A event on Friday 7th March. The event starts at 19:00.
Bristol premier of filmmaker and writer Edmund Ogawa Hardy's first feature-length film, *Negative Worlds* (2024), followed by Q&A with the director.
A low-key utopian romance about ‘knowing together’ and long pathways of hope, *Negative Worlds* is pieced together from playfulness, long nights, journeys and friendships. It’s film as a loose chronicle of shared hopes, dance music, organising, protest and magic.
A group of friends start a reading group and go in search of another world within this one. Projected into the world of 2190 after a big night out, everyone must find and follow their own mission for ‘the Co-Creation’.
‘We seek the seeds that won’t grow here.’ – Ernst Bloch
The film has an ensemble cast, featuring Nisha Ramayya, Rachel Schofield Owen, and Namida Red, alongside James Goodwin, Erin Liu, Caroline Nguyen, Laurel Uziell, Amy Cutler, Ash Reid, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Derawan Rahmantavy, Aydeez, Isabell Dahms, and Bylli Dhupat.
Negative Worlds is a feature film created over eight years, between 2016 and 2024. Enter the official website (https://negativeworldsmovie.uk/) to find out more (including glossary of the year 2190, genesis of the film, and character map).
Edmund Ogawa Hardy is a filmmaker and writer based in London. His films are experimental narratives which combine voiceover and collage to tell fragmented stories of collective life, utopian visions and friendship. Under the name Namida Red, he creates music and animations as part of his films and beyond them. Edmund's feature film Negative Worlds (2024) brings these themes into play with time-travel; a communication network of the future called the Data Sea; raves in and around London; and what happens to diverse hopes for better times. Edmund's poetry focuses on echoes, pop music and intense emotional arrays; it is collected in two chapbooks: Desire for Tears (Earthbound Press, 2023) and Every Cruel Thing (Monitor Books, 2021).
*Ticket (£6) includes refreshments. 20 capacity, seated & accessible. Some tickets are allocated as PWYC starting at £0.00: please select this option if you need to do so*
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
A low-key utopian romance about ‘knowing together’ and long pathways of hope, *Negative Worlds* is pieced together from playfulness, long nights, journeys and friendships. It’s film as a loose chronicle of shared hopes, dance music, organising, protest and magic.
A group of friends start a reading group and go in search of another world within this one. Projected into the world of 2190 after a big night out, everyone must find and follow their own mission for ‘the Co-Creation’.
‘We seek the seeds that won’t grow here.’ – Ernst Bloch
The film has an ensemble cast, featuring Nisha Ramayya, Rachel Schofield Owen, and Namida Red, alongside James Goodwin, Erin Liu, Caroline Nguyen, Laurel Uziell, Amy Cutler, Ash Reid, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Derawan Rahmantavy, Aydeez, Isabell Dahms, and Bylli Dhupat.
Negative Worlds is a feature film created over eight years, between 2016 and 2024. Enter the official website (https://negativeworldsmovie.uk/) to find out more (including glossary of the year 2190, genesis of the film, and character map).
Edmund Ogawa Hardy is a filmmaker and writer based in London. His films are experimental narratives which combine voiceover and collage to tell fragmented stories of collective life, utopian visions and friendship. Under the name Namida Red, he creates music and animations as part of his films and beyond them. Edmund's feature film Negative Worlds (2024) brings these themes into play with time-travel; a communication network of the future called the Data Sea; raves in and around London; and what happens to diverse hopes for better times. Edmund's poetry focuses on echoes, pop music and intense emotional arrays; it is collected in two chapbooks: Desire for Tears (Earthbound Press, 2023) and Every Cruel Thing (Monitor Books, 2021).
*Ticket (£6) includes refreshments. 20 capacity, seated & accessible. Some tickets are allocated as PWYC starting at £0.00: please select this option if you need to do so*
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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