Their time machine beeps to life, and
They enter.
A bite is all it takes, for Their reality to disappear, and
a new world beckons; a lost ruin, from which
They narrowly escape. They take another
bite; another leap across realities, another
dire projection follows. A flooded dystopia. They take one final
bite; and They return to the now.
Knowing, and believing, They can help change Their world.
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Between Dimensions - a film exploring climate justice, displacement, and speculative futures - imagines the journey of a fictional climate migrant, using a time machine. The film is first-person-point-of-view, involving alternate dimensions with extreme versions of our current climate catastrophe. Created using interdisciplinary media, including sound, 3D digital renderings, and animation, the film includes a combination of montage, digital drawings, and conceptual world-building.
The main character in the film, They, are a symbol for the people living in the world today. They represents climate migrants seeking a more climate-conscious environment, using hyper-technological machines to journey into alternate worlds. They are therefore deliberately ambiguous.
The film is based on research into flooding and pollution, influenced by current and future trends of climate migration.
Speculative fiction works such as Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower, Ross Welford’s book Into The Sideways World, and Mati Diop’s film Atlantics, inspired the project’s use of surrealism, exploring the speculative transcendence of difficult socio-political environments.
Artworks, including Takashi Kuribayashi’s Trees, and Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping’s Future Scenarios, explore spiritual attitudes to preserving ecology. This influenced motifs in Between Dimensions, such as the magical fruit, and the dystopian tree.
Arts installations, including John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea, Refik Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, and Julian Knxx’s Chorus in Rememory of Flight, explore legacies of displacement and reconnection. These influences inspired Between Dimensions’ time-travel theme, represented through moving image.
