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BLACK MIRROR (TV series, first season. 2011- present)
I think here is where Black Mirror comes in, in that terrifying and consciousness-expanding moment when you realise that your comfortable home is actually an interrogation room.
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A Field In England (2013)
Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lay behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they question what treasure lies within the malignant…
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All the World’s Memory (Alain Resnais 1956)
Not really being able to continue slumbering in the Bucharest tropical clime, I stumbled upon All the World’s Memory (via the the great blog of @TheFunambulist_), demonstrating that libraries or just simple reading spaces can be cool, shady and generous places. Even more than that, they can be huge places of slow digestion, like the…
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THEMROC (1973) The Police Eater
For starters, Themroc isn’t spoken in any human language we know. It’s a cult classic that questions most of mores, habits and hierarchies of modern civilisation. It is one of the most radical and radicalising movies I have seen lately. Directed by Claude Faraldo and played by Michel Piccoli (whom we’ve seen in the recent…
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Buddha’s Lost Children (2006)
In the borderlands of Thailand’s Golden Triangle, a rugged region known for its drug smuggling and impoverished hill tribes, one man devotes himself to the welfare of the region’s children. A former Thai boxer, turned Buddhist monk, Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto travels widely on horseback, fearlessly dispensing prayers and tough-love. With his Golden…
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed “The Artist is Present,” a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum’s atrium,…
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Ostrov – The Island (2006)
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. spiritual message (from wikipedia) The film is focused on father Anatoly’s repentance of…
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Transcendent Man (2009)
Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the technological singularity, a proposed…