The Future We Choose  - Deep Listening Part 3: Disconnection
Channel: Greenbelt Festival
Date: 29/06/2022

Inspired in part by Numbers Stations - this short film is an exploration of disconnection and isolation. Numbers Stations are shortwave radio stations, widely believed to broadcast on-way coded messages or instructions to intelligence agents in the field, with the first use of these bizarre broadcasts recorded during the First World War. Given their nature as one-way, covert communication channels, many of them are still active today - broadcasting a message no one will ever hear. 

This film features samples from The Conet Project, an archive of all currently known Numbers Station broadcasts from around the world.

To me, these recordings evoke a deep sense of time and our often frustrated attempts to reach out and connect with each other. The spaces between us.

Film by Barney White 
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A collaboration between Jackson M Phoenix, Barney White and you, The Future We Choose will craft a radical new collective vision for our shared future.

At this point of global disruption, we are at a place where a change of direction is essential, and we find ourselves in the handful of generations who have the opportunity to make this our legacy.

It is clear we need to rethink our direction of travel as a species – but to change direction, we must have a new destination in mind.

The Future We Choose is a shared space for brave thinking, real dialogue, deep listening, and collective (re)visioning.

Initially comprising six multi-artform pieces, from films to jigsaws to inner journeys, each will explore a quality essential to profound (re)visioning: deep listening, interconnectedness, higher consciousness, and wonderment.

This initial series of works will broadcast a global call for responses to the question:

Forgetting what you think is possible or likely, what could a radically better future for humanity and our planet look like?

Your response to this call will become part of the final artwork, premiering at Greenbelt Festival 2022: a collective (re)visioning installation, an inhabitable space in which to immerse in this bold and radical new collective vision for our future.

The Future We Choose will place our collective vision in clear sight, inspiring action and catalysing momentum towards radical change.

What is it, the future you choose?

To share your vision, leave us a voicemail on +44 (0)7455 363 164.

#TheFutureWeChoose
Created by Jackson M. Phoenix and Barney White.
Commissioned by Greenbelt Festival

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Film by Barney White
(Additional footage from 'All the Sea' directed by Jackson M. Phoenix)