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Dirty Gods: Elias Merhige and Drone Horror

"Language bearers. Photographers. Diary Makers. You with your memory are dead, frozen. Lost in a present that never stops passing. Here lives the incantation of matter. A language forever." These are the first words we see on screen as the... Continue Reading →

First Contact: Translation in Cinema Across Continents

Translation is a dark art, and one that flings you into a void space between languages, a space that highlights just how fragile your worldview might be. It's shocking how much language influences your understanding of emotive and epistemological concepts.... Continue Reading →

Spiritual Healing: Russian Folklore and Deep Consciousness

I know I gave a nice little plan about what I was gong to write about in my last article, and that was what I intended to follow - but then I saw Pavel Khvaleev's  'III: The Ritual' (2015) and... Continue Reading →

Conceptual Punishment – Design highlights of Masahiro Ito

I probably talk more about wanting to write about 'Silent Hill' (Team Silent, Konami, 1999) than I do about anything. But that's only because it's so fundamentally unsettling through its surreal exposition, and such a perfect example of contemporary art... Continue Reading →

Holy Mountain: Esoteric Cinema and The Divine

Today we've got another momentous surrealist work which I've definitely been putting off for the simple reason that I can't possibly sum it up. It is of course Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult classic, 'The Holy Mountain'. It has parodies and critiques... Continue Reading →

Journeys: VR Gaming and Art in Digital Space

The process of observation is important with art or anything similar. By witnessing something, the viewer becomes one of the most important parts of the equation. How the viewer experiences art is as much a part of the creative exposition... Continue Reading →

Belleville Rendez-vous: French Animation in Modern Surrealism

This is so nostalgic for me - probably one of the first surreal films I ever saw and it remains to this day one of my favourite films of all time. It sublimely mixes cartoon style plots with surreal animation... Continue Reading →

Creation

Art's a difficult thing to make a living out of. Difficult to get noticed, difficult to get a name in, difficult to stand out - especially if you're living in some garage with barely enough money to eat. It appears... Continue Reading →

A hunted poet

Poetry, novels, politics, resistance in the war effort, surrealism. Robert Desnos was certainly someone who had a broad range of talents. But his role is surrealism during the 1920s was arguably his most influential act in literature - described by... Continue Reading →

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