Projected Futures / First Ideas

Real and unreal. Construction and deconstruction. Front and backside. Constructed reality. Unreal front. Deconstruction from the backside. In the movies “The Truman Show” from 1998 and “Blade Runner” from 1982 the future of our society is questioned through a dystopian depiction of the lives involved. With one big difference. Where “Blade Runner” from the beginning shows a futuristic, dark, and starved society “The Truman Show” is presented in the beginning as an ideal and clean environment close to an utopian idea. Clearly something is wrong. It is in this “wrong” the two films overlap and become comparable. The merge of the “real” and the “constructed” reality creates a set of questioning. A questioning of the construction of reality and how we relate to our surroundings. How everything has a backside and the wondering of the look of this. The constant interplay between how we construct and deconstruct at the same time – the creation through deconstruction.