Isle de Jean Charles from Go Project Films on Vimeo.
1960s vintage film: speculative future produced by Philco-ford
"a society rich in leisure, and taken for granted comfort"
Shades of Oankali spaceship in "Dawn" by Octavia Butler
What makes this comfort possible?
Watch with Le Guin, Omelas
World on a Wire. 1973. Dir. Fassbinder.
Reality is Colder than Fiction science fiction film by Fassbinder
In June 1968 the science-fiction magazine Galaxy published two lists of sci-fi writers who respectively opposed and supported the US military intervention in Viet-Nam, amongst the supporters was Daniel F. Galouye (3) who had four years earlier published a novel entitled Simulacron III (published in England as The Counterfeit World). Translated into German, Italian and Spanish, Galouye’s book is the literary source of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Welt am Draht (World on a Wire, 1973), the first of two cinematic adaptations of the aforementioned text. (4) ‘Busybodies’, ‘Pollsters’, ‘Reaction Monitors Code’, ‘Certified Reaction Monitors’, ‘Empathy-Surveillance Circuits’, ‘Contact Units’ and ‘Empathy Couplings’ populated Galouye’s futuristic novel set in the year 2034; Fassbinder captures the pervasive apparatus of control already wiring western society, avoiding any exotic aftertime he dramatises the contemporaneity of techno-totalitarianism. With the exception made for few but significant details (temporary re-contextualisation being the foremost), Fassbinder’s adaptation follows quite closely Galouye’s novel, but insists on the ambiguity of perceived reality whilst the book overtly marks the distinction between the authentic and the unauthentic (without ever visually inscribing this difference in the semantics of the narrative). Nonetheless, the absence of a consistent reality is after all implied in the original title of the book: Simulacron III. Simulation in fact, amongst all the terms that indicate the doubling of an object (representation, imitation, copying, etc.) is the one that conveys the absence of an original; if one simulates something, an emotion, a fact, a process, a situation, it is because this something is not there, it is not present and needs to be faked. Simulacra is, according to Mario Perniola, “the image of something that does not exist”. (5)
Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology allowing people to overcome their natural disadvantages and begin life anew. But when her job and family are in crisis, will she undergo the procedure herself?
Short initial film that becomes "District 9" by Neil Bloomkamp
Cliches.. first 10 minutes..
Sniffer by Bobbie Peers
No special effects, just great character, and world where one thing is changed.. and the story unfolds
A Robot Walks into a Bar by Alex Rivera
Rivera is the writer and director of the feature Sleep Dealer
Interview with Lauren Berlant about Affect Theory
article: Where The Cry of Jazz operates most straightforwardly as a documentary, it captures the era's extant styles of jazz (whether you consider them living or, as Alex insists, dead) as performed by the composer-bandleader Sun Ra and his Arkestra just a few years before his total self-transformation into a sci-fi pharaoh. This provides a "pulsating track of sound under the narration and serves to punctuate the protagonist’s long, engrossing lecture with appropriate segments of performance footage and musical counterpoint," writes poet John Sinclair.
The Cry of Jazz
PUMZI from Awali Entertainment on Vimeo.
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