Graffiti-Poster mit der Aufschrift „DIY against AI“ und dem Appell, kreative Energie nicht an destruktive Technik zu verlieren.
DIY against AI – Aufkleber Ⓐ
Don't surrender your creativity to destructive technology.
➡️ black-mosquito.org/de/diy-again...
Stop using it.
Stop supporting it.
Stop depending on it.
Wusstet ihr, dass zwischen 1935 und 1937 allein in Wuppertal, Remscheid, Solingen und Velbert 1.900 Gewerkschafter*innen von den Nazis verhaftet wurden? Und dass 649 davon in Prozessen wegen Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat verurteilt wurden? Damals erhielten die Prozesse weltweite Aufmerksamkeit.
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An »Strangers at Sunrise« (1969) von Percival Rubens zeigt sich, dass in südafrikanischen ›Western‹ der Western-Plot von der Ideologie überwältigt zu werden droht, die der Film transportiert. Angesichts der südafrikanischen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jh. wohl unvermeidlich.
#Filmsky #Germanfilmsky
Erzählerisch eine der besten Dunsany-Geschichten, finde ich.
Als Vorläufer der Sword and Sorcery hätte vielleicht eher »Thangobrind the Jeweller« ein Anrecht?
By the 70s, TV had become more common in Italy, which left the film industry (or at least the part attuned to churning out genre films) with the kind of stuff you couldn't show on TV. Hence, the cannibal movies, the softcore porn and the Nazi exploitation flicks.
Ups, hatte einen Entwurf gepostet, in dem ein Absatz fehlte. Der ist jetzt ergänzt.
#Filmsky #GermanFilmsky #Moviesky #Western
In »Strangers at Sunrise« ist diese Ideologie der burische Nationalismus, in einem früheren in Südafrika spielenden #Western, »Diamond City« (1949), hingegen Nostalgie für das British Empire. Macht sich beides nicht so gut, obwohl »Diamond City« ein deutlich besserer Film ist.
An »Strangers at Sunrise« (1969) von Percival Rubens zeigt sich, dass in südafrikanischen ›Western‹ der Western-Plot von der Ideologie überwältigt zu werden droht, die der Film transportiert. Angesichts der südafrikanischen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jh. wohl unvermeidlich.
#Filmsky #Germanfilmsky
A poster depicting a Middle-earth map. The map is surrounded by several little drawings of landscapes. The top and bottom borders are green. The top border depicts the nine members of Fellowship of the Ring walking. The bottom border depicts the Ringwraiths, giant spider, and several beasts.
The map of Middle-earth owned by Pauline Baynes, with annotations from Tolkien on the empty spaces. The annotations were written in green ink and pencil, as opposed to the red texts on the original map.
LotR poster map by Pauline Baynes (1970), based on Tolkien's annotation on Baynes' own map. Among his notes were for the ships and their sail emblems: “Elven-ships small, white or grey…Númenórean ships black and silver…Corsairs had red sails with black star or eye.”
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
»The Beast of Hollow Mountain« (= historisch erster »Cowboys und Dinosaurier«-Flick) ist schon auch lustig. Die Story geht ganz routiniert voran, es gibt eine Liebesgeschichte, ein mieser Großgrundbesitzer will den Protas ihr Land abjagen, paar Nebenfiguren treten auf usw.
#Western
Eine Frau, ein Mann und ein Junge starren alarmiert auf etwas, das sich außerhalb des Bildes befindet. In die obere linke Ecke ist das Porträt eines manisch grinsenden, augenrollenden Mannes montiert, dessen Gesicht teilweise hinter einem Lederstreifen verborgen ist.
Man stößt im Genre einfach immer wieder auf neue Skurrilitäten. Zum Beispiel »The Rawhide Terror«, Proto-Slasher aus dem Jahr '34, in dem ein maskierter Würger in einer Grenzstadt sein Unwesen treibt.
Weil der Crew das Geld ausging, ist der Flick übrigens nur eine Dreiviertelstunde lang.
#Western
I am not saying the guys running OpenAI are serial killers. I'm just saying the worldview they present, and the way they talk about their own actions, reminds me a lot of one of the most iconic serial killers in the history of film.
A drawing of the artist walking around with a silly smile, while a carabiner holding keys, connected to her pants, is making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sound. Above her is a thought bubble with a robot bearing the caption "Lesbotron 3000", also making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sounds.
happy lesbian week
From "Jesus Christ" to "Jesus Christ who gives this guy roles still" in 20 years.
Ein Film, der dem ZDF in die Hände fiel und danach nie wieder derselbe war: The Deerslayer (1957) von Kurt Neumann.
#RitaMoreno
#JamesFenimoreCooper
This is the story of the sauerkraut western mini-Cold War!
(Mind you, there's also a lot of weirdness adjacent to it, like Germans dressing up as Native Americans and declaring themselves to be a tribe [in real life, not as film extras], but to delve into this would require a different thread.)
In the end, the East German government relented and allowed the production of two TV series and a movie based on Karl May in the 1980s. Too late. By then, East German oater film-making was also in its last throes.
But this only made antiquarian editions of Karl May the more sought after in the GDR, whose reading populace suffered from a shortage of books anyway. It is rumoured that for a complete set of May's novels, you could buy a car on the grey market in East Germany.
In the beginning, the East Germans were hampered because they couldn't use the books of Germany's most popular western writer, Karl May, as source material. The GDR government deliberately kept May's novels out of print, having declared him a reactionary writer.
The East's leading star Gojko Mitić was Yugoslav and had first appeared as an extra in West German productions. Block-free Yugoslavia was a kind of neutral ground where both sides could go to make oaters.
The West Germans had Yugoslavia and Spain (standing in for the American Southwest) and the Austrian Alps (used for Jack London flicks). The East Germans filmed all over the Eastern Bloc.
Locations were crucial. The East Germans couldn't go to the actual American West, for obvious Cold War reasons, but the West Germans also rarely bothered to go there. Much too expensive. (The first and last German western with significant footage shot in the American West had come out in 1936).
But the East Germans had the longer breath. While West German genre film-making fizzled out in the 1970s, the GDR's state-owned UFA studio kept making westerns well into the 1980s, going as far as Cuba and Mongolia for shooting locations.
West Germany had bigger budgets and bigger box office crowds, of course. And former Hollywood stars. To compete with the latter, East Germany only had singer-actor Dean Reed, dubbed Red Elvis since he defected to the East in 1966.
While the Yanks and the Soviets had their Space Race, studios in East and West Berlin fought it out over the real issue: Here, the race was about who made the better horse operas.
While most people have heard about spaghetti westerns, a very funny (and to this date rather obscure) episode in the history western film-making is that in the 1960s, East and West Germany had competing oater industries, each with their own stars, directors etc.
K-Western muss auch mal sein: The Warrior's Way (2010) von Sngmoo Lee.
#Filmsky #GermanFilmsky #Western
Wer übrigens gern mal einen sehr guten (wenn auch mit bescheidenen Mitteln realisierten) inoffiziellen Django-Film sehen möchte, der nicht von Tarantino stammt: Da kann ich »Django il bastardo« von 1969 empfehlen.
L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos
Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵
Marmorstatue von Gustav Eberlein: Ein nackter Jüngling hält seinen schmerzenden Fuß.
"Der Legostein", ca. 1850