Date: 23 July, 8.30pm | Location: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London

The premiere screening of The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us, a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people’s care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script, a collaboration with APEngine contributor George Clark, was constructed from verbatim transcripts of a discussion group held over a period of five months with the residents of four of Camden’s Care Homes.

Taking B.S. Johnson’s 1971 experimental novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure point and employing the structural logic of a score, the script is edited into a vertical structure, in which 8 voices or monologues occur simultaneously.

The film is one of five commissions that have taken place as part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Skills Exchange Project. For tickets and associated events visit the Serpentine’s site.