Futurekin
The short film Futurekin follows a group of women who seek autonomy over their own bodies, by creating the ability to bear children outside of the body.
In this post CRISPR* world kids are brought to term and grown in complex, sensitive wombs in a lab. The speculation acknowledges the development of different/unfamiliar neurobiological quirks, through lack of touch and absence of foetal programming in the womb. By virtue of being separated from pregnancy, science and biotech become in vitro paternal/maternal surrogates. This far-future ‘what if’ replaces abortion with a plethora of incomprehensible, ethical unknowns.
Scientists are accelerating ways to direct our evolutionary path –– powerful genetic engineering tools, such as CRISPR [*gene-editing technology] can fundamentally redesign our species. Be it gene-edited babies or kids grown in artificial wombs, playing with the very building blocks of life, creates terror and inspiration, in equal measure.
