Speaking of the Future 2020
Artist: Jane D Marsching
Film: Sue Murad
Drone and Steadicam: Elijah Mickelson
Music: "Per Moana" by Tony Geballe
Imagining the future is key to creating the future that we want to have. In Utopia Press, we collectively imagine and broadcast messages about and to the future. Created while in residence at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, the project is inspired by the radical utopian experiment lead by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane in 1843. Their vision of a better world in their time has lived to inspire us today through their extensive writings. Using excerpts from their words as well as thinkers from Thomas More’s original Utopia text to today, Utopia Press seeks to catalyze utopian thinking right now in the midst our complex challenges of maintaining hope, engaging in radical imagination, and provoking just transformation of our world.
- Jane D Marsching
Speaking of the Future
by Jane D Marsching
Participants: Shana Dumont Garr, Catherine Shortliffe, Haley Johnson, Nathan Phillips, Salman Faradhi
Fruitlands Museum
A property of The Trustees of Reservations
Harvard, MA
Filmed in the original Fruitlands Farmhouse and in the forest trails of the Nashua River Valley
Directed by Sue Murad
Lead Camera & Editing: Sue Murad
Assistant Camera & Drone: Elijah Mickelson
Additional Footage: Catherine Shortliffe
Jane D Marsching
© 2020