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In 1982 Walt Disney World?s EPCOT Center, or, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, opened to the public, a little late for an utopic modernist project. The original park featured an ?infotainment? ride called Horizons, which was sponsored by G.E. It showed a future in which technology and innovation coupled with the family unit would evolve into exciting and previously unimaginable territories?with colonies in outer space and under the Earth?s oceans. In 2000, the ride was demolished to make way for an immersive thrill-ride called ?Mission: Space.? The story in this video, about a family doing research on a colony in the Chamaleon Complex whose supplies and funding inexplicably stop arriving, and who are determined to survive however they can, accompany archival Hi-8 video footage of the ride.

Joshua Thorson is a video-maker and writer based in New York. He works with narrative conceptually, exploring and exploiting the narrative exchange through the themes of science, religion, transcendence, authenticity, idealism, and trauma. Using tonal shifts and stringent economy, this work seeks to both cater to and usurp expectations, opening up the ?story? to ontology. Thorson?s work has been presented at museums, galleries, and theaters internationally.