2294 – El hoyo / The Platform (2019)

The Platform (Spanish: El hoyo, transl. The Hole) is a 2019 Spanish social science fiction film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.

The film is set in a large, tower-style “Vertical Self-Management Center.” Its residents, who are switched every month between its many floors, are fed via a platform which, initially filled with food at the top floor, gradually descends through the tower’s levels, stopping for a fixed amount of time on each. The system inevitably leads to conflict, as the residents at the top levels get to eat as much as they can, with each level only getting the leftovers from the previous ones.

The film’s cast includes Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale Coka and Alexandra Masangkay. (wiki)

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2279 – Beau Is Afraid (2023)

Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 American surrealist tragicomedy horror film written and directed by Ari Aster, who also serves as a co-producer.

The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the title character, Beau Wassermann, and also includes a supporting ensemble cast consisting of Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Kind.

Its plot follows the mild-mannered but paranoia-ridden Beau as he embarks on a surreal odyssey to get home to attend his mother’s funeral, confronting his greatest fears along the way. (wiki)

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2267 – yesterday evening

Recently declassified television ad from the Department of Lost Media for “Pizza Nuggets”. Along with the ad, various forms and docs filed to never attempt mixture of Chicken Nuggets and Pizza again, as the chemical properties lead to quickly disintegrating half life that causes mutations in all physical things.

Inspired by @pizza_later “Pepperoni Hug Spot” video:    • Pepperoni Hug Spo…  

Video Created entirely with text to video prompts with @RunwayML Gen-2

Music: Instrumental: “Exploring all Possibilities” by Marc Torch  //  Vocals by AI Lost Media  //  Chat GPT wrote most of the vocals with slight changes here and there

2261 – Smile (2022)

(!!!disturbing content!!!)

Smile is a 2022 American psychological supernatural horror film written and directed by Parker Finn (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn’t Slept (imdb).

The film stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences, leading her to believe what she is experiencing is supernatural. It also stars Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan, as well as Caitlin Stasey playing the same character she played in the short film. (wiki)

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2190 – 1899 (TV Series 2022– )

spacetime coordinates: October 1899, a group of European migrants is travelling from London on a steamship named Kerberos to start new lives in New York City.

1899 is a multilingual German epic period mystery-science fiction streaming television series created by Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar (dark). It premiered on Netflix on 17 November 2022. (wiki)

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2189 – Slumberland (2022)

Slumberland is a 2022 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence. It is based on the comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winsor McCay. The film stars Jason Momoa and Marlow Barkley with Chris O’Dowd, Kyle Chandler and Weruche Opia in supporting roles. (wiki)

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2186 – The Woman King (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 1820’s the West African kingdom of Dahomey

The Woman King is a 2022 American historical epic film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. The film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies. It is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Dana Stevens, based on a story she wrote with Maria Bello. The film also stars Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, and John Boyega.

(historical accuracy) John Boyega plays King Ghezo, a real-life figure who ruled Dahomey from 1818 to 1858 and engaged in the Atlantic slave trade through the end of his reign. Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays the white Portuguese-speaking slave trader Santo Ferreira who is fictional and portrayed as an enemy to Ghezo. History vs. Hollywood said the character was “possibly loosely inspired” by Francisco Félix de Sousa, a Brazilian slave trader who in actuality helped Ghezo gain power.

Historically, Dahomey was a kingdom that conquered other African states and enslaved their citizens to sell in the Atlantic slave trade, and most of the kingdom’s wealth was derived from slavery. The Agojie had a history of participating in slave raiding, and slavery in Dahomey persisted after the British Empire stopped Dahomey from continuing in the Atlantic slave trade.

In the film’s setting of the 1820s, Nanisca confronts Ghezo about the immorality of selling Dahomey slaves to the Portuguese and suggests trading in palm oil production instead. Nanisca being fictional, the confrontation did not take place. Smithsonian wrote, “Though Ghezo did at one point explore palm oil production as an alternative source of revenue, it proved far less lucrative, and the king soon resumed Dahomey’s participation in the slave trade.” wiki

The film does not mention or depict the Kingdom of Dahomey’s practice of human sacrifice. (read more: A look at Dahomey’s gory history of human sacrifices on a large scale)

The all-woman Dora Milaje regiment featured in Black Panther is based on the Dahomey warriors.

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