Trailer for 'The Future is a Waste of Time' (2015)
A film about a time-travelling film, brutalist architecture, utopian desire, digital decay, and the demolition of John Madin's Birmingham Central Library. HD video, 18 mins, Ireland/UK, 2015 Dir. Michael Lightborne Premiered at Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon, October 2015. Live five-screen version performed as part of Digbeth First Friday, Minerva Works, Birmingham, December 2014. Michael Lightborne is an artist based in the UK and Ireland. His work addresses the capacity for filmmaking to investigate and critique landscape and architecture, and the potential for video projection to alter and interact with the space around it. He works primarily with moving images and sound, and has exhibited extensively around the UK and internationally.
