animation, games, theory, video essay

1850 – How to Disappear by Total Refusal (anti-war short movie 2020)

“How to Disappear” is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion – in both digital and physical-real warfare.

About Total Refusal

Total Refusal is an open artists’ collective which criticizes and artistically appropriates contemporary video games. However, as most mainstream game narratives employ the same infinite loops of reactionary tropes, the genre largely fails to challenge the values of their players and instead affirms hegemonial moral concepts. Acknowledging that this media is currently not realizing its cultural potential, we aim to appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but casting aside the intended gameplay, we rededicate these resources to new activities and narratives, looking to create “public” spaces with a critical potential.

Perpetual Peace Project

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf) 1795 by Immanuel Kant

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Timothy Leary – Neurocomics (1979)

Neurocomics remastered and colored


Artwork by Von Sholly based on the works of Dr. Timothy Leary. Script by Leary, Von Sholly, and George Dicaprio. Timothy Leary on space migration, increasing intelligence and life extension. (goodreads)


Timothy Leary


Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)

Ram Dass, Going Home (2017)

Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001)

Timothy Leary’s Dead (1996)

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967)

My Psychedelic Love Story (2020) trailer 


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1371 – In the Fog (2012)

timespace coordinates: Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. the territory of Belarus (under German occupation)

In the Fog (Russian: В тумане) is a 2012 period drama/ war film directed by Sergei Loznitsa adapted from Vasil’ Bykaw‘s short story. In the Fog is a Germany | Netherlands | Belarus | Russia | Latvia co-production. 

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“Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping.” Farran Smith Nehme / New York Post / rt

imdb   /   wiki

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405 – Zen (2009)

spacetime coordinates: 13th century Japan // China

Zen_(2009-Japan)

Zen () is a 2009 film directed by Banmei Takahashi and starring Nakamura Kantarō II as Dogen, and Yuki Uchida as Orin. 

The film is a biography of Dōgen Zenji, a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. After travelling to China to study, Dogen founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. The Buddhist Film Foundation described it as “a poignant, in-depth, reverent and surprisingly moving portrait of Eihei Dogen.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156470/


Kisa Gotami and the mustard seed


“Having defeated the army of death,

free of fermentations I dwell.”