Category: FILM IN PHASE SPACE
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Use You Illusion
Optical illusions are intriguing phenomena that can trick our eyes and brain into perceiving something that is not actually present or perceiving it differently from reality. These illusions can be caused by various factors, such as the way our eyes perceive light, shadows, or depth perception, light, color, shape, and contrast, to name a few.…
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Last Year At Marieband
SUMMARY At a weekend gathering, a man (referred to in the screenplay as X, and played by Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to convince a woman (referred as A, and played by Delphine Seyrig) that they had fallen in love the previous summer, “in Karlstadt, Marienbad, or Baden-Salsa. Or even here in this salon.” In his telling,…
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The Flickering Hustle: Confessions of a Theater Impresario
I didn’t always live like this—counting crumpled twenties, watching phantom faces flash across empty velvet rows, and praying to the flickering gods of Hollywood. There was a time when movies meant something, when the smell of stale popcorn mixed with nicotine and sweat, and the rattling reel of film was as sacred as mass. But…
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The Brain as Server Farm
Precisely. The human cranium acts as a kind of ramshackle server farm, crammed with pulsating neurons and glistening fatty insulation – the wetware underpinning this magnificent, messy biocomputer. It’s a marvel of evolution, cobbled together over millennia, but with all the elegance of a hacker’s basement rig. The software, on the other hand, that’s the…