HISTORY’S FUTURE by Fiona Tan
(2015, The Netherlands, 95 min)
Part fiction, part documentary, part speculative essay on the contemporary world, History’s Future is about one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil – and through his own mind. Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as ‘MP’ (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey – in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West – into what commentators have called an age of ‘rolling catastrophe’.
Press screenings:
Jan 28, 11:45, De Doelen
Feb 1 at 11:45, De Doelen
Public screenings:
Jan 28, 19:45, Pathe 4
Jan 29, 15:15, Pathe 7
Feb 2, 22:15, Pathe 3
Feb 5, 12:30, Lantaren Venster 3
Feb 6, 12:30, Cinerama 1