It seems almost no one is looking forward to a fantastic future of flying cars much anymore, and many would be relieved to know that there’s any kind of future at all in store for us… but as this series shows, such grim prognostications are nothing new. Bringing together a collection of dystopian and speculative science-fiction films that envisage coming times marked by creeping authoritarianism, government surveillance, and technological “advancement” leading to regressions in human self-fulfillment, “The Future Looks Bright from Afar” offers a look at the many ways in which past generations have described the shape of things to come with fear and trembling.