From July onward, De Uitkijk will present a retrospective of Fiona Tan. More information will follow soon.
The screening of History's Future on Thursday, July 17 will feature a special introduction by filmmaker Fiona Tan.
While Europe rushes towards an uncertain future amidst loud protests, a man loses his memory after a robbery. Confused and with nothing to hang on to, he breaks out of his helpless state by taking a drastic decision. He leaves home and sets off on a curious odyssey. Guided by confrontational, tragicomic and hopeful meetings, he struggles to get to grips with himself and the future. The fiction, captured in powerful set pieces, is interspersed with raw news footage of riots in European cities and short interviews about hope and desire. The meanderings of a man with no memory form the common thread in an associative, complex whole in which reality and imagination, symbolism and dreamt possibilities come seamlessly together. A form of disorientation that invites us to philsophise on opportunities and choices, on identity, history and our place in the world. “The future is a tale told by an idiot”, as our wandering hero unexpectedly recalls at one point. Will he end up in rags, or a sharp suit? Can he start afresh? History’s Future, Tan’s first feature film, was filmed on location in Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Athens, Leipzig, Berlin and London. The film’s cast includes Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant, Anne Consigny, Christos Passalis, Rifka Lodeizen, Johanna ter Steege and Brian Gleeson.