How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures?

Collaboratively conceived by Director Brian J. Johnson and Vancouver's acclaimed Company 605, Future Futures is a collection of 5 short dance films that explore the digital destiny of humankind through a unique merging of camera and visual effects with an intensely specific choreographic vision. "As Many As One" is the fourth episode of the series. Embracing the absurdity of centering dance inside a sci-fi narrative, the experimental series collapses time to portray human culture at an unprecedented moment: an emergence of a new, autonomous and intelligent being - the digital reflection and culmination of ourselves. In a state of mass transition, and forced into a bizarre coexistence alongside this growing presence, the remaining population of embodied "real" humans confront their own fears and curiosity of this new dawn while grieving what might be left behind in their looming obsolescence. Through its otherworldly imagery, choreography and driving electronic sound score, Future Futures evolves as a strange, highly visual and compellingly watchable exploration into what we are if no longer tied to our bodies, and how we will define humanity when being faced with a fading physical existence.

*NOTE: This is Episode 4 from a series of five short films, which are available to be shown as a chronological collection, either as a continuous whole (with one set of master credits - 38.5 minutes total duration) or separately (6-10min each), with other films/content shown between each episode within a shared screening program to break up the viewing experience.