Hi Ross,
Andrey Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' (Russia, 1979) is an interesting example. Based
on a science fiction novel, it's not distopic as such, and geography takes
on a whole new dimension.
Mike Ashcroft
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>Subject: Nature in the future?
>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:33:06 +1000
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>Taking off from Emma's original question - I have a slightly different
>request.
>
>Can anyone help we examples of futuristic or science fiction films that
>depict a geography of the country rather than the city? In particular are
>there any films that depict a non-dystopic image of the future of nature.
>Is there a future garden of Eden? or earthly wilderness?
>
>As part of a book on nature I found myself writing about the future. As a
>genre is futurism inevitably ecologically distopic? Is its setting always
>denatured? Is this denaturing of the future a sign of ecological fatalism
>or of a certain archaistic simplification that seems to be generic in
>science fiction no matter whether city or country or another galaxy is
>being represented?
>
>Ross
>
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