Actually really cool Y2K technocamp found on Mubi starring Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton because she made colour-coded experimental cyborg clones of herself who need to regularly have sex with men to collect Y chromosomes or something
The story revolves around one of them (Ruby) passing on an STD that make men impotent and gives them a barcode on their forehead, but the clones are also semi-digital or something so this virus also affects…
Def an interesting historical artifact here. As you can tell from the plot synopsis, this is about a Russian dissident who gets deported to Siberia for ten years until the February Revolution, where he gets to return to civilization and is reunited with his now grown-up son. But the detail about this I found particularly interesting is how from the dialogue, you can tell very specifically this film was made before the *October* Revolution later in 1917, when the Bolsheviks…
Watching this over 40 years later it remains an artifact of its time, yet it feels so uncannily dizzying and forward-thinking that it feels like the prequel to the 2010s. In the early 70s, we can see glimpses of what was to come in the following decades, with this film showing us examples of polyamory and same-sex marriage - in at the very least, a neutral and non-judgemental way, while the film focuses on the unpredictable technological and social change…
Based on a real series of killings in Adelaide, South Australia in the 1990s, Snowtown tells the story of Jamie Vlassakis, a teenager and victim of child sexual abuse from a broken household who meets John Bunting, his mother's charismatic new boyfriend - who, exploiting Jamie's own experiences and insecurities, who grooms him into becoming an accomplise in his campaign of random murders against the vulnerable, wielding the specter of paedophilia as a justification.
I think what sets this apart…
