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1. 2019: A Future Imagined

1 year ago

Visual Futurist Syd Mead ("Blade Runner," "Aliens," "Tron") reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future. Photographed in P2 High Definition, this featurette provides insight into the fascinating mind of one of the most influential artists of modern cinema and automotive design.

reframecollection.org/films/film?Id=1112

Credits

Jim Hunter
Producer, Cinematographer
Joaquin Montalvan
Writer, Director, Editor
Jean-Marc Defrance
Animator/Compositor
Randall Barnes
Sound Designer

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Maximilian Majewski 1 year ago

Very well made and engaging. Love Blade Runner.
Sam Morrill 1 year ago

This is both frightening and exciting to imagine.
Jesse Knight 1 year ago

Fascinating and quite true. Very well made!!!
Richard Gluck 1 year ago

wonderful. these concepts and themes are what gives life to my works. human nature and technology are some of the most fascinating subjects.

i'm very excited for all the new possibilities awaiting us, but at the same time, remain aware of the potential risks we will have to face as humans.

thank you so much for making this.
Yoni Turkienicz 1 year ago

Why so much lens flare?
Michael Heilemann 1 year ago

It's Syd Mead...
Jim Hunter 1 year ago

we intentionally shot with a lot of flaring, knowing Jean-Marc would accentuate them in post. To answer your question . . . in my mind the light somewhat represents the future . . . kind of like a freight train coming right at you! Cheers
Jesse Brede 1 year ago

works for me.
Jay Meany 1 year ago

The lens flare, the the mirrored refraction, and the music are all very Tangerine Dream - Ridley Scott aka Blade Runner-esque. Period correct and well done.
Tim Warneka 1 year ago

Loved this. Very nice. Well done.
ozan 1 year ago

love Syd Mead!!!!!!
mpared 1 year ago

wow excellent its up at thecuriousbrain.com/
Esgi 1 year ago

Good video. I was thinking about this the other day. Looking at the city at night in London, I realised we're living in the future. Plastic, reconstructive and other forms of surgery are augmenting the human body. Computer systems are being developed that can mimic human creativity sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201124345.htm aging is coming close to being controlled nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html IBM is pushing for exascale processing using optics tinyurl.com/27farg6 and so on.
Andrzej Łukasik 1 year ago

Deep and inspiring
This kind of images always drive me to do and think even more
3DTotal.com 1 year ago

Great video. Posted on the 3dtotal.com frontpage.
Mike Kotsch 1 year ago

Awesome! Really and simply awesome!
Steve Morris 1 year ago

Love Blade Runner! Very well made vid and most thought provoking!BV
Ali dadyar 1 year ago

... Great Syd Mead ...
Dwi Anom 1 year ago

totally awesome!
Claude Lyneis 1 year ago

A beautiful film. Strange that Syd Mead uses "growth is logarithmic", when it is the inverse function--exponential that describes growth of technology. I guess it is art over science.
Javier Gomez 1 year ago

This is beyond awesome, The cinematography is flawless,
Brilliant.
David Heroux 1 year ago

Posted it to the rest of my staff of Producers.
Well done, thank you
Steve Talkowski 1 year ago

"Hubris kills." Perfectly stated!
Nathanael Lawrence 1 year ago

What strikes me most, visually, is the amount of daylight in this interview (I love it, by the way) when compared with both Blade Runner and Tron which are both dominated with images of small artificial lights swallowed up in the seemingly infinite night of the future.
superadaptoid 1 year ago

Syd Mead is a TITAN. Great tribute to his art and his thought here. Thanks, I'm buying a copy now!
mariodidier 1 year ago

"Hubris kills"
Lukasz Pason 1 year ago

What was this shot on? Lens? Cam?
Joaquin Montalvan 1 year ago

It was shot on the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 with Zeiss Digi-Primes.
Armando Navarro Cruz 1 year ago

The Future is bright!
Philerooski 1 year ago

You definitely flaunt that lens around!
It looks great!!
Will Spillane 1 year ago

thats really cool. Did Syd Mead create the light cycles in tron? they were pretty rad and cool to see something similar later in Akira (Kanada's bike). I always thought the japanese were more creative in terms of conceptualising the future and conveying such ideas through manga and anime but Syd Mead sums up in 5 minutes what it took an early 1980s manga to explain in 8 books. very insightful.

beautifully shot and chopped i enjoyed it thanks for sharing!!!!
Joaquin Montalvan 1 year ago

YES, Syd designed the light cycles in "TRON", and he designed the "TRON" font.
Will Spillane 1 year ago

rad thanks!

once again, beautiful film!
Joaquin Montalvan 1 year ago

THANK you, Sir!
Michael Struwig 1 year ago

This reminds me of the discussion my Biology class had with our teacher, after we all watched Blade Runner. Incredibly well-spoken and well-said. You've clearly explained what's been sloshing around in my head ever since watching the film.

You sir, are a genius.
Pawel Stec 1 year ago

Amazing film! Thank you!
Mr Syd Mead-thank you for these great thoughts!
Kingofpunk 1 year ago

Syd Mead is one my major source of inspiration
Alpha60 1 year ago

Thanks for posting, made my day to see Syd.
Jim Hunter 1 year ago

Many thanks to everyone . . . we're astounded by the response! FYI, you can support the next chapter in this series here:

reframecollection.org/films/film?Id=1112
Francisco Galárraga 1 year ago

Fantastic! Hearing and watching the futuristic master work: priceless!
Thora 1 year ago

Sage wisdom . . . is that redunant? I like this video!
redboy 1 year ago

love this. syd = legend. many thanks!
Andrew Angle 1 year ago

Core of creativity: 1) you must be the engineer solving the problem, 2) you have to DO the things, and 3) you have to be the Uber who can detach yourself from what you are doing to oversee the things you do (constantly studying to see if it the right thing to be doing in the first place). Getting caught up in what you're doing kills. Well said.
Tony Brown 1 year ago

Great work , very thought provoking.

Thanks for sharing :)
Simon Russell 1 year ago

Another vision of the future: vimeo.com/17593192
The Society Global 1 year ago

Incredibly cool.

Unrelated but cool video here: vimeo.com/17578389

Also being put up @ visceralabsurdist.com
Jefta Varwijk 10 months ago

i think thats REALLY unrelated...
Mike Kobal 1 year ago

fascinating, not so sure I share the optimism at the end...
John Michael Fulton 1 year ago

"Hubris kills."
Balinna Konrada 1 year ago

To video je drsné, ale pravdivé. Musíme něco udělat, nebo to takto opravdu dobadne.
Michael Chernoff 9 months ago

Syd confirmed for me what I've thought about every futurist movie ever made.
Sebastian Idaho 9 months ago

Great work, Great mind.

...and great car to!.
Isaac Griberg 5 months ago

What a visionary!
Sinan İpek 2 months ago

"I'm an optimistic about the future because we have more people working on problems today than ever before."