Two videos by a British film director
Richard Hardy that I just discovered on twitter via
Urbain trop Urbain, a French urban think lab:
The Eco-Commune and
The Transcendent City.
These two films are filmed and produced by
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate
Richard Hardy, now Art director and illustrator at
We Are Om.
The first video is
The Eco-Commune.
Richard Hardy wrote on this film:
A short film [that] explor[es] a dystopian vision of London in the near future. The economic meltdown of 2009 has left the financial district abandoned, allowing space for nature to reclaim its iconic structures, and a new community of scavengers to settle within its midst.
Some images:
The second film
The Transcendent City has already been presented by
Dezeen. For those who haven't read the article yet, click
here.
THE ECO-COMMUNE from
Richard Hardy on
Vimeo.
In short,
Richard Hardy depicts his film as follows:
[The Transcendent City explores] a future sustainable [developed] for a society that is currently not responding effectively to environmental dangers. "Transcendence" in this case referring to a point in time between our modern earth and the ultimate earth when artificial intelligence has reached or surpassed that of the human. The Transcendent city explores the concept of a technological singularity, where humans may have evolved to transcend our carbon based bodies forming a hybrid system with the artificial machine and in turn overcoming our biologically determined limitations.
Images below:
THE TRANSCENDENT CITY from
Richard Hardy on
Vimeo.
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