1970s SciFi: The Architecture of Nature

The unique opportunity to present groundbreaking 1970s scifi film Silent Running in fully-restored high definition at the ICA led us to think more about that decade's interest in man-made technology's place in nature.

So we've unearthed a pair of rarely-screened treats alongside Silent Running to show how prescient the genre was at expressing ecological concerns which wouldn’t enter the mainstream popular consciousness for at least another two or three decades.