1884 – Nomadland (2020)

timespace coordinates: early 2010’s American West (Nevada, Arizona, South Dakota, Nebraska, California)

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. The film is written, produced, directed, and edited by Chloé Zhao, and stars Frances McDormand (who is also a producer on the film) as a vandwelling working nomad who leaves her hometown after her husband dies and the sole industry closes down, to be “houseless” and travel around the United States. 

A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. (wiki)

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1883 – Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

timespace coordinates: 1920’s (filmed over a period of about 3 years) – urban life in the Soviet cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa.

The film Man with a Movie Camera represents
AN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CINEMATIC COMMUNICATION
Of visual phenomena
WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERTITLES
(a film without intertitles)
WITHOUT THE HELP OF A SCENARIO
(a film without a scenario)
WITHOUT THE HELP OF THEATRE
(a film without actors, without sets, etc.)
This new experimentation work by Kino-Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature.

Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с кино-аппаратом, romanized: Chelovek s kino-apparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet Ukrainian silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Yelizaveta Svilova.

Man with a Movie Camera was largely dismissed upon its initial release; the work’s fast cutting, self-reflexivity, and emphasis on form over content were all subjects of criticism. In the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll, however, film critics voted it the 8th greatest film ever made, and it was later named the best documentary of all time in the same magazine. (wiki)

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1882 – Siberia (2020)

Siberia is a 2020 psychological thriller / horror film directed by Abel Ferrara.

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1878 – Sweet Tooth (TV Series 2021– )

spacetime coordinates: Ten years after “The Great Crumble”, a virus that killed many people in the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrid babies born part human, part animal.

Sweet Tooth is an American fantasy drama streaming television series developed by Jim Mickle. It is based on the comic book of the same name by Jeff Lemire and premiered on Netflix on June 4, 2021. (wiki)

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1877

Occupation is a 2018 Australian science fiction action film, directed and written by Luke Sparke.

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trivia: The opening narration is Ronald Reagan’s speech to the UN.

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A sequel, Occupation: Rainfall, was released in 2021.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl on steam

1875 – Infinite (2021)

Infinite is a 2021 American science fiction action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. Ian Shorr wrote the screenplay based off a story by Todd Stein, who in-turn adapted D. Eric Maikranz‘s 2009 novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones, and Dylan O’Brien. (wiki)

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