Where to Watch News from the Near Future Online

Looking to feast your eyes on 'News from the Near Future' on your TV or mobile device at home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Fiona Tan-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to do the work for you.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'News from the Near Future' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'News from the Near Future' right now, here are some specifics about the documentary flick.

Released January 1st, 2003, 'News from the Near Future' stars The movie has a runtime of about 9 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from knowledgeable users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of historic film and audio material tells of man’s ambivalent relationship with water as a force of nature. Drawing on the archives of the Amsterdam Film Museum, Tan composed a narrative crescendo starting off with idyllic impressions of the watery world and building to increasingly menacing scenarios of an unleashed nature. Images of floods and churning seas, of wild winds and storms, parade before our eyes the destructive force of water. Tragedies at sea are reported in the style of old newsreels or radio shows, segueing into pictures of flooded cities that – as indicated in the work’s title – forebode future catastrophes. The cinematic repertoire of waves, tides and floods acts as an historical memory, presenting the sea as a metaphor for the flow of time." .