July’s Classic Film Screening Theme is “The Future of the Past”

The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers is proud to present our next instalment of the Classic Film Series, Tuesday, July 14th at 7 p.m. in our Sofa Cinema.

July’s screening is curated by Luke Black. His theme this month is “The Future of The Past”.

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The future! Science fiction loves to speculate on the future and motion pictures love to lavish science fiction speculation with epic and spectacular imagery. Towering glass metropolises and flying vehicles abound. Anything is possible in the distant future as the social and environmental variables become more and more difficult to predict.

The beauty of our classic film this month is that we are today living in the distant future that the filmmakers were speculating about. A hundred years after the premiere of what is now considered to be the first work of cinematic science fiction, Georges Méliès’ Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), we can have a lot of fun digging up these early science fiction films in order to see how our modern world compares to our grandparents’ visions of the future.

Our Classic Film this month is particularly spectacular. Written by a popular science fiction author, it unfurls for us the writer’s vision of a hundred years of history to come. While not all of his predictions are very accurate, the basic elements of his future history thesis do turn out to be eerily prophetic.

So hop on your hoverboard and come on down to the CSIF to marvel at what could have been! You won’t be disappointed!

-Luke Black, July’s Classic Film Curator
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