Speculative Worldings

Worldings are not pregiven, they are processual and emergent. Cinematic research-creation is speculative when it is oriented to improvisationally co-creating worldings with cinematic technology and social actors.

These are Speculative Worldings.

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  • Documenting Fiction

    Documenting Fiction

    Documenting Fiction (Kuelken 2019) follows and reflects on the making of a speculative fiction film Waiting to Connect set in Porto, Portugal. This is an excellent bts film that explores methodological questions.

  • Waiting to Connect

    Waiting to Connect

    A speculative worlding film about Anna, Fran, and the Decentralized Dance Party in Porto, Portugal.

  • Unspittable

    Unspittable

    "A journey that feels far more profound than the film’s 32-minute run time." --Ryan Garner, Edmonton Journal Sept. 1, 2020.

  • And,And,And...

    And,And,And...

    Neuza agrees to help Anna make a film about the infamous Portuguese Punk legend Fragil. What begins as an openness to new music and new music spaces becomes life alterning when she meets a DJ at an ararchist EDM event. Loving multiple things and resisting a forced choice leads Neuza to polyamory.

  • Ark: a return to robson valley

    Ark: a return to robson valley

    Mixed with documentary festival footage from 2009 and a fictional story about Kelci and Diana's experience at the 2019 Robson Valley Music Festiva

  • Anarchist Erotica

    Anarchist Erotica

    Anarchist Erotica is a specualtive worlding film that seeks to understand the existential effect that Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) has had on party-goers around the world.