What Is Wild Future?
Wild Future a concept unearths lost footage, forgotten stories, and analog artifacts from the past 50+ years.
Part documentary, part installation, part treasure hunt—born from a educational access cable show it evolved into something more. underground media project and archive. Now it’s restored, reframed, and slightly warped.
What’s in the archive?
Music performances from bands you’ve never heard of (but should have) Experimental videos predating MTV, the internet and all the crap on the interwebs. Experimental community TV from another world Found, lost, and never seen footage vintage home movies, film school projects, analog reels, Low fi tech,spoken word, youth workshops, underground art, answering machines audio with ghosts—and a few mysteries.
What’s the point?
To share a lifetime of creative output.
To build a living museum of forgotten moments.
To show how media — even damaged, awkward, and raw — can transcend time.
Wild Future isn’t about going back. It’s about bringing the past forward and letting it sit with us, glitch and all.
Why Now?
The past held on. These tapes — U-matic, Beta, VHS, cassette, Super 8, DV — nearly vanished from floods, format changes, moves, meltdowns, and long doubt. They survived. So did we. Wild Future restores forgotten work, celebrates the strange, and shows stories last even when tapes don’t.
Who is Behind It?
Russ Lunn — filmmaker, educator, archivist, recovering perfectionist, and full-time analog whisperer.
Russ has spent decades filming, documenting, experimenting, and collecting media in all its glorious formats. His work has spanned community video, music scenes, experimental film, educational outreach, and personal confessionals that were never supposed to see the light of day (until now).
He’s not just revisiting the past — he’s trying to make peace with it. Or at least make it viewable in HD.
