MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Category: FILM IN PHASE SPACE

  • Star Wars/Deleuze Guattari

    To speak of Star Wars themes and machines like into Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical concepts, we can draw on their ideas of assemblages, lines of flight, desiring machines, multiplicities, and the concept of the Body without Organs (BwO). The universe of Star Wars can be viewed through the lens of these dynamic forces and virtual…

  • Making Movies

    Making your own movie is a bit like algebra—a creative endeavor with straightforward steps you can learn and apply, like plugging numbers into equations. It’s all very comforting, if not a tad boring. You follow the rules, and voilà! You’ve got a film. But distribution? Ah, that’s where it gets murky—like calculus. Suddenly, you’re grappling…

  • Rings of Power Review /S

    The Rings of Power is an underwhelmed synergy of intellectual property and shovelware, redefining the landscape of transmedia storytelling. Amazon Studios has tried to execute a masterclass in brand optimization by leveraging the Tolkien legacy. The series demonstrates a remarkable commitment to inclusivity and diversity, painfully integrating them into a world previously characterized by its…

  • M

    The film “M” by Fritz Lang, released in 1931, is a masterpiece that transcends the limitations of its time, exploring the darker recesses of human nature and society. While often categorized as a thriller or crime drama, “M” operates on a level far more profound, delving into the structures of power, desire, and societal control.…

  • The Cheaper The Mortgage

    The cheaper the mortgage, the more vibrant the cultural scene—it’s almost an economic law. When people aren’t crushed under the weight of exorbitant housing costs, they have room to breathe, to create, to take risks. In neighborhoods where the rent isn’t devouring their every dollar, artists, writers, and musicians can afford to be bold, to…

  • Film Executive Priorities

    In the high-stakes world of Hollywood, film executives emerge as tragicomic figures, navigating a landscape where profit, status, and survival dominate every decision. Their priorities are not mere tasks to be checked off but are deeply embedded in the very fabric of the industry. It’s a brutal game where the sharpest minds, the quickest thinkers,…

  • Hollywood Debt Obligations

    “Hollywood has become a conduit for studios and artists to meet their debt obligations because studios are in great great debt and the job is not so much to make great movies, their job is to make their debt obligation” In the labyrinthine fever dream of Hollywood, where ambition curdles into celluloid and dreams are…

  • Expanded Universes and Auteur Theory

    Sharp, you dig. Extended Universes are like psychic Skinner boxes, man. These sprawling narratives, with their intricate lore and endless franchises, pump out rewards – character arcs, epic battles, fan theories that bloom like digital peyote. We get hooked, wired right into the pleasure circuits. Deeper we delve, the more enmeshed we become in their…

  • Yakuza Graveyard

    Alright, cinephiles, lemme break it down for you about the king of Japanese badassery, Kinji Fukasaku! This dude wasn’t just directing flicks, he was orchestrating cinematic operas of violence, suspense, and a whole lotta style. We’re talkin’ yakuza films, baby! Not your grandpappy’s samurai shootouts. Fukasaku ripped the Yakuza genre wide open with his “Battles…

  • The Illusion of Funding: How Hollywood Forgot How to Dream

    The primary challenge for Hollywood now is to abandon the idea of creating various schemes around box office numbers, realizing that they could essentially “print money” using alternative financial methods, relying on box office and streaming figures to uphold the belief that these streams primarily funded projects. What it funded was an artistic vision of…