Category: International
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When it comes to imperialism, it normally boils down to a few images. Tanks rolling over flattened cities. Flames engulfing fertile forests. Soldiers planting down their nation’s flag after they have successfully won a battle. These images almost always accompany a nation’s creation of gendered identity, which is almost always masculine and visible. But there…
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Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental documentary that chronicles an average day in Moscow, from the early morning hours to the carousing at night. There is no plot or written characters; the sole purpose of the film is to demonstrate a number of techniques one can do with a camera, as well as…
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
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In Aelita: Queen of Mars (1926), an apparent alien signal from the planet Mars leads to Loss, a beleaguered engineer from Soviet Russia, building a spaceship so he can forget about his marital problems. After flying to Mars in a rocket ship with his friend Gusev, Loss falls in love with Aelita, the queen of…
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