What we think the world looks like is largely determined by fiction and entertainment—extraordinary shared languages through which we exchange ideas and engage with our environment. It is impossible to underestimate the importance of media in the production of culture.

In SCI-Arc Edge’s Fiction and Entertainment program, we engage the techniques of popular culture to imagine and visualize alternative worlds. Deeply embedded in the entertainment industry of Los Angeles, this program is a place to start telling new kinds of stories about the emerging conditions of the twenty-first century.

Work in the showreel comes from Kordae Jatafa Henry, Lara Kobeissi, Viviane Komati, Fariba Shafiee, Te-Hsing Lu, Mohammad Solei, Rohini Jadhav, Paul Pu, Caroline Post, Ryan Yifan Wang, Michel Erler, Leah Anne Judith Lipschitz, Andre AC, Allen Zhang, and Claire He