Sentences with phrase «dystopian vision»

A new play provides an all - too - realistic dystopian vision of the financial crash's impact on ordinary lives.

It presented a dark, dystopian vision of political oppression.

Gallery Elena Shchukina presents Surreal Universe by contemporary artist Ida Kvetny, an exhibition of paintings combining a Surrealist aesthetic with dystopian visions of the modern world

A slightly dystopian vision of LA, we follow three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin and Nicky, all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.

The Silicon Valley that Pein uncovers is not unlike dystopian visions we are accustomed to seeing in science fiction.

Cameron said: «Whether it's the shift from manufacturing to services or the transfer from manual jobs to machines, the end point is the same dystopian vision - the east wins while the west loses; and the workers lose while the machines win.

It is a powerful dystopian vision, though the Paris - based duo behind it, HeHe, claim not to be making judgements for or against fracking, but say they are merely trying to stimulate discussion.

Jurassic Park was firmly grounded in its source novel's Shelley-esque skepticism of human progress; Minority Report was a prescient dystopian vision of fascism and corporatism run amok.

This is no Disney fable and the apocalyptic vision isn't for everyone, but science - fiction fans and adventurous filmgoers will find this ingenious explosion of retro - cyberpunk a compelling dystopian vision with a gleam of hope.

This was a year where dystopian visions of dying mutants and warring apes captured the national zeitgeist.

You've got the father - son partnership between Will Smith and Jaden in yet another post-apocalyptic dystopian vision of earth, and it's from hit - and - miss director M. Night Shyamalan.

Ryan Gosling stars in this long - awaited return to a classic dystopian vision, and it's a spectacle well worth the second round.

The early scenes are eccentrically engaging and in their most inventive moments (Stanley Tucci as a purple haired Oprah - like talk show host, the torture - gym training scenes, Elizabeth Banks as the oblivious, garishly made - up minder Effie) create a strange dystopian vision that feels refreshingly singular.

I'll just say it's a wise, sweet, and deeply unsettling story - a brilliant dystopian vision of some possible futures awaiting us, the children of the Information Age.»

Having survived — just — its opening encounters with digital, the music industry is busily creating a new dystopian vision of the future for itself: one in which its customers don't buy content but instead pay a flat subscription fee to a third party (such as Spotify) to stream all the music they can manage.

The entire genre takes its name from the Japanese manga / film of the same name, a twisted dystopian vision that pitches classrooms full of Japanese children into a fight to the death.

Ancient civilisations, great perils and dystopian visions await you.

This fantastical solution to the Israel / Palestine conflict is a disturbingly dystopian vision in which the inhabitants» local areas are digitally reconstructed inside a tower and the water supply is sponsored by NGOs.

STOPA In the 1980s, artists like Peter Halley and Ashley Bickerton used geometric abstraction to express a rather dystopian vision of a world where art and architecture are co-opted by an oppressive, anti-human apparatus.

I'm not about to re-prosecute the arguments the article's dystopian vision ignited, not least because (as is the case with most things) Vox's David Roberts already has done a far better job than I ever could.

As society continues to seek an understanding of the digital age by rational means, Ida Kvetny's work offers a dark alternative: a Surrealist aesthetic united with dystopian visions of the modern world.

Nabil Elderkin (director) and Marcus Guillory (writer) / Gully (U.S.A.): This non-linear, slightly dystopian vision of LA follows three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin, and Nicky — all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.

From the malevolent mainframe of 2001's «Hal» to the proliferation of remote - controlled, drone - delivered destruction, dystopian visions of technology exist in abundance.

What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter.

It's certainly a dystopian vision — but it's not too dark to inspire the name of meal - in - a-bottle company Soylent's newest product.

Sims: The dystopian vision is that you'll be able to watch Netflix, but when someone puts an indie film online, you'll have to pay an extra $ 100 a month to see it.

This has raised the spectre of technological unemployment — the dystopian vision of an economy in which machines make many workers obsolete.

This dystopian vision is my «cherry on the cake».

Yet another dystopian vision with Steven Spielberg's brand name affixed to it (as executive producer), this time as a cheap - looking but occasionally intriguing sci - fi social study called Falling Skies.

The new season of Black Mirror is near, and we've just received our first taste of the dystopian vision Charlie Brooker and company have in store for viewers.

Scripted by Marcus Guillory, Gully takes place in a dystopian vision of L.A. and follows three disaffected teenagers, all victims of extreme childhoods, who are running a hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.

Ann Dowd is back as the horrifying Aunt Lydia, the sadistic mistress who torments her handmaids, like a dystopian vision of the principal from Rock and Roll High School.

His follow - up project to 2017's Happy End will be a 10 - part English - language television series, taking place in a dystopian vision of the future.

Terry Gilliam's dystopian vision, which he considered titling 1984 1/2, so confounded Universal Pictures that it nearly wound up being shelved; only after the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Brazil the year's best film — based on secret, unauthorized screenings — did the studio finally relent and release it.

Last year's Silver Lion winner for Best Director at Venice, Amat Escalante's La región salvaje (The Untamed) is a fantasy utopian / dystopian vision that, like the best examples of the genre, has an ambiguity around its central metaphor, mostly because that metaphor has multiple interpretations: feminine desire, queer desire, drug use, and many others.

And teaching is a far more human pursuit than the dystopian vision illustrated above.

Dystopian Vision: Approved: Please closely coordinate with literacy teachers regarding book selection.

It should be no surprise that Mercedes believes that the world will be spinning faster in 2030 as life becomes more crowded and complex, yet the scenario is far from the dystopian vision you might expect.

Saunders» dystopian visions are devastating, and yet he's so generous with his characters that they curl up inside your mind and take residence.

David Samuel Levinson's dystopian vision is deeply strange in the best way, perverse and precise and teeming with life, reminiscent of George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor, Nathanael West.

The publishing industry's continued use of copy - protection or digital rights management (DRM) technologies to «protect» its books from unauthorised sharing is perhaps the clearest sign of how its actions are informed by its obsession with the dystopian vision of the future provided by the music industry.

«The Passage» — Justin Cronin: Waited a little impatiently for this to come out in paperback — Justin Cronin launches a planned trilogy with this dystopian vision of a post apocalypse world divided between small bands of human survivors and the hordes of vampires, or «virals», that surround them.

In a dystopian vision of our near future, Detroit is the story of three androids, three machines designed to obey, who start to feel emotions.

Coincidentally, it reminds me a lot of Mirror's Edge, in terms of both its dystopian vision of the future and its divisive reception.

In a dystopian vision of our near future, Detroit is the story of three androids,...

In Nocturne / Doublemoon (2017), he merges the mysterious atmosphere of Romantic painting with elements of Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84, named for George Orwell's dystopian vision of 1984.

The first three installations of this projected five - year Port of Rotterdam collaboration with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen were ambitious environments measured to the space — AVL mapped out their dystopian visions in human scale; Elmgreen and Dragset erected a building within the building, not to mention a functioning Ferris wheel; Sarkis provided bicycles to ride.

Just as each collaged work evolved organically as it was built from printed elements, the imagery shows an architectural world that is ever moving between growth and decay, teetering on the border between fantastical possibility and dystopian vision.

My goal with these projects is to visually depict this modern conflict between the natural world and the manmade world in interesting and provocative ways, to create elaborate, photorealistic images that show a striking contrast between utopian and dystopian visions of the world.