Graduation film, “I am Billy”, from Bezalel Academy of art and design 2016
Billy, an optimistic and cheerful nomad, goes on a journey to a mysteries orchard.
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Graduation film, “I am Billy”, from Bezalel Academy of art and design 2016
Billy, an optimistic and cheerful nomad, goes on a journey to a mysteries orchard.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ― William Faulkner
Antebellum is a 2020 American psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. It stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a modern-day African American woman who must escape from a 19th-century Southern slave plantation.
There, very low down in the western sky, about a couple of yards, according to human measurement, above the bounding wall of the enclosure, was the coracle-like crystal shell of the crescent moon in her first quarter.
There was nothing to which it could be compared! Unique, in all the universe of matter, if only by reason of the associations hung about it of twenty-five thousand years of human yearning, it floated there before her, daughter and darling of the dark terrestrial orb, elf-waif of the infinite night!
John Cowper Powys | A Glastonbury Romance
timespace coordinates: World War II-era Berlin (September 1940 – April 1943)
Alone in Berlin is a 2016 war drama film directed by Vincent Pérez, based on the 1947 non-fiction book Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. The novel’s characters Otto and Anna Quangel are based on Otto and Elise Hampel.
When their son dies in France, the couple start writing postcards to urge people to protest against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. The film stars Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, and Mikael Persbrandt.
The Irish Times wrote: “the film offers a fascinating and timely blueprint for political dissent, a methodology that connects with pamphleteering, graffiti, and memes.” (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1945, 1950, 1957, 1965 rural southern Ohio and West Virginia
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock, who also voiced the narration in the film. Directed and co-written by Antonio Campos and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Randall Poster, the film stars an ensemble cast comprising Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1123 > 1992 northern France
Les Visiteurs (French pronunciation: [le vizitœʁ]; English: The Visitors) is a French fantasy comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and released in 1993. In this comedy, a 12th-century knight (Jean Reno) and his squire (Christian Clavier) travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.
timespace coordinates: 1123 / 1998 northern France
Les Couloirs du temps : Les Visiteurs II (French pronunciation: [lɛ vizitœːʁ kulwaːʁ dy tɑ̃]; English: The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time) is a sequel to the original French film, Les Visiteurs.
timespace coordinates: time-traveling medieval knight Godefroy de Montmirail and his servant Jacquouille la Fripouille arrive in 1793, in the middle of the French revolution, and find themselves caught up in the Reign of Terror.
The Visitors: Bastille Day (original title: Les Visiteurs: La Révolution) is a 2016 French-Belgian-Czech comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré.