Director : Xavier Burgin
Stars : Rusty Cundieff, Ernest R. Dickerson, Robin R. Means Coleman, Jordan Peele Genre : Documentary
A look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.
timespace coordinates: 2257 AD, planet New World
Chaos Walking is a 2021 dystopian action film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford. It is based on the sci-fi trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008’s The Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness. It is a USA | Canada | Hong Kong co-production.
It stars Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, along with Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, and David Oyelowo.
It follows a young man (Holland) who lives in a dystopian world without women, where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called “Noise.” When a woman (Ridley) crash lands on the planet, he must help her escape danger. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2024. Skull Island, Antarctica, Florida, Hong Kong, the Pacific Ocean, Philadelphia, Tasman Sea / Hollow Earth
Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard. A sequel to both Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Kong: Skull Island (2017), it is the fourth film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. It is also the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 12th film in the King Kong franchise, and the fourth Godzilla film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio. (wiki)
Zdzisław Beksiński pronounced [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲskʲi] (24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism.
modelled its supernatural setting after Zdzisław Beksiński’s artwork.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (Windows, MINIMUM): OS: Windows XP SP2, Processor: 1 GHz, Memory: 512 MB RAM, Graphics: GeForce 6 or Radeon X1000, DirectX: Version 9.0c, Storage: 680 MB available space
timespace coordinates: (post-apocalyptic) New London / The Savage Lands (amusement park) The series “imagines an utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself.” In an update of the original novel, an artificial intelligence system named Indra also connects citizens via a wireless network.
Brave New World is an American social science fiction drama series. It is loosely based on the classic novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. It premiered on the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock on July 15, 2020, In October 2020, the series was canceled after one season. (wiki)
Published in [in]Transition 7.3: mediacommons.org/intransition/amuse-%C5%93il
A manifesto for Critical Media
Biography
Eric Faden is an Associate Professor of Film/Media Studies at Bucknell University. His research has appeared in Early Popular Visual Culture, Strategies, Convergence, The Journal of Film and Video plus the anthologies Arrêt Sur Image and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies. Faden also creates videographic works that explore how scholarly research might appear as visual media. These experimental films are distributed commercially (Third World Newsreel, Media Education Foundation), published in on-line journals (Vectors, Mediascape, The Cine-Files, and [in]Transition), and screen internationally (The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania and the Contemporary Culture Center in Montpellier, France).
