Mad Max: Fury Road

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still from 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, GB/US 2002)

still 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, GB/US 2002)

still from Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, US 1974)

still Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, US 1974)

poster Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, US/AU 2015)

still from Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, US/AU 2015)

still Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, US/AU 2015)

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In this scary take on the zombie film, everybody appears to have run from a virus that changes people into raging cannibals. Everybody? Not bicycle courier Jim, who tries to reach a military base with a handful of survivors.

Jim wakes up in a hospital after a serious accident. He has been in a coma for 28 days. Once out of bed, he finds the hospital eerily deserted. So are the streets of London.

28 Days Later

New York 2022, home to 40 million people subsisting on strange, green rusks is the dystopian setting for director Richard Fleischer. Detective Thorn sets out to find out whether the food corporation genuinely uses plant-based ingredients for Soylent Green?

New York sweats through a permanent heatwave, clean water, soap, vegetables, meat and fruit have become unaffordable except for the super rich in their ritzy apartments. Other New Yorkers are homeless and hungry, subsisting on the strange, factory-produced rusk: Soylent Green.
How vegetarian is this government provided rusk? Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) attempts to find out supported by aging scientist Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson’s last role) and discover the shocking truth …
Soylent Green is a shining example of a societally critical cult film and was screened at countless SF festivals. Fleischer provides an ominous depiction of the now not so distant over-populated future and Big Corp’s machinations. Little civilisation remains when the populace is reduced to fighting for the last scraps of food.

Soylent Green

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Mad Max is back! In part four, Fury Road, escaped convict Max Rockatansky and several liberated female warriors race through a post-nuclear landscape, in search of water and greenery. The driving, explosive soundtrack is by Tom Holkenborg/Junkie XL

The worst of all possible future scenarios has come about: the bomb has dropped. All that remains is a bleached desert landscape in the hands of cruel dictator Immortan Joe and his gang of warlike albinos.

Film directors have used fiction to show how humanity relates to nature, in every genre. Think, for instance, of disaster films, ones about pandemics, underwater creatures that can talk or plant-based life forms who colonise the minds and bodies of earth’s inhabitants.

Cinema Ecologica

An aggressive race of blue alien giants the Traags keep humans as pets in this surreal animation. The humanoid Oms revolt and create their own living space for themselves on their own planet. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Preceded by: Pumzi, the first Kenyan SF film.

In a distant future on the planet Ygam, the Traags, blue, emotionless super aliens, keep humanoids called Oms as pets in a master-slave relationship. The narrator Terr, an Om child that has escaped, starts a revolt with other Oms and together they manage to start a new life on another planet. La planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet) positions humanity as the slaves, as pets they serve the cruel Traags, a race that considers itself the masters. Smart cooperation and solidarity help the Oms liberate themselves, thereby providing a valuable lesson to the Traags: repression elicits uncontrollable opposition. Psychedelic score
 Director René Laloux and artist/animator/co-scriptwriter Roland Topor adapted Stefan Wul’s SF novel 'Oms en série', a bewildering, surreal parable about humanity’s future. Topor’s cut-out animations depict strange, cosmic landscapes and astounding creatures in a cold universe. The score features psychedelic jazz (Alain Goraguer) that elevates viewers from their quotidian existences to the supernatural SF experience in which humanity is no longer the measure of all things. Pumzi (Wanuri Kahiu, KE 2009, 21’) Fantastic Planet will be screened along with Pumzi, the very first Kenyan SF film is set in East Africa 35 years after the end of World War III. The earth is dry, the soil is poisoned and there is no water. People live in a high-tech underground city, no one is allowed outside. Nature solely exists in a virtual museum, dreams are suppressed with medication. A young woman ignores the ban and plants a cutting from a tree in the desert that she feeds with her own bodily fluids, providing it with shade – a sign of hope in a barren world.

Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller / US, AU, 2015 / 120 min.

Mad Max is back! In part four, Fury Road, escaped convict Max Rockatansky and several liberated female warriors race through a post-nuclear landscape, in search of water and greenery. The driving, explosive soundtrack is by Tom Holkenborg/Junkie XL

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“In the fourth adventure in the Mad Max series, the women get to speak; liberated from their tyrannical leader, they rise up and embody the need for revolution and change.” – Anna Abrahams, programmer