The Vanished World of Gloves Part 2

If you stumbled on this page 1st, please check out Part 1 before you watch this. The Vanished World of Gloves (Zanikly svet rukavic) Jirí Barta,1982 [Part 2/2]...

The Vanished World of Gloves Part 1

The Vanished World of Gloves (Zanikly svet rukavic) Jirí Barta,1982 [Part 1/2] Silent Someone has posted this on YouTube. I’m so fond of this film and used to use it with my film students to introduce them to genre theory. Czechs, love em. Part...

Steampunk Intranet of Brazil

Over lunch I started to mull over movie depictions of the intranet. I like the idea of film as a sort collective unconsciousness.  There’s quite a few films where some sort of computer network and database is central to the narrative, but I can only think of one where an intranet is central to the...

Pure Commodity Fetishism

I like this video as it combines animation, origami and commodity fetishism. Money begets money in a magical union. See Taussig’s The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America for some of the fantastic forms this takes – money mating with money in the tills to make more money. This is a...

Alice Mashup

Thanks to Dazed Magazine for pointing out this most enjoyable Alice mashup by Fagottron. The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In...

Neat Viral: Dr Manhattan

It’s a little known fact that I used buy comics from the same market stall in Northampton’s Market Square, that Alan Moore bought his. Of more note, it’s going to be a little more interesting to see how social media gets used here following on from the example set by X-Men and Dr...

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