1216 – Sanatorium pod Klepsydra / The Hourglass Sanatorium  (1973)

Among all the tales there is one, / which you haven’t heard / and which the night reclaimed long ago. / Have you enough patience to listen to it? The Hourglass Sanatorium (Polish: Sanatorium pod klepsydrą) is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. The story follows […]

2208 – The Republic of Dreams (Bruno Schulz portal)

Just recently found this portal searching after the “republic of dreams” dedicated to the alternate reality where Bruno Schulz still lives. We have been covering here dear movies based on his work – like the insanely good Hourglass Sanatorium. URL https://republicofdreams.online/

2043 – Instituting the Beyond

BEYOND SCIENCE BEYOND SANITY BEYOND CONTROL Serenity Trough Technology [/\RB()RI/\ Institute motto 1966] I think one should dedicate more thinking to the various cinematic build environments, the iconic pop cultural institutions and fictional modernist architectures hosting “the Beyond”. There are many instances of cinematographic altered state eeriness and paranormalcy that have an actual headquarters. There is […]

1810 – Zero Sum Game by S L Huang (2018)

Goodreads Zero Sum Game – kind of speculative fiction as developed by S.L. Huang revolutionized, for me at least – how and why action works. We think we know how action movies have this mass appeal, yet why and how does the action suplly those thrills. How did action get so popular or how does […]

744 – Scarred Hearts / Inimi cicatrizate (2016)

timespace coordinates: 1937  Tekirghiol  Romania “Scarred Hearts” is inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher‘s novel, which is set in 1937. It centers on Emanuel, a man in his early 20s, who spends his days at a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast, suffering from bone tuberculosis. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his […]