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The End of Optics
The horizon of contemporary optical vision is closed and limited: it embraces no more than an insignificant part of the…
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Folk Horror, a necessary introduction
Folk horror is best known for several influential films from the early 1970s, but is experiencing a revival, with a…
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Duo Concertantes [Lawrence Jordan, 1964]
Jordan’s collage films are an early example of animation that steadfastly moves beyond the pigeonhole of entertainment to explore experimental…
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Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent”: An Archaic Iconography
The Ascent draws on “the great ‘storehouse’ of those images and symbols without which there is no ‘great tradition’ transmitted…
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Subway poems
What is a subway poem? I write subway poems from time to time. This poem is one of them. Do…
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Antoine Volodine – Radiant Terminus
Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union.
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Aesthetical Interference
“The methods of getting rid of the trash and waste of humanity and making them invisible have determined the existential…
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Tan Oral – Sansür/Censored
‘Censored’ is an animated film made in 1970 by a Turkish cartoonist called Tan Oral. The film won ‘Great Award’…
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‘Superior’brainwashing through sensory deprivation
The main difference between brainwashing and conventional education is the time lapse between the introduction of new ideas and the…
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