Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
The spirit of the times … shows itself … significantly, in cinema and jazz. These are characteristic symptoms of our time, which has extended the humanistic ideal even to the body … The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a
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Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism.In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced by
all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.ioPerhaps transformation into art is one way of dealing with the overstimulation of modern life. Art binds chaotic impressions into form … Perhaps film emerged when it did because it was just the therapy people needed to bind into manageable form the chaos of modern overstimulation.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair
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Emphasizing the visuals of ruination offers an emotional buffer from the economic, political, and social issues that lead to ruin’s rise.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
“A-tivity” represents aesthetic creativity: art, design, music, film.