film

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be

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Producer(s)	Kasumi
Director(s)	Mika Taanila
Release Date	2002
Runtime	52 min
Format(s)	video
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

Erkki Kurenniemi is one of the great unsung pioneers of the electronic age, a man whose career encompasses a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers and robotics, and explores the interrelationships between art, nature and technology.
THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE shows many of Kurenniemi's innovative creations, never-before-seen archival material from the early years of electronic art, and excerpts from his own unfinished experimental short films. But the core of the film is what Kurenniemi is doing today, the most significant of all his projects: the task of collecting everything. Today Kurenniemi is devoted to the obsessive, even manic, effort to record his own life,[...]continually recording an audio diary, making videotapes, and shooting 20,000 photographs a year.