Utopias

Filmed at a time of disillusionment for the British Left the reverberations of the fall of Communism were causing demoralisation and destabilising old certainties while change was also afoot in the Labour Party Utopias questions what was meant by socialism when people were supposedly saying farewell to the term But rather than seeking to define socialism director Marc Karlin instead created a series of portraits of people whose lives had intersected with the concept in practical rather than abstract terms it is part of how they define themselves and asked what socialism meant to them and whether they believed it to be on its way out