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1857 – Paterson (2016)

timespace coordinates: fall 2015, Paterson, New Jersey / the Great Falls of the Passaic River

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Paterson is a 2016 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and Golshifteh Farahani as his wife. The poet Ron Padgett provided the poems attributed to the character Paterson, while Jarmusch wrote the poem “Water Falls” attributed to a young girl in the film. (wiki)

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. (imdb)

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1854 – The Djinn (2021)

timespace coordinates: fall of 1989, US

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The Djinn is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed and written by David Charbonier and Justin Powell. The film stars  Ezra Dewey as a mute boy trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster when he makes a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire.

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1853 – Summerland (2020)

timespace coordinates: 1945 by the seaside in Kent

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Summerland is a 2020 British drama film written and directed by Jessica Swale. It stars Gemma ArtertonGugu Mbatha-RawLucas BondDixie EgerickxSiân PhillipsPenelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay.

The film stars Arterton as a reclusive writer who is forced to bond with a young boy who has been entrusted to her care after the London Blitz. (wiki)

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1848 – The Courier (2020)

timespace coordinates: 1960 – 1963 London, England – Moscow,  the Soviet Union / Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to deliver messages to secret agent Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze). Rachel BrosnahanJessie Buckley, and Angus Wright also star. (wiki)

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1847 – SAS: Red Notice (2021)

timespace coordinates: late 2010’s Eurostar Train – London to Paris / Channel Tunnel

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SAS: Red Notice is a 2021 British action thriller film directed by Magnus Martens, based on the novel of the same name by Andy McNab and starring Sam HeughanRuby RoseAndy SerkisHannah John-KamenTom Hopper and Noel Clarke. (wiki)
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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 /ˌɒn 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 fictionbiopunkallegorydystopian fictionspy fictionpsychological dramapostmodern 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)


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1842 – Amundsen (2019)

timespace coordinates: Amundsen’s South Pole expedition 1910 – 1911, North Polar Expeditions and The Northeast Passage 1918 – 1926

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Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872 – 1928). It was directed by Espen Sandberg and was distributed in Norway by SF Studios. (wiki)

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