More Utopias Now for Random Acts

Commissioned for Channel 4's Random Acts, this energised shout out for a better future comes care of a feisty and empathetic cross-section of inner-city London primary school pupils who voice their hopes for a world to be made under the galvanising eye of a perennially youthful Thomas More, marking the 500th anniversary of his somewhat influential dispatch.

2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. His pioneering account of an ideal society (the original meaning of the word utopia being both no-lace and good-place) set the template for numerous literary, artistic and filmic speculations in the centuries since about the best way to imagine and order the perfect society. Its impact is immeasurable, and while the counter point, dystopia, is perhaps more familiar to our troubled times, the book’s call to imagine a better possible future has never been more relevant or necessary.

My version of Utopia speaks with the voices of primary school children imagining their own Utopia. A lesson to us about the world we made for them.

A Film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Camera by Lasse Johansson
Second Camera by Edward Japp
Costume by Steven Noble
Assistant costume by Dorothy Graham
Set Design by Jordan Chandler and Dorothy Graham
Utopia workshops by Sean Monks, Dorothy Graham, Jordan Chandler, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Sound Design by Adam Paroussos
Title Design by Jordan Chandler
Coordinated by Sandy Conduit
Performed by Kacey Crickmar As: Thomas Moore and Abigail Matete, Adam Husband, Ardit Sejdiu, Chianna Duggan-Mason, Dyani, Kosuge Kabir, Emelie Diaz, Juliana Florez Cardona, Mae Collins, Rajaun Boulyn
Special Thanks to Sean Monks, Sandy Conduit, Debrah Leigh Herring and Tanzanite class at Rotherfield Primary School, 23 Rotherfield Street, London N1 3EE

For Film London
Production Executives: Maggie Ellis and Rose Cupit
Project Officer: Marta Michalowska
Film London Jarman Award
Film London for Channel Four in association with Arts Council England

• http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase...
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCo3CQpF...
• https://randomacts.channel4.com/post/165...