Details
Directed by: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Country:
Ireland, United Kingdom
Runtime: 1hr 29min
Year: 2022
Topics:
Personal Stories
‘In different places, different thoughts emerge.’ Irish artists Desperate Optimists consider whether it's time to leave England.
‘In different places, different thoughts emerge.’ Irish artists, Desperate Optimists (aka Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor) have spent three decades in England – raising their now nearly-adult daughter Molly, and putting down creative and personal roots.
In The Future Tense, they consider whether it’s now time to make a move, in an essay film as erudite as it is funny. They explore their own migration story, those of many before them and ask: ‘does Ireland have an addiction to mass immigration?’ And if so, how has English colonialism shaped that?
