SPACE Gallery and the Maine International Film Festival present Utopia in Four Movements

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Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise—a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon. With a powerful sense of poetry, Utopia in Four Movements uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

In this “live documentary,” filmmaker Sam Green cues images and narrates in person while musician Dave Cerf performs the soundtrack with Brooklyn band The Quavers. From the establishment of a man-made language designed to end war and cultural conflict and the undying optimism of an American exile in Cuba, to the current economic boom in China and the desire to give the remains in mass graves a dignified burial, Green and Cerf sift through the history of the utopian impulse with audiences and search for insights about the way to build a vision of the future based on humankind’s noblest impulses.

Presented through the generous support of the Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation and the Moser Family Foundation.

http://utopiainfourmovements.com/

The Maine International Film Festival runs July 9-18, 2010. For more information, visit http://www.miff.org/