“The structure is so complex and expensive that no single nation would be able to afford them or conceive them, but if we make a decision not to go extinct we need to start building these machines.”
– LA-based filmmaker and speculative architect
Liam Young, on the radical decarbonization infrastructure imagined in his new film
The Great Endeavor, currently on view at the
National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne. “It envisions the scale of global collaboration that’s necessary,” Young explains. “We need to use the same language that we used around the moon landing to rally the entire generation around this idea.”
