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1860 – Everything Is Wrong
1850 – How to Disappear by Total Refusal (anti-war short movie 2020)
“How to Disappear” is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion – in both digital and physical-real warfare.
About Total Refusal
Total Refusal is an open artists’ collective which criticizes and artistically appropriates contemporary video games. However, as most mainstream game narratives employ the same infinite loops of reactionary tropes, the genre largely fails to challenge the values of their players and instead affirms hegemonial moral concepts. Acknowledging that this media is currently not realizing its cultural potential, we aim to appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but casting aside the intended gameplay, we rededicate these resources to new activities and narratives, looking to create “public” spaces with a critical potential.
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf) 1795 by Immanuel Kant
1849 – The Waldgeist & Me – by Joe Bichard (animation short 2014)
A dark tale of Love & Dismemberment.
Made at the Royal College of Art
With lots of help from the following wonderful people –
OSWALD SKILLBARD – Sound and Music design! – skillbard.com/
MATT KING – Narrated it! – facebook.com/matt.king.official
Animation help from the wonderful and kind –
Ferenczy András – duajisin.com/
Loup Blaster (Loup did loads) – cargocollective.com/loupblaster
John Clinch – cargocollective.com/clinch
Thea Glad – theaglad.co.uk/
Oliver Hamilton – hamhead.tumblr.com/
Doug Hindson – doughindson.com/
Sumaya Kilani –sumayak.tumblr.com/
Matt King (a different one) – mattjking.tumblr.com/
Joe Sparkes – joesparkes.co.uk/
Joe Sparrow – joe-sparrow.com/
Imogen Woolley – cargocollective.com/iswoolley
Tara Wood – taramercedeswood.tumblr.com/
And actual real instrument performances by
Panos Ghikas – violin
Johannes Von Weizsacker – cello
And additional sound design by
Patrick Goodden – stagejobspro.com/uk/view.php?uid=546853
There’s also a load about it on my Tumblr! – joebichard.tumblr.com/
You should also follow me on Twitter – twitter.com/joebichard
1846 – Æon Flux
timespace coordinates: Æon Flux (imdb) is set in a surreal German Expressionist style futuristic universe of the year 7698 AD. Æon Flux is comprised of a bizarre post-apocalyptic dystopian world of a barren wasteland, mutant creatures, clones, and robots within the last two border wall cities of Monica and Bregna (similar to the Berlin wall) somewhere in former Eastern Europe after an environmental catastrophe occured that wiped out 99 percent of the global population. The title character is a tall, sexy, dominatrix scantily-clad secret agent from the city of Monica, skilled in espionage, assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the city of Bregna, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of Bregna. The two sister cities engage in a futile never ending war for ideological supremacy; while Monica represents a dynamic nihilistic anarchist society where rules don’t exist, Bregna embodies a centralized scientific planned Orwellian police state. The names of their respective characters reflect this: Flux as the self-directed agent from Monica and Goodchild as the self-appointed leader of Bregna.
The term Æon comes from the Gnostic notion of Æons as emanations of the God, who come in male/female pairs (here Flux and Goodchild).
Æon Flux /ˌiːɒn ˈflʌks/ is an American avant-garde science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV from November 30, 1991 until October 10, 1995, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter. It premiered on MTV’s Liquid Television experimental animation show, as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995, a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series. Æon Flux was created by American animator Peter Chung. Each Episode plots have elements of social science fiction, biopunk, allegory, dystopian fiction, spy fiction, psychological drama, postmodern visual, psychedelic imagery and Gnostic symbolism.
timespace coordinates: In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus has killed 99% of the Earth’s population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth. 404 years later, in late 2415, all of the survivors inhabit Bregna, a dystopian walled futuristic city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists.
The live-action movie Æon Flux (imdb), loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron, was released in theaters on December 2, 2005, preceded in November of that year by a tie-in video game of the same name (Gameplay) based mostly on the movie but containing some elements of the original TV series. (wiki)
1845 – The Animatrix (2003)
timespace coordinates: The Second Renaissance and Machine War – 2090s / around 2199 or perhaps 500 years later. (relative timeline of The Matrix series)
The Animatrix (Japanese: アニマトリックス, Hepburn: Animatorikkusu) is a 2003 animated science fiction anthology film produced by the Wachowskis. It is a compilation of nine animated short films based on The Matrix trilogy.
The film details the backstory of The Matrix series, including the original war between humankind and machines which led to the creation of the titular Matrix. (wiki)
1839 – Justice Society: World War II (2021)
timespace coordinates: Metropolis >> early 1940s France, the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, Manhattan.
Justice Society: World War II is an American animated direct-to-video superhero film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment. It is the 41st film in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.
The Justice Society of America (JSA) is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The team was conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The JSA first appeared in All Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940–1941), making it the first team of superheroes in comic books.
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