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mahsun kırmızıgül aids’le ilgili film çekmiş gibi bir his :(

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I’m being generous and giving a half a star more just because they got JLG’s accent right.

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In cinema, the ethos of an animal depends more on human beings than it does in the real world. Even though their habitats are systematically invaded and violated by humans – making it increasingly impossible for them to live unprompted, “natural” lives – an animal framed through the cinematic apparatus is always burdened with meanings, symbols, and stories it never asked for, nor needed. While the documentary form may present rare cases that come closer to depicting the animal as such, their existence nevertheless remains filtered through the human-made gaze, turning them into “subjects” of a narrative, a discourse.

The argument that animals are used as signifiers of human experiences and emotions is nothing new, and attempting to expose the limits of animal representation in the arts – in this case, cinema – is itself a paradoxical endeavour, since the very act of discussing the condition of animals entails, once again, objectifying them. We put animals in cages – actual, discursive, and figurative – and yet we are also confined, by our own incapacity to relate to and understand their existences.

Whether or not they attempt to acknowledge, or even explore, their own limitations, every film with an animal protagonist is a reiteration of this two-sided problem. Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu’s Un Certain Regard winner Black Dog is a film that, without delving too deeply into philosophical or ontological exploration, constructs its story through personal, social, and political metaphors carried by animals. The opening sequence is striking proof of this, setting the tone and atmosphere for what will later unfold, punctuated by a pack of dogs that suddenly erupts into the frame: a sort of bestia ex machina, leaving behind an overturned bus, a group of stunned engers, and an irate driver.

One wonders how many Westerns begin with a carriage and its neat voyagers falling victim to the surprise attack of brazen outlaws or furious Indians seeking to reclaim their land. We may be thousands of kilometers from the Wild West, but the barren landscapes of the Gobi Desert do the trick: we’re only five minutes into the film and have already met its supposed villains – or, dare we say, its anti-heroes?

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[...] Premiered this year in Visions du Réel’s International Feature Film Competition, Johannes Büttner and Julian Vogel’s Soldiers of Light (Soldaten des Lichts) offers a disturbing – and, to a certain extent, clinical – case study of the intricate equation formed by the interwoven variables of politics, religion, the neoliberal economic system, and the media industries. Büttner and Vogel turn their camera on David – a YouTube influencer known as Mr. Raw who, as his pseudonym suggests, promotes a raw vegan diet and, like many in his field, sells supplements, shares healthy lifestyle tips, and offers coaching. However, from the very beginning of the film, the filmmakers make it clear what ideologies and beliefs David truly stands for, deliberately refraining from building their narrative around shock value. Under the guise of his flourishing business – his social media channels and the raw vegan restaurant he operates in Frankfurt – David's true mission is to spread the ideology of the Königreich Deutschland (KRD), a self-proclaimed pseudo-state that is part of the Reichsbürger (citizens of the reign) movement which doesn't recognize the Federal Republic of .

While the historical and political stance of this cult-like community is still largely perceived as alarming within the context of , figures like David have become familiar – and, for this very reason, ordinary – within our social media environment. Their reach clearly transcends the circles usually referred to as “chronically online”. Trad wives who make millions of dollars on TikTok or Instagram while engaging in covert Mormon propaganda have now been normalized, joked about, turned into memes – with parody and irony creating the illusion that these people exist only within the hyperreality of social media. Soldiers of Light seeks to rupture this comfort zone of simulacra by following its protagonist into the “real world” – an impossible endeavour that seems contradictory in itself, since David is always on camera: first through Büttner and Vogel’s lens, and at times through a doubled framing, as we see him filming himself. [...]

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Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Will gradually add the machinima works I come across.

• Martin Cries
• Knit's Island
• Sandbox
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• She Puppet
• Night Song of a Wondering Cowboy
• Landless
• Dance, Voldo, Dance
• Eat the Night
• Notre amour est assez puissant

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Time Walks Through the City
• Dreams and Destinies
• I Love the Heistress
• Cheer Up, Virginijus!
• Fact
• Feelings
• Ave, Vita
• Weekend in Hell
• The Old Man and the Land
• The Dreams of the Centenarians

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• White Roses, Fall!
• Homophobia!
• A Thousand Waves Away
• And The Rest Will Follow
• Ariel
• Back to the Family
• Bomba Bernal
• Summer Camp
• Cossacks in Exile
• John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Notre Dame de la Croisette
• Les Coquillettes
• Claire's Camera

• Direct Action
• The Periphery of the Base
• Queens of Drama
• bluish
• Caught by the Tides
• Scénarios
• Eat the Night
• 100,000,000,000,000
• By the Stream
• Misericordia

I cry a lot during movies.

• Tokyo Story
• The Beatles: Get Back
• Scénarios
• Three Colours: Blue
• My Neighbor Totoro
• La Dolce Vita
• Eternity and a Day
• Napoleon
• Sans Soleil
• Chronicle of a Summer

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

putting together Godard’s TV related projects for my article

• 180
• Closed Jeans
• Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
• Closed
• Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
• Meetin' WA
• Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
• /tour/détour/deux/enfants
• Number Two

• Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
• Un petit cas de conscience
• The Winner
• Chronicle of an Ordinary Suburb
• Jerk
• Uliisses
• Snow
• The Wind
• The Archivettes
• The Slightest Gesture

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

so long and thanks for all the fish

• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Yannick
• Riddle of Fire
• The Human Surge 3
• The Beast
• Orlando, My Political Biography
• Our Body
• May December
• The Delinquents
• Afire

• Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
• Butterfly of Love
• Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
• Rose Hobart
• A Movie
• Lyrical Nitrate
• Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
• The Atomic Cafe
• Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
• Mother Dao, the Turtlelike

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Pacifiction
• De Humani Corporis Fabrica
• Aftersun
• Saint Omer
• Stars at Noon
• Crimes of the Future
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Will-o’-the-Wisp
• Dry Ground Burning
• Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter

no bad vibes fake S&S lists only

• Sans Soleil
• India Song
• Histoire(s) du cinéma
• News from Home
• Late Spring
• Céline and Julie Go Boating
• Man with a Movie Camera
• In Vanda's Room
• Eternity and a Day
• L'Eclisse

• NOEMA
• removed
• Tearoom
• Film Is. a Girl & a Gun
• Downs Are Feminine
• Blue Movie
• Tessitura calda
• Fuck
• Va te faire enculer
• Bitte

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Astronomer's Dream
• A Trip to the Moon
• The Impossible Voyage
• Dream of the Moon
• A Voyage Around a Star
• The '">View the full list on Letterboxd. ]]>

• The Metamorphosis of Birds
• The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
• The Two Sights
• City Hall
• Paris Calligrammes
• The Cloud in Her Room
• Days
• First Cow
• Shirley
• Wolfwalkers

Composed of the films mentioned in Catherine Rusell's book Archiveology, this list could be a useful guide for discovering found-footage filmmaking practices.

• Paris 1900
• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Histoire(s) du cinéma
• Film Is. 1-6
• Film Is. 7-12
• Los Angeles Plays Itself
• Of Time and the City
• My Winnipeg
• Decasia: The State of Decay

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A personal list for my all time favourite movement in history of cinema

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• Daisies
• Marketa Lazarová
• Closely Watched Trains
• Loves of a Blonde
• The Firemen's Ball
• A Report on the Party and the Guests
• The Joke
• The Ear
• Intimate Lighting

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.