(Melbourne International Film Festival)

A free Melbourne Conversations event exploring cinema’s stylised visions of future cities, from the machinery of Metropolisto the mind-bending experiments of Dark City. Are these cinematic cities of tomorrow simply two-dimensional caricatures of our culture, or are they thought experiments that shape and inform real world city building? We have brought together a filmmaker, urban planner, researcher and technologist to discuss the sometimes bright and sometimes dark metropolises that populate our screens and our streets.