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itās like a two hour ego death where itās just you and the directorās vision. dark room large screen loud speakers canāt lose
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"Enter The Void" eases me into sleep but firstly makes me heavily review existence. It's a Gaspar Noe film about a drug dealer living in Tokyo who gets fatally wounded during a deal gone bad. The movie ensues with his life flashing before his eyes before losing consciousness. As the main character leaves his body, I find myself coasting in delirium alongside with him. The prolonged shots of psychedelic eye candy numb my mind as it evokes me to recount memories of adolescence and my existence leading up to the very point of my "feel bad" state of mind. I eventually stop making sense of my reality and begin to just feel raw emotion that doesn't stem from any lived experiences. It also explores the lives of people tied to you and the repercussions losing somebody has on them both positive and negative.
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Despite it being a dark fucked up environment these characters live in, I felt moved by the depiction of their world and imagination. This movie collects my stressors and blends it with heartwarming and traumatizing memories. Watching this allows a lot of emotional reflection but not quite catharsis which is why it's my anti comfort movie.
Sep 19, 2024
Mar 2, 2024
all 3+ stream of consciousness hours at the roxie in SF (spooky and weirdly proportioned venue, see photo) and the 4k remaster still looked like shit (i.e. as good as you can remaster early 2000s digital camcorder footage) and there was one dead pixel of green hanging out for the whole movie and somehow it was still the most immersive and unsettling experience cinema has ever given me and walking back to the parking garage in san francisco at 1am (which was closed and we had to call the garage for someone to come open) made me feel like i was in the movie FFO: browsing r/liminalspaces, psychological horror video games, eastern european swag/horror, being confused
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024