Things to come

A couple of weeks ago I spent two days in Bristol discussing Utopia. On the Sunday we talked about Utopia in Films and a man showed us what felt like a very long film of a train in 1960's America going over a bridge. Then we watched things to come a film from 1936 set in a place called Everytown. I remember seeing it on BBC 2 in the late 70's. Watching it again it made me consider how history had made the film seem completely different much more complex and ambiguous. It sits between the benefits of totality and control and freedom of choice and I suppose vitalism. The thing it left me with was the idea that within Utopia there isn't much space for transgression- I suppose as with anarchy as soon as there is a desire to transgress then we are falling out of touch with the program. I like the artist here though - people should listen to him as he is an artisan - like the artist Tittoreli in Kafka's The Trail they speak of a different time.