The possibilities of a future
I have been waiting for The Future by Miranda July (who doesn’t completely adore her?) to hit the Spanish cinemas. I sitll haven’t been able to go watch it, but I’ve been subscribed to her future-telling newsletter for a while. And it’s been a spooky experience. She, kind of… guesses? makes me feel like she guesses? some things. Maybe it’s just coincidence, or statistics or suggestivity. Go figure.
The future is something that drives me slightly mad. You see, I knew exactly the kind of future I could expect by the time I was 15. But then something crazy happened, and then my life changed completely, and so did my future. And ever since then, the confidence I had in what my future could possibly look like has been decreasing dramatically. Add the absolutely devastating effects of the recession in Spaniards my age et voilà, youth à la no-future.
Even under this circumstances I still don’t think I would run the risk of dying in my thirties, surrounded by all the Christmas gifts I just bought for all my friends, and not be missed for three whole years. One thing is that we have no future, or even that the world ends on the 21st of December of 2012. But dying alone in the hight of my life and have nobody notice it, that’s a whole different level of tragedy.
Nonetheless, this is what happened to Joyce, a young lady that lived in London (in pretty much the same area I used to live in). The piece of news has resounded with a lot of people, and now a movie has been made to investigate how can something like this ever happen. I have not watched this one either (that’s two faults in my cinema to-do list), but I have checked out a parallel project, Dreams of your life, by Hide and Seek.
Dreams of your life is basically a quizz, a very intimate, disturbing, non-sensationalist quizz. About you and life and love. It’s gentle yet pressing and visually stunning. It’s calmed but engaging. It’s hair-raising and beautiful. I wonder what exactly makes it all those things, and the answer must lie somewhere amongst its simplicity and its bold honesty.
And about its makers, Hide and Seek, they are a game design studio. I mean, what?! How awesome is that? And how great it is that someone that defines themselves as a game design studio can design something this obscureand adult and full of poetry?! I find their purpose mind-blowing. Maybe there is a future afterall.
