This Saturday at 7 p.m. the Queen Anne Movie Guild will be showing Ancient Futures – Learning from Ladakh, as part of their second Saturdays free film screenings hosted every month at the Queen Anne United Methodist Church, located at 1606 5th Ave W.
Think back twenty years. What was the world, and your life, like then? Things have changed a lot haven’t they. Life is more stressed – more gadget-driven, etc. If you’re old enough, go back another twenty. What do you see now? A lot of changes in that period also. And another twenty?
Such is the premise of Ancient Futures, which chronicles the change of one of the most remote places in the world, Ladakh, an arid and mountainous region that has the highest altitude of any inhabited place on the planet.
What the Guild has to say about the film:
Our roads and our technology were very slow to arrive here – and until they did these people had lived full and self-sufficient lives for centuries.
The movie is beautiful, infuriating, and a must-see all at the same time. You will come away with a deeper understanding and insight into the root causes, and solutions, for the problems of your own society – and have a deeper respect for the ‘developing’ world.
There is a famous saying: ‘Those that fail to study history are destined to repeat it’. This movie is a microcosm of the changes in our modern society. Watch it.