Alphaville (1965) 99 Min With no special sets, shot on location in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard cast B-Film Detective Eddie Constantine with Anna Karina to make a dystopian comment on the dehumanizing nature of a technology, using self-referential film noir techniques that often mock the genre. Blinding headlights flash Flash on and off neurotic codes … More Alphaville (1965)
Sorry for the Inconvenience I didn’t realize those were your toes When I dropped the pickaxe. I just assumed Gold lay under spackled nails. I love to apologize. I just can’t help myself From doing wrong, like when I shoved my hand Down your throat to retrieve my silver bullet. Apparently I … More Sorry for the Inconvenience
In The Land of Toys “In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!” ― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio … More In The Land of Toys
TOON CACOPHONY [A Google Poem] To swell the gourd, stellar flashes of energy! Art is one of the last stongholds of magic, Mermaids, donuts, and musical concrete That video gamers create to defeat the machines. The weekly animal market in Baghdad, trilling Songbirds, barking dogs and bleating goats — The mundane mixes with the … More TOON CACOPHONY [A Google Poem]
Spike Chinese Firecrackers for a suit, Hayseed gumshoes, straw hat Raw and flat as cymbals Ready for attack. Whack! From which art-deco cube Did you crack all the woodwork up — Xylophone to garbage cans, with Persuasive percussion! Wipe that grin off your face. It broke My heart when I tripped and … More Spike
Nano-Art (3 seconds. Loop). A brief example of nano-art, derived from gif-mentality. Popular as a movement in the United States, due to decreasing attention span. Art has at most three seconds To say something And then repeat it endlessly. Some snippets any art historian Could spot — Name, date, and serial number. … More Nano-Art (3 seconds. Loop)
Modern Slavery The conquered were not citizens, Livia Drusilla knew, so her Roman etiquette was attended by invisible hands whose bodies sometimes came into view when their assistance became indispensable. The more familiar the help, the more likely servitude could acquire a personal name, especially as being of service became a … More Modern Slavery
Gogol’s Nose (1963) 12 Min. Animation. Gogol’s absurdist short story has inspired many short film adaptations, but none so remarkable as this made entirely on pinscreen by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker. for film go here: The fact that Gogol’s nose fled his face seems weird, not fit enough for news to join … More Gogol’s Nose (1963)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) 138 Min. Nicholas Roeg’s contrapuntal interconnecting stories of an alien (David Bowie) who crashes on earth trying to find water for his dying planet; a story of a disillusioned scientist with ribald sexual activities (Rip Torn) who agrees to work with him; the passionate and disruptive love from … More The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
“SARS Wars” (Thai: ขุนกระบี่ผีระบาด or Khun krabii hiiroh, also subtitled Bangkok Zombie Crisis) is a 2004 Thai horror-comedy film directed and co-written by Taweewat Wantha. [Due to copyright laws, certain images have been restricted.] “We loves a good story retold many times Cause we always knows where we are And what we should feel, … More “Sars Wars” (2004)
