Category Archive: New Media

24 Mar

Fixing the Machine

Fixing the Machine

A continuation of last month’s post on Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” which is also part six of a continuing series on man and the machine. The …

 
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03 Jan

Host in the Machine

Host in the Machine

There is such a thing as mental pollution and that is what our children must be protected from at an early age. Adults are able to filter those toxins but not children. I was kept away from violently gruesome films until after my mid-teens. Maybe that’s why I can keep my peace. Perhaps others can’t because they were exposed too early.

 
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12 Dec

What Goes in Must Come Out – The Machine as Man

What Goes in Must Come Out – The Machine as Man

Does the rest of the world comprehend now how random citizens go on killing sprees in my country? The malfunction of the American dream is not part of some twisted conspiracy, but an unfortunate side effect of toxins churned up by our misuse of machines.

 
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29 Nov

Man and the Machine

Man and the Machine

Of course, Dave’s journey is assisted by invisible extraterrestrials, with whom he shares some destiny. We can’t rely on such interventions, at least not yet. That’s where the movies come in.

 
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30 Oct

Nature and the Machine

Nature and the Machine

Whenever we buy a movie ticket, or click to a live stream we’re asking for the truth. The same thing that keeps us from seeing the truth while it’s happening to us is what makes it plane as day when we watch it replayed on screen.

 
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30 Sep

“Resisting Domestication, or the Reclamation of our Wild Nature.”

“Resisting Domestication, or the Reclamation of our Wild Nature.”

Most of humankind huddles closely together over the dividing line between poverty and self-sufficiency and Josh Zeitlen’s lens stands squarely over that fulcrum.

 
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25 Aug

Building a Better Venus – Creating Beauty in Our Own Image

Building a Better Venus – Creating Beauty in Our Own Image

Beauty’s story should be interesting to anyone that feels trapped in a man’s world. This should be interesting to all genders when it addresses anxiety generated within our rigidly enforced hierarchy’s dominant sexual codes, and it should be interesting to all humanity in any way it might articulate our frustration when we are confronted with any of life’s polarizing dilemmas.

 
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25 Jul

A Modernist Inversion of a Traditional Theme

A Modernist Inversion of a Traditional Theme

…this main character’s goal is not to idealize Venus so much as expose her as–as what? I am not sure. Is she a fraud, a groupie, a mere mortal, or a beast? Though it is obviously clear what has been exposed to all concerned in the story, the audience must decide for itself what the master has laid bare.

 
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06 Jun

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

The filmmaker has gradually imposed on his audience a hip cinematic predicament, but it’s not our camera, so we can’t be blamed. We are only watching.Right?

 
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31 May

The Cult of Venus in Motion Pictures

The Cult of Venus in Motion Pictures

Few of her modern adherents still connect with her illustrious lineage. Present day folk place are less superstitious and more literal. She’s morphed from The Morning Star into The Ideal Babe, blown up thirty feet tall at the local movie theater.

 
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