Description:
Future X is set in the future, where ecological collapse, civil war, and privatized moon colonization for corporate elites have become reality.
Brief description: Georg Koszulinski is an award-winning writer/director who has been producing films since 1999. His work spans a wide range of forms and styles, from feature-length narratives and social justice documentaries to short experimental films. His documentary work has enabled him to collaborate with a broad range of communities, including oceanographers and mariners studying climate change, Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw communities of the Pacific Northwest, migrant farmworkers in Florida, and Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti. Georg's forthcoming feature documentary A Map of the World in Time, filmed 34 days at sea in the Arctic Circle, was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Geosciences Union, the latter awarding him the 2023 EGU Journalism Award. Georg recently wrote and directed the award-winning feature film, Red Earth (2023). The film won a juried prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the New York Sci Fi Film Festival, and is available on a variety of streaming platforms. www.georgkoszulinski.com
Review Quotes:
"FUTURE X is a bold and timely work. It is an honest and unflinching confrontation with much of what's wrong with our shared culture... Koszulinski's vision of madness, at once apocalyptic and dystopian, challenges readers to honestly assess their situation, and consider how we might live more modestly together in prosperity and peace, without resorting to genocide or war on civilians."
-Paul Hunter, author of the award-winning book of farm poems, Breaking Ground
"In Future X, award-winning filmmaker and now award-winning novelist Georg Koszulinski gives the reader a timely mash-up of national collapse, pandemic, and technological dystopia narratives to explore the most dangerous, large-scale, anthropogenic variants ("x") of our possible futures... At this moment in history, Koszulinski's novel brings together all the X's influencing what the Dead Man describes as 'our collective failure to imagine our way out of this world and into another.' "
-Charles M. Tung, Modernism and Time Machines
"Kozulinski's debut novel is timely, masterful, and raw. Set in a nightmarish future, it is a visionary tale of survival and self-discovery in a world ravaged by the climate crisis, AI, and unchecked capitalism."
-Pavithra Tantrigoda, Professor of English, University of Central Florida