Dream Cargoes is a live-cinema work from Lucy Benson (Screenplay, Direction, Filming, Video/VFX) and Marcel Weber (video/VFX) featuring an original score by Roly Porter (plus string quartet) and Keith Fullerton Whitman. The original concept was written by Lucy Benson.
Partly inspired by J.G.Ballard’s story of the same name, Dream Cargoes explores the predicament of the last man on an exploited and abandoned Earth, who, in the toxicity of nano and bio-tech waste witnesses a wondrous flourishing of new life forms and an unprecedented expansion of space and time. The work is performed live by the four artists and a string quartet.
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