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Gunbuster 1988
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(gqx homework, part 2) ok many thoughts. first off i need to acknowledge how fucking crazy it would be for two mythic girlfriends of legend who saved humanity to return after 12k+ years. and i think that's kind of the point! it's a really weird 80's pop sci-fi mecha where piloting is just a jazzercise routine and your rival-turned-friend is a redhead soviet pilot named jung freud, but it evolves into a story really concerned about personal and social legends…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 1988
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At first, it was so dizzying getting into the pace of the movie coming off of three more-or-less leisurely paced series—I felt like characters were getting introduced and torn apart so cruelly and before I could get to know them. But that’s also to point, and the very tight narrative makes you feel the pull of Amuro and Char, who bookend the film and who the film is really all about. And holy shit what a perfect ending………………. very obsessed…
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A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade) 2013
Really enjoying watching these shorts. Interesting to see how she collapses time and duration, creating ghosts that are also entirely not ghosts. It’s a real past in 1924 that becomes a transposed and altered past by Manna to 1942, that from the perspective of 2013 when the photo was recreated and the short film made ironically also unknowingly embodied an implication of a lost past future. The durational moments help bring this alive while concretizing this into real people, inscribing…
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In Vitro 2019
“We were all raised on someone else’s nostalgia. Our memories are mixed in with the experiences of others.” // “We will be archives for someone else later to make sense of.”
Two separate quotes from this short. This gave me chills! Not exactly 100% my speed but really beautifully written and carefully done, a very very meditative brand of spec fiction / sci-fi (?).
Watched as part of “Present Futures: Sci-Fi and Social Ecology” presented by the Habibi Collective.Translated from by
