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TOKYO GHOST [Image Comics – Rick Remender & Sean Murphy, Matt Hollingsworth 2015]
“Look I didn’t create the problem. Robotics did the farming, mining, manufacturing, construction… Everything. Left an unemployed population with a lot of free time. So I keep them entertained. I make them comfortable. So I gave them each their own channel. When human life became worthless I gave it Value” – Mr Flak founder of
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Telegrams for the Little Sea Winds [Makunouchi Bento/ Santiago J. Franzani music video 2015]
Nothing is better with this sudden chill and pre-Halloween trepidation than this long-in-the-making music video. Well worth all the effort because this is how a new island is born out of the primordial animation ocean! It features the dreamquest of an shipwrecked soul on unfamiliar shores, where collapsed megalithic heads of a long lost
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The Council of the Gods [Der Rat der Götter, Kurt Maetzig/East Germany 1950]
This is an East German propaganda film based on Richard Sasuly’s book IG Farben from 1947. Sasuly was one of the first to write and investigate the implication of Big Business oligarchy in the Nazi War effort. His book is not easy to find – so I would recommend a look at the detailed notes
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Death Machine (1994, UK, Stephen Norrington)
There is an endless array of youtube versions available of the movie, because it was mercilessly recut and reissued under various editions. It makes a good double feature with The Tower (1993). It’s also a movie who has characters named after Ridley Scott, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi – arguably the most influential sci-fi/horror
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The Tower (TV, 1993)
The Tower has a lot to say about the occult nature of corporations. INTERCORP – the filmic corporation may be the first truly artificial, openly anti-human conglomerate, debugging itself as it debugs its human ’employees’ and their damaging activities and blunders. We can see but we cannot stop what its electronic eyes can scan, running