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1692 – Travelers (TV Series 2016–2018)
Hundreds of years from now the last surviving humans have developed the technology to send their consciousnesses back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. (rottentomatoes)
Travelers is a Canadian-American science fiction television series created by Brad Wright, starring Eric McCormack, Mackenzie Porter, Jared Abrahamson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore. (wiki)
1687 – Greenland (2020)
timespace coordinates: 2019 Atlanta, Georgia > Upstate New York > Greenland
Greenland is a 2020 American disaster film directed by Ric Roman Waugh. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also co-produced), Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Scott Glenn.. The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth. (wiki)
Tapisserie de Bayeux – Scène 32 : des hommes observent la comète de Halley – Scène 33 : Harold dans son palais de Westminster
The Cosmic Feminine: Steiner’s View of Cometary Life
1677 – The Reader (2008)
timespace coordinates: Berlin, 1995 >> Neustadt West Germany, 1958
The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German (partly autobiographical) novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. It stars Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, and David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release.
The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. (wiki)
1668 – Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
timespace coordinates: the crew of the USS Enterprise-E travel back in time from the 24th century to the mid-21st century (April 4, 2063, the day before humanity’s first encounter with alien life after Zefram Cochrane‘s historic warp drive flight some time after the Earth had been decimated by the nuclear holocaust of World War III)
Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes (in his motion picture directorial debut) and based on the franchise Star Trek. It is the eighth film in the Star Trek film series, as well as the second to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (wiki)
1667 – Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
timespace coordinates: 2286 > 1986 San Francisco
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film directed by Leonard Nimoy and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the fourth feature installment in the Star Trek film series, and is a sequel to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); it completes the story arc begun in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in The Search for Spock.
Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial for their actions in the previous film, the former crew of the USS Enterprise finds the planet in grave danger from an alien probe attempting to contact now-extinct humpback whales. The crew travel to Earth’s past to find whales who can answer the probe’s call. (wiki)
1652 – “This is not your world:” Extinction and Utopia in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Gregory Marks (October 2020)
This paper was originally presented for Gothic Nature III: New Directions in EcoHorror and the EcoGothic, in October 2020.
repost from: https://thewastedworld.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/nausicaa-extinction/
“As I will argue, the Nausicaä manga (1982-1994), continued by Miyazaki in the decade following the film’s release, systematically undoes the utopianism of its cinematic adaptation.[2] While the film ends with Nausicaä’s messianic rebirth as the mediator between humanity and nature, the manga continues on to disturb the very notions of an independent ‘humanity’ and an undisturbed ‘nature.’ Nausicaä discovers not only that the ‘natural’ world of the mushroom jungle is itself an anthropogenic creation meant to purify the earth, but that the pure earth would be uninhabitable for she and her fellow ‘humans’—because they too were altered to live in a toxic environment. As the monsters of the antediluvian world emerge from their crypts to destroy the earth once more, Nausicaä battles to save a world without a future.”
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