Digital Rocks - Issue 42 of N+1

Digital RocksHow Hollywood killed celluloid David Maljkovic, Temporary Projections (version 2). 2012, inkjet print on archival paper with collage element. 39 × 59". Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers.Hollywood is to the cinema what the United States is to the world. Its power is outsize. India, China, Nigeria, Russia—among many other countries—each release more movies annually than the five-member studio syndicate based in Los Angeles. But no other film sector carries more influence, ge...

Terrors of the Flesh - The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film

In Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, David Huckvale traces body horror in cinema back to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, who states that a human takes pleasure and suffers pain only by means of the senses or the organs of the body (p. 1). Such a corporeal philosophy, Huckvale continues, strongly anticipates Friedrich Nietzsche, who was eager to have a positive attitude towards life despite its horrors. This book, then, aims to explore the profound anxieties we ...

Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook (idea) by li - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook (idea) See all of Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook, there are 4 more in this node. (idea) by li Sun Jul 02 2000 at 3:33:58 Why macs makes it on to the screen more often Windows, Linux and MacOS are examples of popular operating systems. They help you get the work done. On the movie set they could use actual operating systems too, ...

On Opacity - How Artists Resist Representation and Legibility – ARTnews.com

ARTnews.com HomeArt in AmericaFeatures On Opacity Simon Wu May 11, 2022 11:37AM EDT IN SANDRA MUJINGA’S VIDEO Worldview (2021), a chilly pastoral scene plays for eight hours across three framed screens. Are we looking through a window? A portal? Mujinga shot the footage at the innermost part of the Norwegian fjords at Gudvangen (from the Old Norse fo...

Landscape and the Moving Image

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines commitment to ecology. Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists ...

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site Clip source: Bathysphere%20-%20The%20Official%20William%20Beebe%20Web%20Site https://sites.google.com/site/cwilliambeebe/The Official William Beebe Web SiteSearch this siteNavigationCharles William BeebeBathyspherePheasant ExpeditionBlair NilesElswyth ThaneBooksWhyLinksMagazine Articles2846days since 80th Anniversary of World Record Bathysphere DescentBeebe's Voice William Beebe audio on "Information Please."1911https://sites.google.com/site/...

Cannes and MULHOLLAND DRIVE

---------- Forwarded message ---------From: MUBI hola@mubi.com>Date: Fri, May 27, 2022 at 20:00Subject: Festival Focus: Cannes Film Festival | MULHOLLAND DRIVETo: zshihab@gmail.com> Initially conceived as a TV pilot, only to be transformed into a feature film, Mulholland Drive is an uncorked lightning-in-a-bottle of Hollywood fantasies, baroque emotions, and noir dreamscapes. David Lynch’s surreal puzzle box unfolds a bewitching story of love and revenge in the City ...

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s | Isis: Vol 113, No 2

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930sKijan EspahangiziAbstract At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called "glass diseases" seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware. It had become ap...

Twin Peaks Coin Magic --- Lynchian Numismatics - 25YearsLaterSite.com

Magical coins appear throughout Twin Peaks and in other Lynch projects. Henry in Eraserhead, for example, keeps a little wishing well full of coins in the top drawer of his dresser. In Wild At Heart, silver dollars play a coded role in hiring assassins. In the Secret Diary, a gold coin appears to Laura after she, perhaps possessed by BOB, rapes Harold Smith. On the way out of Harold’s, Mrs. Tremond’s grandson, Pierre, saw me and came up to me and pulled a gold coin out of my e...

Star Wars - Hidden Details and References

The filmmakers behind the Star Wars films are just like the hardcore fans: they're movie nerds. The recent Disney+ shows like The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett and Kenobi have been jam-packed with references to classic Star Wars works, both the well-known and the obscure.But beyond that, the films are full of easter eggs that fans would never spot the first time they watched them. There are loads of references to other films in the Star Wars movies, plus some other random things that are thr...

Armageddon Time - film review

There are any number of memorable images from James Gray’s "Ad Astra," a singularly introspective space adventure in which Brad Pitt journeys to the outer limits of our solar system just to hear Daddy Lee Jones tell him that he doesn’t care, but none have stayed with me quite like the shot of Pitt’s astronaut landing on the Moon — the very first stop on his interstellar voyage into the heart of darkness. Once the ultimate symbol of humanity’s possibility and the nearest proof of our species’ ...

The Action Scene: "Dabangg" and Projections of Power

The Action Scene: "Dabangg" and Projections of PowerSourceURL: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-action-scene-dabangg-and-projections-of-power"This was just the trailer. The real picture starts now."       Thus quips supercop protagonist Chulbul Pandey partway through the opening fight in    Dabangg (2010), his eyes just a few degrees removed from looking straight into the camera. His remark requires a slight revision: the rest of the scene, too, fe...

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M. Night Shyamalan Paid Homage To A Forgotten Marlon Brando And Jack Nicholson Western

M. Night Shyamalan Paid Homage To A Forgotten Marlon Brando And Jack Nicholson Western Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/April 29, 2022 5:37 pm EDT A beach that makes you old sounds right in the wheelhouse of M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker who gave us aliens that emit poison gas from their wrists in "Signs" and...

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Poignant Photo Series Uses the Color Blue to Explore Depression

Home / Photography Melancholic Photo Series Uses the Color Blue To Capture Experiences With Depression By Margherita Cole on May 1, 2022 ...

No One Behind The Scenes Of The Big Sleep Understood The Story

No One Behind The Scenes Of The Big Sleep Understood The Story Warner Bros. By Anthony Crislip/April 29, 2022 10:49 am EDT Howard Hawks' 1946 adaptation of "The Big Sleep" is one of the best Humphrey Bogart movies. It's a great detective movie, following private eye Philip Marlowe (Bogart) as he investigates a blackm...

Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return

"Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice." The post Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

What Do Stripes Have to Say About Your Character?

From the rebels to the outcasts to the villainous schemers, stripes have a lot to say about your characters.  Stripes are one of the most noticeable patterns in existence, standing out because of their immediate and repetitive change from one color to another. The human eye and mind are unable to distinguish the foreground from the background, making the pattern hypnotic and visually confusing.  There is even an evolutionary theory that zebras wear stripes to confuse predators...

The Best Tropes in ‘Our Flag Means Death’

I love tropes. Probably to a ridiculous degree. So it shouldn’t be surprising that I am completely obsessed with how tropes are used in Our Flag Means Death.   Usually, when people talk about tropes, the bad ones come to mind first: burying your gays, fridging, queerbaiting, etc. But tropes aren’t always bad. A lot of the time they can be quite fun. Like, who doesn’t love a well-done Meet Cute? Or a Happily Ever After? Or maybe you’re just a sucker for Heartwarming Moments. There...

Inception's Spinning Top Explains Christopher Nolan's Entire Career - CBR - Comic Book Resources

There’s nothing quite like the final moments of a film, that culmination of everything an audience has witnessed alone in the dark, investing in this fictional world. And while most films don’t end with such a powerful flourish, when they do, that aura can remain well past the ending credits, such as Se7en’s "What’s in the box?" scene, the mind-warping finale to 2001: A Space Odyssey or the long shot on the bus at the end of The Graduate. Among all these films, 2010’s Inception stands out wit...

Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s

Home Lists 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s By Kristy Ambrose Published 1 day ago     Good practical effects tend to age much better than bad CGI, as evidenced by these cheesy yet endearing sci-fi movies from the swinging sixties. The 1960s was an interesting time in the world of movies. Special effects were starting to advance, with creative ...

Has anyone else seen Wag the Dog? Was this movie a wink to Stanley Kubrick?

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Found footage at the receding of the world

Of the various developments following the recent and ongoing reassessments of Stanley Cavell’s writing on film, one of the most important has been some scholars’ proposal of a greater rapprochement between Cavell’s thought and experimental or non-narrative cinema. Increasingly such scholars are recognizing that despite Cavell’s seeming disavowal of experimental film, the implications his writing bears for it are substantial.11 So far, however, there has been no explicit accounting of Cavell’s...

The Secret Scheme of Screens

The Secret Scheme of ScreensSourceURL: https://mindmatters.ai/podcast/ep182/ The Secret Scheme of Screens Andrew McDiarmidApril 14, 2022 Our obsession today with screens is, often unintentionally, taking us to places we regret. We use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits. Andrew McDiarmid interviews Doug Smith, author of the bo...