ABSTRACT
Twenty-year-old James Hudson responds to recent developments in his life, including the drastic events of the 2015 Boxing Day flooding of his neighbourhood, and other changes in his life and environment. The imagined forty-year-old James of 2036 also joins the phone calls to tell his previous incarnations about developments in the region over the past twenty years. Finally, sixty-year-old James of 2056 will enter the phone booth reporting back to his younger selves on another twenty years of changes to his life and old neighbourhood. The chapter explores how to apply projective improvisation in ethnographic film to understand how fieldwork informants relate to and imagine the future through a technique the author call ‘ethno science fiction’. It shows how ethno science fiction film can be used as an ethnographic film method. From an interventionist perspective, it also provides a possibility for innovation and solution.
