movies

0340 – Split Second (1992)

spacetime coordinates:  year 2008 flooded dystopian future London

split second posterSplit Second is a 1992 American-British science fiction horror film  directed by Tony Maylam and Ian SharpRutger Hauer stars as a burnt-out police detective obsessively hunting down the mysterious serial killer that killed his partner several years prior.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105459/

movies

0338 – Doomsday (2008)

spacetime coordinates: 2035 Glasgow // London

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Doomsday is a 2008 science fiction action horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future in Scotland, which has been quarantined because of a deadly virus.

When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) to Scotland to find a possible cure. Sinclair’s team runs into two types of survivors: marauders and medieval knights. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on the idea of futuristic soldiers facing medieval knights.

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The director intended Doomsday as a tribute to post-apocalyptic films from the 1970s and 1980s,  (Conception)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483607/

movies, music

0336 – Trancers (1984)

spacetime coordinates: 2247 Angel City >> 1985  Los Angeles

trancersTrancers (also released as Future Cop) is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by Charles Band and starring Tim ThomersonHelen Hunt, and Art LaFleur.  It is the first film in the Trancers series.

The film revolves around Jack Deth (Thomerson), a Philip Marlowe-esque police detective from the 23rd century who travels to the 1980s in order to bring his old nemesis to justice. The film portrays a unique method of time travel: People can travel back in time by injecting themselves with a drug that allows them to take over the body of an ancestor.

Trancers – Main Theme

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090192/

Trancers: City of Lost Angels (2013)

movies

0335 – Screamers (1995)

spacetime coordinates:  SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078

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Screamers is a 1995 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film starring Peter WellerRoy Dupuis, and Jennifer Rubin, and directed by Christian Duguay. The screenplay, written by Dan O’Bannon with a rewrite by Miguel Tejada-Flores, is based on Philip K. Dick‘s short story “Second Variety“, and addresses themes commonly found in that author’s work: societal conflict, confusion of reality and illusion, and machines turning upon their creators. Although critical reaction to the film was generally negative at the time of its release, it has gained a cult following.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

documentary, series

325 – Dark States (TV Mini-Series 2017)

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each – opioid and heroin addiction in Huntington, sex trafficking in Houston, and murder in Milwaukee.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7492256/

movies, Uncategorized

0324 – Gummo (1997)

spacetime coordinates:   summer of 1996  Xenia, Ohio

Harmony Korine's Gummo posterGummo is a 1997 American dystopian art film written and directed by Harmony Korine, starring Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, and Chloë Sevigny. The film is set in Xenia, Ohio, a small, poor Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town. Instead of using standard movie lights, the production was lit with fluorescent lights to give the movie a haunting, yellowish look. “Gummo” is considered to be a cult film.

Trailer

Themes

The Diary of Anne Frank II

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/

documentary, music

323 – Until the Light Takes Us (2008)

until_the_light_takes_usInterviews and news footage explore the rise of black metal music in Norway in the 1990s, including artists who were involved in suicide, murder and arson.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014809/


John Cage – 4′ 33” Death Metal Cover by Dead Territory [ORIGINAL VIDEO]