In Re:Imagining 1984, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival goes beyond the dystopian diagnoses of George Orwell, inviting a wide array of voices to a speculative discussion about the viable alternatives for our futures. Over the span of two prerecorded episodes and one live public podcasting session during the festival, we try to escape the binary opposition between Utopias and Dystopias by closely following the works featured at the festival.
Credits
Hosts: Kiko Morah, Stanislaw Liguzinski
Guests: Simon Perry, Jessica Norledge
Producer: Inez de Coo
Editor: Tom Ooms
Music: TeknoAxe
Special Thanks: Berend van Eerden, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Books referenced:
The Language of Dystopia - Jessica Norledge, Springer International Publishing, 2022
1984 - George Orwell, 1948
Utopia - Thomas More, 1516
The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909
The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird, 2012
Red Clocks - Leni Zumas, 2018
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, 1985
Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias - David W. Sisk, 1997
VOX - Christina Dalcher, 2019
The Giver - Lois Lowry, 1993
Followers - Megan Angelo, 2020
The Circle - Dave Eggers, 2013
Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson, 1992
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban, 1980
The Book of Dave - Will Self, 2006
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, 1962 Reading Fictional Languages - Edited by Israel Noletto, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell, Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Native Tongue - Suzette Haden Elgin, 1984
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, 1953
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, 1982
Films referenced:
1984 - Michael Radford, 1984
The Circle - James Ponsoldt, 2017
The Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson, 2001-2003
The Hunger Games - Gary Ross, 2012
Fahrenheit 451 - François Truffaut, 1966
The Matrix - Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999-2003
Equilibrium - Kurt Wimmer, 2002
Series referenced:
The Walking Dead - 2010-2022
The Handmaid’s Tale - 2016-2022
The Last of Us - 2023-now
Games referenced:
The Last of Us - Naughty Dog, 2013
Fahrenheit 451 - Telarium, 1985