Stealing Reason from God - Theft in Time Bandits and The Fisher King

Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...

Black Mirror makes us feel terrible for loving true crime

We are a society obsessed with murder most foul. From serial killers to kidnappers, mass murderers to family annihilators, true crime very much remains our genre du jour—so much so that a 2022 poll found that a whopping half of Americans enjoy blitzing through true-crime titles on streaming services, with another 13 percent going as far as to say it’s their favorite genre. Their favorite. Suck on that, drama, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, and romance.Dermot Mulroney on possible actors strike, "Sec...

Black Mirror Review - Sixth Season

The sixth season of "Black Mirror," Charlie Brooker’s award-winning anthology series that Netflix turned into an original in 2016, might be the most inconsistent in the show’s history. At first, it’s tempting to dismiss it entirely as a production that’s past its sell-by date, especially given how much the world has changed in the four years since the last installment. Those feelings surface most of all when the season feels like something put together after Brooker put some hot-button topics...

Black Mirror Has Always Excelled at Dystopian Design—Here Are 5 ... - Yahoo News

Futuristic interior design in television and film has captivated audiences for decades. As early as the 1960s films like Barbarella and 2001: A Space Odyssey told us walls lined in metallic silvers, heavily minimal white spaces, and geometric shapes were going to be key parts of our home design. The future then was rooted in space (technology) and the unknown (possibility), and so space-age design became popular in homes and in film. It was meant to give viewers a visual representation of fut...

Black Mirror - Beyond the Sea - dark ending

Clip source: %27Black%20Mirror%27s%20%22Beyond%20the%20Sea%22%20gives%20us%20one%20of%20the%20series%27%20darkest%20endings%20ever%20%7C%20Mashable https://mashable.com/ TV Shows Black Mirror'Black Mirror's "Beyond the Sea" gives us one of the series' darkest endings ever Season 6 delivers pure, dark, cold hell. By Shannon Connellan on June 15, 2023 All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable m...

Canon-Breaking Easter Eggs in Black Mirror S6

Black Mirror is an anthology, but it’s never shied away from connecting its stories together. From Season 1 through Netflix’s interactive Bandersnatch, each self-contained tale always seems to tie into a handful of others. There was even a whole episode, "Black Museum," chock full of "artifacts" from other episodes. Season 6 is no different. In fact, this season might have more Easter Eggs than any other, including one that harkens all the way back to the very first episode. Streamberry Is Fu...

Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

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...

Mirror-less camera (thing) by The Debutante - Everything2.com

Mirror-less camera (thing) See all of Mirror-less camera, no other writeups in this node. There are lots of different types of camera out there, from pinholes that you can make yourself using a cardboard box, to large format cameras that use one sheet of film per exposure, via instamatics and 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. Recently, however, there has been a trend towards 'mirror-less cameras'. They are commonly seen as a bridge between compact cameras and SLRs, but there's a b...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Interview with Christopher Tollefsen

One of the goals of this series is to explore the impact of technology on ordinary lives, especially the underappreciated negative aspects of the inexorable march of scientific advancement.  A very practical example is the accelerating use of medical advice and technology to terminate life.  A related question is the extent to which, by artificial means, we extend life.  To explore the bioethical implications of technology, I reached out to Professor Christopher Tollefsen of the University of...

Seeing Double

Gale Literature Resource Center Font Size SEEING DOUBLE A familiar Victorian superstition claims that a mirror's reflection captures a portion of the soul; breaking a mirror, therefore, injures the spirit of the person who broke it. For this reason, the use of a mirror entailed a set of safety guidelines and instructions: if a relative had recently died, mirrors in the...

Shame, Stigma and Identification in Black Mirror - Shut Up and Dance

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Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back” | SpringerLink

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