The work of Rivers and his themes continues to resurface in my own work. The idea of the outsider living on the fringes of society and the blurring of reality and fiction to create a hybrid world of myth and actuality are ideas I can apply to my Global Warmning fictional piece. I am toying with the idea of creating a real yet mythologised to be a near fictional character like Rivers has done in some of his work. However I will reverse this to have a fictional character mythologised to feel like they are a real character.
His repertoire became more overtly sci-fi last year with Slow Action, which reimagined four islands in different parts of the world as post-apocalyptic societies created by rising sea levels, described in voiceover by sci-fi writer Mark von Schlegell. "They're looking much more into the future than into the past," Rivers says of his films, admitting to a certain apocalyptic tendency. "I think it's on a lot of people's minds: we live in a seemingly pretty unstable world, with too many people. But I always think of myself of being pessimistic in a short-term way but optimistic in a long-term way. A lot of my films are full of hope, I think."
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