Watch “The Beginning of the Robotic,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Cease-Movement Animation

Robots appear to have been a lot on the pub­lic thoughts again within the 9­teen-thir­ties. Matt Novak at Pale­o­fu­ture offers the examination­ple of a second in 1932 when “the world was awash in information­pa­per sto­ries a couple of robotic that had carried out the unthink­ready: a mechan­i­cal man had shot its inven­tor.” Regardless of being…

Martin Scorsese Performs Vincent Van Gogh in a Quick, Surreal Movie by Akira Kurosawa

The thought of the auteur direc­tor has been a con­tro­ver­sial one at occasions giv­en the sheer num­ber of peo­ple required at each stage to professional­duce a movie. Nevertheless it hangs togeth­er for me whenever you have a look at the movies of say, Mar­tin Scors­ese or Aki­ra Kuro­sawa, each direc­tors with very dis­tinc­tive visu­al lan­guages…