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The opening music I recognized but couldn’t name and the style of the cyber hermaphrodite seemed to me to be deeply Slavic, Dostoevskian in outlook. The character is extraordinarily effective in its simplicity; a blank canvas on which to portay emotion. Of course the source is Russia so one might expect that yet the dark [...]

This makes Stern’s point about the dominance of the visual absolutely. For me the primarily visual atmospherics dominate to such an extent that I feel swamped by so many screen- image techniques:

suspension focus on the hand
close photography of signs of physical strain
close photography of signs of psychological stress
rain, lightning
steam
chiaroscuro
silhouettes
looming technical presences
scenes of devastation
saved/ saviour
cat and [...]

The most illuminating reference for me so far was that to Baudrillard’s ‘Simulacra and Simulations‘. After puzzling over the meaning of ‘Elephants Dream’ and drawing a virtual blank; I picked up that reference dropped by Sian on our Tweetdeck.

I had already played with the switching roles in the film; the inherent contradictions and the [...]

Predetermined reality or virtual wonderland is the offer which faced me this week. I have been having fits of vertigo. Sometimes the room is a vortex – sometimes normal. I have been having tests to determine the problem. During this period I have missed a whole part of the course ending last night. Flexible distance [...]