‘The Once and Future,’ from Locarno Winner Yeo Siew Hua, Set Up at Bikini, General Film Services
Emilio Mayorga “The Once and Future,” a hybrid project directed by Yeo Siew Hua winner of Locarno’s top prize in 2018 with “A Land Imagined,” will open at the upcoming Singapore Festival of Arts (SIFA).Edson Sidonie’s Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films and Roger García’s General Film Services in the U:S: have teamed for this multi-platform project which will be made as a feature, opera and performance show.Announced as an “expanded cinema experience,” the story is set in the near future, when the planet has become unsustainable and humankind prepares for a planetary exodus to escape extinction.Unable to withstand the voyage, people must leave their bodies behind and upload the totality of human experiences into something called The Labyrinth. The human race is finally just one.