Here Comes Tomorrow: Cinema of the Last Century

As MOCA Jacksonville celebrates its 100th anniversary, we look back at the last century of artistic expression in film. With a particular focus on films that imagined the future, this year long series explores decade-by-decade, the hopes, anxieties, and dreams of filmmakers and audiences from the 1920s to the present day.

This event takes place during Florida Blue Free Museum Nights at MOCA! Enjoy concessions from the MOCA Bar and Setlan Coffee Co. The museum is open extended hours from 5-9 p.m., so feel free to explore the galleries before or after the films.

This event is free and open to all. Geared to an adult audience, but open to all ages.

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

To get in contact with someone the day of the event, please reach out to MOCA Guest Relations at 904-366-6911.

SCREENING SCHEDULE

January 17 // Metropolis (1927)

February 21 // Things to Come (1936)

March 20 // Krakatit (1948)

April 17 // Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

May 15 // 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

June 19 // News from Home (1976)

July 17 // Solaris (1972)

August 21 // Brazil (1985)

September 18 // Strange Days (1995)

October 16 // Children of Men (2006)

November 20 // Interstellar (2014)

December 18 // Last and First Men (2020)

APR 17 // INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, they soon discover that the patients' suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates is taking over the small town.

A classic of American Science Fiction, the film has been interpreted as a metaphor for the tyranny of the McCarthy era as well as an expression of the national fear of a on communist invasion.

Directed by Don Siegel

Starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter

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MAY 15 // 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A film that predicted space tourism, the rise of AI, and inspired films as diverse as Star Wars and Barbie.

Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking and science fiction in this masterpiece, a contemplation on the nature of humanity, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Stone Age Earth: In the presence of a mysterious black obelisk, pre-humans discover the use of tools--and weapons--violently taking first steps toward intelligence. 1999: On Earth's moon astronauts uncover another mysterious black obelisk. 2001: Between Earth and Jupiter, the spacecraft's intelligent computer makes a mistake that kills most of the human crew--then continues to K*ll to hide its error. Beyond Time: The sole survivor of the journey to Jupiter ascends to the next level of humanity.

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JUN 19 // News from Home (1976)

We celebrate the conclusion of A Walk of the Wild Side: '70s New York in the Norman E. Fisher Collection with Chantal Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s.

Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.

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JUL 17 // Solaris (1972)

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

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AUG 21 // Brazil (1985)

In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.

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SEPT 18 // Strange Days (1995)   

Former policeman Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience the emotions and past experiences of others. While the bootlegs typically contain tawdry incidents, Nero is shocked when he receives one showing a M**der. He enlists a friend, bodyguard Mace (Angela Bassett), to help find the killer -- and the two soon stumble upon a vast conspiracy involving the police force Nero once worked for. 

Written by James Cameron and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, this commercial failure has since achieved cult status for its prescient vision of a future obsessed with virtual and augmented reality as escapism.   

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OCT 16 // Children of Men (2006)  

This sci-fi epic from Alfonso Cuaron imagines a future world that has fallen into anarchy after an infertility epidemic has affected the world’s population and made humankind face the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows an unlikely champion of Earth's survival: Theo (Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who is forced to face his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope for a future generation.

Presenting issues around immigration, bodily autonomy, governmental tyranny, and international health crisis, the story feels timelier than ever.

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NOV 20 // Interstellar (2014)

In Earth's near future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.

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DEC 18 // Last and First Men (2020)

Two billion years in the future, humanity finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that remains are lone, surreal monuments— the futuristic, solemn, Brutalist stone slabs erected during the communist era in the former Yugoslav republics, arrestingly photographed in luminous 16mm black-and-white. A stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival, Mandy) conjures a world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments, once intended as symbols of unity and brotherhood, now abandoned beacons beaming their message into the wilderness. Based on the cult 1930 science fiction novel by British author Olaf Stapledon, with narration by Tilda Swinton, Last and First Men is a poetic, hopeful, and tragic work: an allegory of remembrance, ideals, and the death of Utopia.

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