Upload Cinema: Visions Of A Future

Dagan Cohen @ Upload Cinema
Photo by Anne Helmond

Upload Cinema is a monthly gig in Amsterdam where organizers Barbara de Wijn and Dagan Cohen take web videos to the big screen. It’s sponsored by Amsterdam advertising agency Draftfcb and invitation only, however you can apply for membership here. We try to go the every one and show you a list of movies shows there. Also see all the videos from the previous edition titled ‘Top 36 (plus one NSFW) viral videos of 2008‘.

February 2nd (this Monday) was a trip down memory lane of the future. Though quite some current future visions we’re screened, like BMW’s Gina and the Minority Report inspired G-Speak, the editorial team clearly had a soft spot for past future visions, showing video’s like Leonardo Da Vinci’s Automobile and Visioning A Web In 1934.

Almost 200 films were submitted, 37 were selected and shown. Here they all are:

0. Intro Julian Bleecker
http://vimeo.com/2990886

1. Metropolis
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_uMj4MToe0&feature=related]

2. There Will Come Soft Rains
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKJ77w6uQCg]
 TULYAKHODZHAYEV

3. Clothing in 2000
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI]
 PATHETONE

4. GM Futurama
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4]
 JAM HANDY

5. Elektro 1939
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=T35A3g_GvSg]
 UNKNOWN

6. 2001: In 2min 1sec
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGGXoEzoVKA]
 STANLEY KUBRICK

7. Blade Runner End
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw]
 RIDLEY SCOTT

8. Geminoid
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=i8pMN6CcmXY]
 HIROSHI ISHIGURO

9. Death Star Over Frisco
http://current.com/items/89204971/death_star_over_san_francisco.htm
MICHAEL HORN

10. Life After People
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=VofSKYLMfe8]
 HISTORY CHANNEL

11. 2012
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXa82AuwHU]
 RONALD EMERCIH

12. Future by Design

[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7x79kJ1S0]
 WILLIAM GAZECKI

13. House of the Future
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCCO3GKqWY&feature=related]
 MONSANTO

14. Mon Oncle
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9t98Gox60]
 JAQUES TATI

15. Houselife
http://www.koolhaashouselife.com/html/trailer_2.html
 REM KOOLHAAS

16. Automovile 1495

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qeZrejZp0]
 LEONORADO DA VINCI

17. Frau in Mond
http://www.vimeo.com/748890
 LUCIAN BERRIALUA

18. Dymaxion Car
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLZE23EJKs&feature=related]
 BUCKMINSTER FULLER

19. Time Machine
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0nJhpCmznU&feature=related]
GEORGE PAL

20. Fifth Element
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhlD6q71YA&feature=related]
LUC BESSON

21. Gina
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=kTYiEkQYhWY
BMW

22. Female Car
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z99yC1hM9c
 CARTOONLAND

23. Auto Car
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfwpA-iYnI&feature=PlayList&p=B4292A1378FA40D7&playnext=1&index=64]
 BBC

24. Future Vision
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2_i0rmhR2K0]
ERWIN VAN DER ZANDE

25. Visioning A Web In 1934

[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI]
 PAUL OTLET

26. Future Shock
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ghzomm15yE]
 ALVIN TOFFLER

27. 1984
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaAdbU8k5w]
 RIDLEY SCOTT

28. Hal 9000
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHJkAYdT7qo&feature=related]
 APPLE

29. Minority Report UI
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwVBzx0LMNQ]
 STEVEN SPIELBERG

30. G-Speak
http://vimeo.com/2229299
 OBLONG INDUSTRIES

31. Minority Report Mall
http://vimeo.com/2844800
STEVEN SPIELBERG

32. The Catalogue
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI]
 CHRIS OAKLEY

33. Ubiqutous Sonar Phone
http://vimeo.com/2844815

34. Ordering Pizza in the Future
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoE]
 DEDOTS

35. Cartman in 2546
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104410
 SOUTHPARK STUDIOS

36. Playstation 9
[youtube:http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=7lAp3szXfyg]
 SONY

37. Astrological Predictions
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6-uFxhZGc&feature=related]
 BARBARA GOLDSMITH