The company began in New York in 1998 as CrossPathCulture — residencies, public art, film festivals, and artists from thirty-three countries.
About
Since 1998.
Films, art and gatherings, made with the people closest to the story.
Why these three forms
Film. Art. Gatherings.
Each project begins with research and is developed with the people and institutions closest to its subject, and is designed for release, exhibition, education and continued public use.
We work with memory, history and what happens next.
Our story
New York to Hiroshima.
The work travelled: Detroit, Mississippi, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Hiroshima.
In 2015, CrossPathCulture became 1Future. The company grew; the commitment to long-term cultural collaboration did not change.
The name.
1Future first appeared in an artwork: One People, One City, One World, One Future.
Made after a visit to New York City Hall and the Hall of Records — the building that holds the city's deeds — it asked who owns and shapes a place.
Not one culture, and not one answer. Our lives are connected, even when our experiences are not the same.
How we work
Research.
How we work
Production.
How we work
Partnership.
We work across Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, with people who know the language, institutions, history and stakes of each setting.
Papers, recordings, negatives, scans — and Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto's memoir, found at Yale's Beinecke Library.
The archive supports new films, artworks, exhibitions and learning.
Also in the practice
Documentary, public art, education.
Hiroshima Revealed, Detroit Revealed, Mississippi Revealed — an NHK documentary series researched and produced over eleven years.
Not Yet Free — an anti-racism programme carried from Johannesburg to the Bronx.
Art Assist — young people facing exclusion placed into professional productions as crew.
How the work lasts.
Commercial revenue supports production. Philanthropic funding protects research, translation, access, education, archives, participation, and the time needed to build trust.
We are building the capacity to support more work than our own — with authorship retained by those who make it, and value shared with them.
Now
Hiroshima 8:15, Future Memory, Eleanor.
1Future is producing Hiroshima 8:15, continuing Future Memory, and developing Eleanor. The Forum and its partnerships support what comes next.