XXXXXX, REMEMORY BANK

by Henry Morgan

Films like Bladerunner 2049 always anticipated a dystopian polluted future where humanity is bound to its technology and the planet dying of ignorance. Since the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the health of our planet has been improving. Despite its short affliction, the pandemic revealed the effects such a busy society had on the environment. Unfortunately our addiction to technology became worse and we continued to lose our humanity.
At the end of 2020 the first Rememory Bank appeared in Southwark, near what used to be the old Borough Market (now that trendy residential unit that had all the protests). It was a proposal for a film school and an archive of memory data, designed to remind us we are human. The film school teaches students how to create experiencial short films that transport locals to imagined worlds in an architecture made of memories.
Nowadays there are Rememory banks in most neighbourhoods. It isn’t a solution to our problem sadly, simply a rope to hang on to whilst we wait for salvation.