Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
BBC documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer, which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.…
this boy’s life
This Boy's Life (titled onscreen as This Boy's Life: A True Story) is a 1993 American biographical coming-of-age drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on the eponymous…
New Year’s Eve TV
for New Year's this year I watched a bunch of New Year's episodes of TV shows.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
From writer/director/co-producer Kier-La Janisse comes "a seductive mega-text" (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror, featuring clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and…
The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)
The idea for the film began when director Christopher Lockett and producer Gary Nicholson read an article in the May, 2010 Wired magazine about "the last generation of typewriter repairmen."…
Tune Into the Future
Tune Into The Future is a documentary which explores how thinking about tomorrow became a pop-culture phenomenon called Science Fiction. Despite rich and varied origins, there is one name which…
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various…
Sisters with Transistors
Sisters with Transistors is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Lisa Rovner in her directorial debut. The documentary is made up of rare testimonies and archive footage. It chronicles…
God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines
GOD SAID GIVE ‘EM DRUM MACHINES tells the tale of the young visionaries who made that breakthrough happen. Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Blake Baxter, Eddie Fowlkes, and Santonio…