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Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music. Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs.
Shot in La Grande-Motte, Camargue (FR)
1857 – Paterson (2016)
timespace coordinates: fall 2015, Paterson, New Jersey / the Great Falls of the Passaic River
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)
1843 – My Octopus Teacher (2020)
timespace coordinates: 2010, free-diving in a cold underwater kelp forest at a remote location in False Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa. The location was near Simon’s Town on the Cape Peninsula, which is exposed to the cold Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean.
My Octopus Teacher is a 2020 Netflix Original documentary film directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, which documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest. At the 93rd Academy Awards, it won the award for Best Documentary Feature. (wiki)
1828
“If only plants could speak. From extraordinary flowers to intricate leaf patterns, we admire their expressivity every day… without once wondering what they can teach us about self-expression. Take the plunge into the silent yet endlessly creative vegetal world, and discover a Nietzsche decidedly less conquering and nihilistic than what we’re used to.”
Disclaimer: This video essay is based on Nietzche’s published writings as well as non-canonical texts (ie his Unpublished Fragments).
Academic works that provided inspiration for this video were notably Vanessa Lemm’s article “What we can learn from Plants about the Creation of Values” and Gary Shapiro’s “Earth’s garden happiness: Nietzsche’s Geoaesthetics of the Anthropocene”, both published in the Nietzsche-Studien and freely accessible here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat… https://scholarship.richmond.edu/phil…
Written and illustrated by Zoe Almon Job. Animated and edited by Theo Garcia.
via MR
1822
Zdzisław Beksiński pronounced [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲskʲi] (24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism.
The Medium (video game) (2021)
modelled its supernatural setting after Zdzisław Beksiński’s artwork.
The Medium – Official Live Action Trailer
1767 – Vita & Virginia (2018)
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 Warps 