Sara Bezovšek

The Future ... Is Just Like You Imagined is a short experimental animation film that explores two distinct dystopian futures through the lens of our internet and pop culture imaginarium. It assembles an extensive collection of visual tropes and clichés to depict a grim vision ruled by totalitarian systems of control, coercion and oppression. From brutal autocratic dictatorships to decaying cyberpunk megacities, familiar imagery warns of a self-fulfilling prophecy that may be upon us. The future... is just like you imagined is a part of the multi-year project SND (Spoznavanje narave in družbe, or Studies of Nature and Society) by visual artist Sara Bezovšek in which she reappropriates internet and pop culture references using a dense visual language in order to construct narratives that are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily.

A film about the phenomenon of 'revenge porn' by linking various clips from the film, series and cartoon landscape.

A dense visual collage of online-found videos, memes, photos, GIFs, and links, combined with the director’s own work. Following Hollywood-style narratives, the film shifts from idyllic moments to disasters, pandemics, alien invasions, nuclear explosions, questioning apocalyptic scenarios that could lead to the end of the world as we know it.