Outsourcing Ourselves

Surrogates and the Substitution of the Human Self

by Winter Elliott

[12.3.10] - Science fiction films seem obligated to deliver a message of social commentary. In turn, films based on comic books or, worse, video games, seem equally destined to fail in their attempt to translate those original ideas into a new medium. Surrogates finds a middle path, managing critical commentary while falling into mediocrity in its reliance upon the stable cliches of Hollywood action movies

[en] Outsourcing Ourselves

Reviews » Vals Im Bashir, Folman, 2008

Il mare nero di Bashir

by Giorgio Maniaci

[20.2.10] - Un mare nero. Nero e denso, come il petrolio. Un mare in cui ti immergi, affondi, senza affogare mai. Un mare che ti solleva, ti culla tra le onde, ti salva e ti sommerge, ma che non ti trascina al largo, lasciandoti annegare. Questo il mare nero in cui è immerso Ari Folman, protagonista di Walzer con Bashir, film d’animazione sulla guerra israelo-libanese dei primi anni ’80, dallo stesso Folman scritto e diretto, disegnato e illustrato da David Polonsky.

[it] Il mare nero di Bashir

Reviews » Vals Im Bashir, Folman, 2008

Le film anti guerre n'est qu'une mascarade

by Gideon Levy

[20.2.10] - Hollywood sera sous le charme, l’Europe applaudira et le ministère israélien des affaires étrangères enverra le film et ses réalisateurs dans le monde entier pour montrer le pays sous son beau jour. Mais en vérité, c’est de la propagande. Ses réalisateurs ont de la classe, ils sont sophistiqués et doués et ils ont du goût, mais le film est de la propagande.

[fr] Le film anti guerre n'est qu'une mascarade

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edited by Gabriele De Luca

[12.3.10] - With his last film, Das weiße Band, the Austrian director Michael Haneke gets to the core of his reflection on Evil and its representation. After such films as Funny Games, in which violence, although always present, is never showed, or Caché, in which violence remains a mere threat, Das Weiße Band constitutes a very complex work, in which the relationship between victim and executioner is not clear, in which acted violence and suffered violence are confused, and in which the director interweaves realism with abstraction, creating a film that can be read in different layers. The papers presented deal with these topics, trying to develop, from different points of view, the notions of violence and realism in the recent work of Michael Haneke.

[it] Lo Spazio Bianco by Gabriele De Luca

[en] Morality, violence and realism in Robert Musil and Das Weiße Band by Stijn De Cauwer

[it] Das Weiße Band. (Ap)punti di riflessione by Ilaria D Angelo

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