Abstract:
Tomorrowland adapts Lisa Samuels' book Tomorrowland (2009) and her soundscape CDs Tomorrowland (2012) into a filmic heterotopia combining promised lands with historical suicide and populated by symbolic figures. In the film, the androgynous Eula shoots in from outside the planet to act as our instigating guide to the fateful circumstances of Fasti, Manda, and Jack, who plays death. Director Wes Tank writes, "The combination of Samuels’ lyrical divinations and the evolving landscapes fuse a deep emotional connection. As the world faces new inequalities and migration crises, Tomorrowland imagines digital and bodily selfhood in a history of violence and the continual rebirth of the urge to hope."