timespace coordinates: 1874. Butcher’s Crossing, a tiny frontier town in Kansas built on the buffalo hide trade / Colorado wilderness
Butcher’s Crossing is a 2022 American Western drama film directed by Gabe Polsky in his narrative feature film debut, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by John Edward Williams. It stars Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller, Jeremy Bobb, and Paul Raci. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: Set in a dystopian 2067 where humanity is embroiled in a catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humankind.
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film co-written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine.
Kip Thorne, a Caltech theoretical physicist and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics, was an executive producer, acted as a scientific consultant, and wrote a tie-in book, The Science of Interstellar. The film has been praised by astronomers for its scientific accuracy and portrayal of theoretical astrophysics. Since its premiere, Interstellar gained a cult following, and it is now regarded by many experts as one of the best science-fiction films of all time. (wiki)
Cooper : You’re a scientist, Brand. / Brand : So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something. / Cooper : Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing… / Brand : We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that? / Cooper : None. / Brand : Maybe it means something more – something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artefact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it.
There are a series of shows made in the Timpuri Noi: Xenogeneze ale SF-ului Show. They follow the format of regional TV shows on local stations dedicate to the Sci-fi that sprouted all over Romania starting with the late 1970s and 1980s and boomed after 1989 in the 1990s.
After 1989 this was a typical example: the minister for Sports and Tourism became Alexandru Mironov one of the key figures of the SF fandom and its educative branch. He would talk during the news on TV station and then after a certain hour he would be part of the ufology shows – for example discussing the ‘dissection’ of extraterrestrial bodies (probably Roswell related) on the same TV set but during a different time slot. So you had this two contradictory instances and yet at the very same time co-existing one in the same medium.
We tried to expand and deviate – and include artists as well as former members of SF clubs from the 1990s and makers of DIY zines and discuss with interview them on this shows. We hosted various syster alien entities such as: Irina Gheorghe, musical acts such as PLEVNA and FRAGA, Carolina Vozianu to talk about queer speculative fiction and feminist SF, Marius Leftarache to talk about SF sound effects, Jean Lorin Sterian to talk about Constanta SF fandom and COCALAR COSMOS with a live performance.
In the future, we hope to add EN subtitles to these shows, till then they will sadly be only in Romanian. Whoever wants to help out with the translation is very welcome to contribute.
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