Futurestates
NYFF52 Convergence
September 27 - 28, 2014
Interactive Presentation
How will today’s innovations shape tomorrow? Experience the latest edition of ITVS’s incredible series that imagines the world of the future via a series of incredible short films and an immersive online experience.
Interactive Presentation
What will America look like in 10, 15, even 20 years? Futurestates, the revolutionary series produced by ITVS, has been proposing answers to these questions since 2010. For its fifth and final season, Futurestates is presented as an immersive online video experience featuring short films that imagine robots with feelings, what education looks like in a wired world, and the future of prisons and our penal system. The central question at the heart of Futurestates is how technologies we may take for granted have a profound effect on our capacity to feel, create, live… and be human.
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