (US 2004, d. Shane Carruth) Speculative Fictions Time Becomes a Loop Metropolis (DE 1927, d. Fritz Lang) Alphaville (FR 1965, d. Jean-Luc Godard) Brazil (GB/US 1985, d. Terry Gilliam) The Sprawl

  9. PART TWO – CONTACT! DEC 14 CONTACT! is made, and things are never quite the same again. Science Fiction and mankind’s drive to explore (and exploit) new frontiers. The thrill of escape and exploration – freed of earthly shackles and venturing into deep, dark space. Are we alone in the cosmos? If not, what can we imagine of our alien visitors? Films that deal with universal hopes and fears and offer drama on a planetary scale.

  10. PART TWO – CONTACT! DEC 14 CORE FILM & TV PROGRAMME (DRAFT) CONTACT! A Message from Mars (GB 1913, d. J. Wallett Waller) The Thing from Another World (US 1951, d. Christian Nyby) The Day the Earth Stood Still (US 1951, d. Robert Wise) Village of the Damned (GB 1960, d. Wolf Rilla) Devil’s Eggshell (GB 1966, d. Gareth Davies) Quatermass & the Pit (GB 1967, d. Roy Ward Baker) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (US 1977, d. Steven Spielberg) Day of the Triffids (GB 1981, BBC, ALL 6 EPS) Alien (US 1979, d. Ridley Scott) The Thing (US 1982, d. John Carpenter) Monsters (GB 2010, d. Gareth Edwards) Destination Moon (US 1950, d. Irving Pichel) Forbidden Planet (US 1956, d. Fred M Wilcox) The Silent Star (DE 1960, d. Kurt Maetzig) The First Men in the Moon (GB 1964, d. Nathan Juran) 2001: A Space Odyssey (US/GB 1968, d. Stanley Kubrick) Silent Running (US 1972, d. Douglas Trumbull) Blake’s 7 (GB, BBC, 78-81, 2 EPS) + Moonbase 3 (GB, BBC, 1973, 2 EPS) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (US 1979, d. Robert Wise) The American Astronaut (US 2001, d. Cory McAbee) Serenity (US 2005, d. Joss Whedon) Keep Watching the Skies To Boldly Go Dark Star (US 1974, d. John Carpenter) The Man Who Fell to Earth (US 1976, d. Nicholas Roeg) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (GB 1981 6 EPS) Brother From Another Planet (US 1984, d. John Sayles) Barbarella (US 1968, d. Roger Vadim) E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (US 1982, d. Steven Spielberg) Koi Mil Gaya (IN 2003, d. Rakesh Roshan) Being Human Loving the Alien The Space Race Red Scare Invaders from Mars (US 1953, d. William C. Menzies) X: The Unknown (GB 1956, d. Leslie Norman)

  11. PART THREE – ALTERED STATES JAN 2015 ALTERED STATES represents the Science Fiction of biology and ‘inner-space’ Minds and bodies twisted by medical and neuro-scientific experimentation. Mad scientists, mutants, man-machines and mind-bending trips Films that get us under the skin of the homo sapien and into the minds of our monsters.

  12. PART THREE – ALTERED STATES JAN 15 CORE FILM & TV PROGRAMME (DRAFT) Altered States The Invisible Man (US 1933, d. James Whale) The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB 1946, d. Robert Stevenson) Godzilla (JN 1954, d. Ishiro Honda) The Damned (GB 1961, d. Joseph Losey) Fantastic Voyage (US 1966, d. Richard Fleischer) Doomwatch (GB, BBC, 70-72, 2 EPS) Artemis ’81 (GB 1981. Alastari Reid) The Fly (US/CA 1986, d. David Cronenberg) The Host (Korea 2006, d. Joon-ho Bong) THX 1138 (US 1971, d. George Lucas) Slaughterhouse-Five (US 1972, d. George Roy Hill) Zardoz (GB/US 1974, d. John Boorman) Stalker (RU 1979, d. Andrey Tarkovsky) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US 2004, d. Michel Gondry) Possibility of an Island (FR 2008, d. Michel Houellebecq) Dancing with Darwin Brain Benders Alarune (DE 1927, d. Henrik Galeen) The Critical Point (GB 1960, George R. Foa) Seconds (US 1966, d. John Frankenheimer) Demon Seed (US 1977, d. Donald Cammell) The Brood (CA 1979, d. David Cronenberg) Altered States (US 1980, d. Ken Russell) Liquid Sky (US/RU 1982, d. Slava Tsukerman) Dune (US 1984, d. David Lynch) Dandy Dust (US/AU 1998 d. Hans Scheirl) The Human Farm Chemical Reactions The Other Man (GB 1964. Gordon Felming) The Terminal Man (US 1974, d. Mike Hodges) The Terminator (US 1984, d. James Cameron) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (JN 1989, d. Shin’ya Tsukamoto) The Cloning of Joanna May (GB 1992. Philip Saville) AI: Artificial Intelligence (US 2001, d. Steven Spielberg) The Man Machine

  13. PROJECT STRUCTURE

  14. TALENT/AMBASSADORS • Adam Rutherford • Brian Cox • Adam Buxton • Joe Cornish • Charlie Brooker • Peter Capaldi • Nelly Ben Hayoun • Roger Luckhurst • Edgar Wright • Simon Pegg • Patrick Stewart • William Shatner • Steven Spielberg • Douglas Trumbull • Joe Dante • John Landis • David Cronenberg • John Carpenter • Terry Gilliam • Duncan Jones • Gareth Edwards • China Mieville • Margaret Atwood • Charles Stross

  15. AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

  16. NOTES FOR DISCUSSION

  17. WHAT WILL CATCH FIRE?

  18. WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US?

  19. WHO WOULD YOU BEAM UP?

  20. WHO WILL JOIN US?

  21. HOW LONG HAVE WE GOT?

  22. BFI FILM AUDIENCE NETWORK 17/12/13 Rob Winter Rhidian Davis SCIENCE FICTION

More Related