CRAFT & ENCODE present: White Plastic Sky (2023)
The research groups CRAFT (BFE/UiT) and ENCODE (HSL/UiT) are happy to invite to the screening of the animated science fiction movie, White Plastic Sky (Hungary/Slovakia 2023) at Verdensteatret Cinematek on Tuesday, September 10 from 18:00.
Introduction by Krisztina Jonas (NFH). As usual ample opportunity for q/a and discussion after the screening.
Imagine that you wake up 100 years into the future, where climate change has left its deep mark on the world and life can only survive in artificially maintained conditions. The film White Plastic Sky takes you into such a world in 2123, where the citizens of Budapest can only survive under a dome that protects against harsh climate conditions. The future world shown is believable positioning the film on the borderline of a pessimistic climate projection into the foreseeable future and science fiction. The society here is circular and intertwined with nature but perhaps not exactly in ways as one would think. The oldest person here cannot be more than fifty years old as everyone above that age needs to donate their most valuable resource for the common good: their body. Every citizen lives their day-to-day life knowing about their unavoidable fate. Nora, a young woman in her thirties, decides to sacrifice herself for the common good way before her time would come. Her husband, Stefan, is ready to do anything to save his wife’s life which leads him to places he didn’t know existed and gives him insights behind the scenes of the machinery of food production that hides dark secrets. The award-winning White Plastic Sky elegantly raises complex and uncomfortable ethical and psychological questions. The film is about the fragile yet deep interconnectedness between life and death, past and future, and mystery of the trees, depicting a seemingly far away yet relatable future.
Text: Krisztina Jonas
More info and trailer at VT's website.
Tickets can be bought here.
The screening of White Plastic Sky is the 10th in a series of films presented by CRAFT and ENCODE in cooperation with Verdensteatret Cinematek, and the first of the autumn semester in 2024. The theme of the screenings this semester is cinematic perspectives on possible, preferrable, and probable futures. The second screening will be 2001: A Space Odyssey (US, 1968) on October 22, and the third Children of Men (UK, 2006) on November 26. Note the dates!