In Re:Imagining 1984, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival goes beyond the dystopian diagnoses of George Orwell, inviting a wide array of voices to a speculative discussion about the viable alternatives for our futures. Over the span of two prerecorded episodes and one live public podcasting session during the festival, we try to escape the binary opposition between Utopias and Dystopias by closely following the works featured at the festival. 

Credits

Hosts: Kiko Morah, Stanislaw Liguzinski 

Guests: Simon Perry, Jessica Norledge 

Producer: Inez de Coo 

Editor: Tom Ooms 

Music: TeknoAxe 

Special Thanks: Berend van Eerden, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro

Books referenced: 

The Language of Dystopia - Jessica Norledge, Springer International Publishing, 2022 

1984 - George Orwell, 1948 

Utopia - Thomas More, 1516 

The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909 

The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird, 2012 

Red Clocks - Leni Zumas, 2018 

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, 1985 

Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias - David W. Sisk, 1997 

VOX - Christina Dalcher, 2019 

The Giver - Lois Lowry, 1993 

Followers - Megan Angelo, 2020 

The Circle - Dave Eggers, 2013 

Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson, 1992 

Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban, 1980 

The Book of Dave - Will Self, 2006 

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, 1962
Reading Fictional Languages - Edited by Israel Noletto, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell, Edinburgh University Press, 2023 

Native Tongue - Suzette Haden Elgin, 1984 

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932 

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, 1953 

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, 1982 

Films referenced: 

1984 - Michael Radford, 1984 

The Circle - James Ponsoldt, 2017 

The Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson, 2001-2003 

The Hunger Games - Gary Ross, 2012 

Fahrenheit 451 - François Truffaut, 1966 

The Matrix - Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999-2003 

Equilibrium - Kurt Wimmer, 2002 

Series referenced: 

The Walking Dead - 2010-2022 

The Handmaid’s Tale - 2016-2022 

The Last of Us - 2023-now 

Games referenced: 

The Last of Us - Naughty Dog, 2013 

Fahrenheit 451 - Telarium, 1985