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timespace coordinates: 1945 by the seaside in Kent
Summerland is a 2020 British drama film written and directed by Jessica Swale. It stars Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond, Dixie Egerickx, Siân Phillips, Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay.
The film stars Arterton as a reclusive writer who is forced to bond with a young boy who has been entrusted to her care after the London Blitz. (wiki)
imdb / rt / Fata Morgana / The Summerland
A dark tale of Love & Dismemberment.
Made at the Royal College of Art
With lots of help from the following wonderful people –
OSWALD SKILLBARD – Sound and Music design! – skillbard.com/
MATT KING – Narrated it! – facebook.com/matt.king.official
Animation help from the wonderful and kind –
Ferenczy András – duajisin.com/
Loup Blaster (Loup did loads) – cargocollective.com/loupblaster
John Clinch – cargocollective.com/clinch
Thea Glad – theaglad.co.uk/
Oliver Hamilton – hamhead.tumblr.com/
Doug Hindson – doughindson.com/
Sumaya Kilani –sumayak.tumblr.com/
Matt King (a different one) – mattjking.tumblr.com/
Joe Sparkes – joesparkes.co.uk/
Joe Sparrow – joe-sparrow.com/
Imogen Woolley – cargocollective.com/iswoolley
Tara Wood – taramercedeswood.tumblr.com/
And actual real instrument performances by
Panos Ghikas – violin
Johannes Von Weizsacker – cello
And additional sound design by
Patrick Goodden – stagejobspro.com/uk/view.php?uid=546853
There’s also a load about it on my Tumblr! – joebichard.tumblr.com/
You should also follow me on Twitter – twitter.com/joebichard
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)
timespace coordinates: 2000’s Mexico, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, USA, China, Japan, Italy, Morocco, Spain, South Africa, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia
Around the World in 80 Gardens is a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visits 80 of the world’s most celebrated gardens. A book based on the series was also published. (wiki)
(~timespace coordinates:) Over 100 years ago, the meteor “Moon Dragon” struck a tropical holiday resort. Most of the inhabitants perished, while those who survived began to show strange mutations… The rescue missions quickly retreated, and those who remained in the mutating environment founded the small and isolated community of Mutazione.
Fast-forward to modern day, where you play as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to Mutazione to help nurse her dying grandfather back to health.
Mutazione is a 2019 adventure exploration video game created by Danish developer Die Gute Fabrik. It launched for Windows, MacOS, PlayStation 4, and on IOS through Apple Arcade on Sep 19, 2019.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (Windows – MINIMUM): Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system / OS: Windows 7 / Processor: 2.6 GHz / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: GeForce 700 Series / Storage: 3 GB available space
“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
timespace coordinates: 2257 AD, planet New World
Chaos Walking is a 2021 dystopian action film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford. It is based on the sci-fi trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008’s The Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness. It is a USA | Canada | Hong Kong co-production.
It stars Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, along with Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, and David Oyelowo.
It follows a young man (Holland) who lives in a dystopian world without women, where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called “Noise.” When a woman (Ridley) crash lands on the planet, he must help her escape danger. (wiki)
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