En 1964, Arthur C. Clarke, co-scénariste de Kubrick sur 2001, nous dévoile sa vision du futur. En revisitant le signal transmis par ces premières images cathodiques, ce film expérimental en réalité virtuelle nous plonge littéralement à l’intérieur de la matrice sonore et visuelle qui constitue le cœur de cette archive. I Saw the Future propose au spectateur de s’immerger dans un espace tridimensionnel faisant écho aux prédictions futuristes d’un savant visionnaire et humaniste.

In a dark expanse that could be the cosmos, we hear the voice of Arthur C. Clarke, whose face - taken from a BBC archive dating back to the 1960s - appears in the distance. His features quickly dematerialize into a multitude of shimmering pixels, creating an enveloping and immersive space out of which the thoughts of the famed author of «2001: A Space Odyssey» emerge. At the heart of this spectral environment, and with a magnetic voice sending us back to the time of cathode ray tubes and the golden age of television broadcasting, A C. Clarke tells us about the arrival of digital revolution, decades ahead of his time. This film is an invitation to travel, and a crepuscular form of poetry to be experienced immersively.