Film Series "TENSE FUTURES - FUTURE TENSES. Um/Welten im Film"

Can a slowly progressing phenomenon like human-induced climate change be portrayed in film at all? With this question in mind, the film series looks at social-ecological crises and catastrophes from very different perspectives in a selection of science fiction, experimental, documentary and feature films. In time-lapse and slow-motion, from bird's-eye and worm's-eye perspectives, the films narrate about past, future and present scenarios of the world. Arriving in the present of former apocalyptic visions of the future, these imaginations raise new questions from today's perspective and in turn produce new cinematic worlds in which social and ecological crises, but also utopian and concrete options for action are thematized.

The series comprises a total of eleven dates and plays in three different locations in Hamburg: the Metropolis Kino, the B-Movie and the MS Stubnitz. Each film is accompanied by input from an expert.