The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become essential within the art cinema, his films are characterized by exploring obsessions such as alienation and disorientation produced by a gap between language and reality, the robotic repetition of social conventions , dystopia, and the use of catharsis as an escape route. There is no better way to …
You can walk from there to ChinaFrom state to reptilian stateHoly Americans, singing vespersConvinced that they control somebody’s fate Mark Lanegan, Night Flight to Kabul February 2022 was one of the stranger months in the dystopian blur of the last two years: I am reading David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard in tiny doses and laconically …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Many directors have portrayed the near or distant future in their films. Some have done it with optimism, others with pessimism, but very few have dared to analyze the social, political and catastrophic repercussions of a collapsed present that is totally devoid of a promising future. Apparently, the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón …
There are two kinds of conspiracies- those of events like John F. Kennedy’s murder or 9/11, which to this day remain highly suspicious and factually left too many questions open for the countless scientists and historians on the search for truth. Such conspiracies are valid, since history is full of lies and collusion by two …
Immediately I’m filled with nervous tension and excitement. The harsh electronic beat stirs something deep. The back of my head burns slightly. By the time the cool and detached vocal starts, I’m both hooked and convinced that I am hearing some renegade military message. It’s as if this harsh but always feminine voice is speaking, …
Work was never really finished for the employees of Rextel Corporation. So when R24 and Q103 would glaze out beyond the huge window of their Life Dome, they knew they were taking the time. Both lived within a vast territory called “Life Dome 3”. By 2050 most of the world’s population lived within similar facilities. …
