1. Dreams, daydreams & memories of Hope Craig Hammond

2. The Power of an Idea Vision New Possibilities Hope 1902: Georges Mlis Trip to the Moon 1969 Moon landing 3. In remembrance of forgotten Hope (Gaston Bachelard) [A creative] beauty is within us, at the bottom of memory. It is the beauty of a flight which revives us, which puts the dynamism of one of lifes beauties within us. On the thread of our history as told by the others, year by year, we end up resembling ourselves. We gather all our beings around the unity of our name 4. Forgotten adventures 5. ERNST BLOCH THE PRINCIPLE OF HOPE From loss of childhood to an incomplete/unfinished childhood Some popular culture contains utopian material, which can prompt personal traces of longing Utopia, is Not-Yet, so we daydream about the possibility of transformed scenarios through books / comics / films / fairytales Hope-Detectives: future = Not-Yet 6. HOPE 7. Philip K Dick: We Can Remember it for you Wholesale Something is missing Discarded somewhere along the onset of routine But beyond Dougs Spiritual emptiness Ache for redemption He still dreams against the odds of escape 8. Daydreams, wishes, escape (through film) Siegfried Kracauer suggests that to investigate todays society, we must listen to the confessions of the products of its film industries They blab a rude secret, without really wanting to; revealing how society wants to see itself And offer a limited number of typical themes recur again and again Ernst Bloch suggests that Films create utopian hints for employees; images of escape from the capitalistic routine. From the glaring tedium of the everyday, we escape in to night-time of film 9. Let my People Go! But is all that it seems? Lets see what the clip contains 10. So where is utopia in all of this? Hope is snatched back at the end of the film The machinations of the Industry smother the message in cheese But, is there scope for Utopia beyond the film? 11. Just a dream (so what!?) Every film we have enjoyed one day takes a place in our memory next to others. Movies are one memory among others, and they submit, like them, to the menace of oblivion, to the erosion of memory (Marc Age Casablanca) Consciousnesses may be synchronised in a shared moment of viewing, but the film we saw is never the film I remember. (The Remembered Film) A utopian something exists beyond doorway of the re-imagined film 12. Beyond the door of the work lies an empty-space Ernst Bloch: The story of the old painter belongs here, who showed his friends his final painting in it was a park, a narrow path winding past trees and ponds up to the little red door of a palace. But as the friends turned back toward the artist he was no longer next to them, but within the painting, strolling down the little path toward the fabulous door, standing quietly before it; turned, smiled, opened it, and vanished. (Ernst Bloch, Traces: 118) An interiority of creative possibility