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The Mirror-Faced Grim Reaper in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
“This film is endowed with an acute sense of restlessness and alienation; reflecting this uncanny estrangement in the doubling, tripling and quadrupling of its central character, and in its cyclic narrative, a structure that seems condemned to repetition. Why is the hooded Death figure constructed as a kind of mirror? Are we dealing with Nietzsche’s notion of ‘eternal return’? (…) You could go on forever about the meaning buried in this particular work. It invites and eludes analysis.” – CINEMA AND DREAM-LOGIC IN MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
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Richard Hescox, “First Contact.” When I wanted to include this artwork in my art collection, I reached out to the artist for more information on where it was first published and got a surprising answer: Never. Hescox created it as a sample for his portfolio in 1975.
My art collection has a nice clean version of it in my section about gunfights in space. So, today is the first time this one has appeared in print!
My book “Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s” is out now, get it here!
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Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance behind the scenes of The Shining, 1980.
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Seto Kaiba is 100x funnier when you remember that he is just as bizarre to the characters in canon as he is to us. His behavior isn’t normal in the ygo verse
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drew this one a bit ago. what if we all just give up
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