“A florist or gardener,” replies a young boy when asked what he wants to be when he grows up. “A paleo-artist . . . who makes art of prehistoric things,” proffers another child. Other children plump for “a police” [sic] and “a mathematician . . . because I could work on quantum gravity and I get a Nobel Prize.” One boy is already a model. A little girl plans to play for Arsenal.
The children, all six or seven years old, are the protagonists in “The Future (Sixes and Sevens)”, a new film by British artist Cornelia Parker. Just under nine minutes long, “The Future” is deceptively simple. Shown on two screens, each of which features two young children responding to questions by Parker — who is neither seen nor heard — so it appears that the youngsters are in conversation.
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