A dark future with a ray of hope
Erin Sarofsky’s animation for the technical/creative festival, FITC, imagines mankind’s evolution, demise and possible regeneration.
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Credits
powered by
- Production Company Sarofsky
- Director Erin Sarofsky
- Director Duarte Elvas
- Executive Producer Steven Anderson
- Lead Artist Josh Smiertka
- Lead Artist Tanner Wickware
- Music Supervision/Audio Post/Sound Design Groove Guild
Credits
powered by
- Production Company Sarofsky
- Director Erin Sarofsky
- Director Duarte Elvas
- Executive Producer Steven Anderson
- Lead Artist Josh Smiertka
- Lead Artist Tanner Wickware
- Music Supervision/Audio Post/Sound Design Groove Guild
A rather troubled answer to the question ‘where do you see yourself in five years’, this stunning film, titled What You May Find, is set to a new version of the 1968 chart-topping song In the Year 2525.
It was created to celebrate the Toronto annual festival’s cinematic vision, with the event itself being cancelled this year due to coronavirus, and helmed by Emmy-winning director Erin Sarofsky through her own production company Sarofsky Corp, which has produced title sequences for such shows as Shameless, The Killing and, Community, Happy Endings.
The song – a hit for US pop duo Zager and Evans – posits how society will develop as the millennia progress, with not-so-cheery forecasts including, “In the year 9595, I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old earth can give and he ain't put back nothing.” Oh dear.
It does however, eventually, offer the hope that in a distant galaxy, humankind’s story will repeat itself after we have become extinct.
