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spacetime coordinates: 1980’s Florida
No Man of God is a 2021 American crime mystery film directed by Amber Sealey and written by Kit Lesser. The film stars Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino and Robert Patrick. It is based on real life transcripts selected from conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier that happened between 1984 and 1989. (wiki)
No Longer Human manga (Goodreads)
Hardcover, 616 pages
Published December 17th 2019 by VIZ Media
Philosopher Eugene Thacker (In the Dust of this Planet, The Global Genome, After Life, Biomedia, Tentacles Longer Than Night and many more) wrote in 2016 for The Japan Times a series of Black Illumination introductory (5 min) texts. They are behind a paywall, but saving them in Pocket you can actually read them all. His investigation of Japanese modernist estrangement, inhumanism and existential & cosmic (both somehow gazing into each other) pessimism is both brief, synthetic without spoiling the potential of these Japanese authors mangakas, philosophers, mad suicidal writers (Junji Ito, Keiji Nishitani, Osamu Dazai, Haruo Sato) for limitless collapse and vacuousness. In the words of my friend Bogdan Otaku Gorganeanu – Junji Ito won’t probably topple this one manga, it goes into regions far darker than those populated by Spirals and ambling arthropod sharks.
Black Illumination: the disqualified life of Osamu Dazai
Black illumination: the unhuman world of Junji Ito
timespace coordinates: 1960 – 1963 London, England – Moscow, the Soviet Union / Cuban Missile Crisis
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 Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, and Angus Wright also star. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: Amundsen’s South Pole expedition 1910 – 1911, North Polar Expeditions and The Northeast Passage 1918 – 1926
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)
timespace coordinates: 1920’s London
Vita & Virginia is a 2018 biographical romantic drama film directed by Chanya Button, adapted from the 1992 play Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins. The film stars Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki,
Vita & Virginia tells the story of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: Suffolk, in the east of England, 1939 – excavation of Sutton Hoo
The Dig (stylized as the DIG) is a drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes and Monica Dolan.
Edith May Pretty was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local archaeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
imdb / wiki / archive footage / Sutton Hoo – BBC Documentary (youtube) / Smarthistory
timespace coordinates: The film loosely tells the story of Gareth Jones, a journalist from Wales, who in 1933 travels to the Soviet Union and uncovers the truth about the Holodomor, the man-made famine in Ukraine in which millions died.
Mr Jones (Polish: Obywatel Jones; Ukrainian: Ціна правди) is a 2019 biographical thriller film directed by Agnieszka Holland. (wiki)
Gareth Jones’ great-nephew Colley told the Sunday Times: “In the film, they have got him up a tree eating bark, eating human flesh, tripping over dead bodies. He didn’t witness any dead bodies or any cannibalism, let alone take part in any. They’ve made Gareth a victim of the famine, rather than a witness.” (read more: walesonline)
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