Dark Horizons 2021

Adam Murray / UK / 7 mins / English / Rating 18 / World Premiere

Dark Horizons

Synopsis

Dystopia or Utopia?
Representations of Horror and Hope: BIPOC and The Dread of Climate Change and Environmental Collapse On Screen.

A film essay that explores a decades-long obsession that genre cinema has had with notions of; ‘the end of the world’, environmental collapse and environmental concerns, usually framed against the BIPOC assumed/lived experience. As well as the absence, and/or presence of Black and Brown bodies on screen, clashing against western notions of capitalism and progress, is utopian or dystopian, for whom and what outcomes? From great apocalyptically biblical tidal waves to notions of blood purity and miscegenation, technophobia, the fear of borders both real and imagined, the fear of corporations and the nuclear bomb, to toxic waste, borders and land rights, genre cinema has always had a thirst to speculate about race, environment, and the end times for better or for worse…


About the Director

Adam Murray is a regular contributor and programmer with Film Collectives/Festival: Come The Revolution, Cinema Rediscovered, Cables & Cameras, Commonhand and Bristol Black Horror Club. He is also a member of Universal Magnetic Radio Show. Adam has previously collaborated with Bristol’s Watershed on a screening of Ava Duvernay’s first feature This Is The Life, he also contributed to the venue's Afrofuturism season as part of BFI's "Sci-Fi: Days of Fear And Wonder" as well as their "Blackstar season".

Adam also contributes to regular film networking event Cables & Cameras based at the Cube Cinema, Bristol. His programming interests focus on Blackness and African diaspora on screen. With a particular passion for exploring Mixed-Race identity, Global Hip Hop Culture, Science Fiction: Utopia/Dystopia as well as exploring Black Horror with Bristol Black Horror Club.

Past Showings

Friday 29th October 2021 / 7:30pm for 17 days / Online


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