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Bookmark this pageThe Future Is Not What It Used to Be (2002)
Director: Mika Taanila
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From Time Out Film Guide
Culturally, it increasingly seems that territories once perceived as edge locations are becoming central. Or maybe, given their positions, they were always that much closer to the future. Overlooked Finnish visionary Erkki Kurenniemi certainly has his watch set to tomorrow's time zones. Pioneering avant-electronica musician, sonic inventor and now obsessive documentarist of his own life, he reflects here on being, mortality, the universe and our colonisation by artificial intelligence, his plan being to blend flesh and machine in a digitised archive of the human soul. The film eloquently conveys his encyclopaedic quest, playing off archive footage against the colourful light patterns of technology and the melancholy lure of the Nordic night.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: Mika Taanila
Producer: Ulla Simonen
Cast: Erkki Kurenniemi, MA Numminen full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 52 mins
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