A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE II: THE YEARS OF REPAIR
Can we imagine a better future? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?
Video by Molly Crabapple, Opal Tometi, Avi Lewis
Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around?
“A Message From the Future II: The Years of Repair” is an animated short film that dares to dream of a future in which 2020 is a historic turning point, where the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed and everyone is essential.
The film is a sequel to the 2019 Emmy-nominated short film “A Message From the Future” with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and features the art of Molly Crabapple, with the political storytelling of Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Opal Tometi. The cast of narrators from around the world includes Tometi, Emma Thompson, Gael García Bernal, and the Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey.
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Watch Part 1 “A Message from the Future” with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH…