Gnostic Flavor on "Slipstream"

Although the film does not deal explicitly gnostic themes, "Slipstream "is a" gnostic flavor " to adopt a self-reflective consciousness is not just as the reality of his own cinematic language. When making a direct reference to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, the film joins the tradition of "romantic irony" that studies the angst of being a prisoner of language can not grasp a reality that is lost in the bloody flux time.Eric Wilson, in his seminal book on the "gnostic movie" Secret Cinema:Gnostic Vision in Film "(which advocates the emergence of a new genus film, the "gnostic movie"), classifies the presence of Gnosticism in films in four categories: films Gnostics proper (where the movies Gnostic theology and cosmology are explicit as in "Matrix"...

Leia + »

Drugs, Disco and 3D: The Pop Embodiment of The Mystic and Sacred

Of the first multimedia sensory areas of the 70 clubs to 3D cinema today, followed the materialization of all neo-Platonic a mystical and metaphysical dimension sacred: the embodiment of all archetypal symbolism of the species before our senses throughconvergence of media to digital technologies. What is the fate of ancient religious and mystical aspiration for transcendence in an environment high tech under the control of large corporations?In a classroom discipline Visual Communication at the University Anhembi Morumbi discussed with my students the visual references of each decade. Regarding 70 years, presented the visual disco music: fashion, behavior, and especially the multi-sensory areas that were nightclubs. Strobe lights, dance floors...

Leia + »

In the Beginning was the Crisis: the ontology of Evil in the Gnostic Film

The narrative structure of the film symbolically represents the Gnostic drama described by the cosmic narratives of Gnosticism: Creation and Fall in a single Act. A corrupted cosmos since the beginning of Creation, Evil as an element principal of a written one which traps its protagonist in exile true spiritual origins.If a Gnostic writing a bible, his first verse would be "and beginning was the crisis. " Since the crisis in the beginning was the Word and not the world physical was a product terminal in crisis and decline since its inception. For Gnosticism, the creation of the world is already Fall by the presence of evil in the ontological its own constitution, existence and dynamism. Identify with the evil material existence does not mean...

Leia + »

Death and Resurrection in "Riverworld"

Despite the obvious problems of production and script, when dealing with classics elements of Gnostic symbolism Riverworld (pilot of a possible series) becomes a candidate to succeed the series Lost. Death / resurrection is the theme center, accompanied by the symbolism of the Gnostic Sophia and the division Kabbalah / alchemy in search for the exit from the nightmare that represents the world Riverworld.Displayed by the SciFi Channel, Riverworld is an adaptation by Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Andromeda and The Dresden Files) from a series of science fiction books written by Philip Jose Farmer. The story revolves around a photojournalist, Matt and his girlfriend Jessie. After die in a terrorist attack on a nightclub are transported...

Leia + »

"To Infinity and Beyond: The Buzz Lightyear's Gnosis

The Toy Story trilogy explores a rich sacred symbols whose origins are in antiquity with Theurgy Alchemy and Gnostic involving the relationship with the human simulacra (dolls and puppets, and in modern times, automatons, androids and replicants). However, in an ambiguous way in which the Gnosis is dominated by Episteme.Once Prof. Marcelo Tassara, one of the lessons of the Master in Communication Anhembi Morumbi University, spoke about the ability of the animations NorthAmerican, directed for children, making fun themes tragic, heavy and adults.From Bambi (where the protagonist loses her mother in a cruel way) until Wall-E(Science fiction dark and cynical) animations of American studios exercise this ability to make children laugh at the cruel...

Leia + »

Disney XD Freestyle Football: There is a Techgnostic Project for Football?

A techgnostic project hovering over the football. The video of the channel Disney XD which has undergone a football telemetry reflects an imaginary regressive project which aims to confine the Game and Play within a technology that aims to eradicate the Evil (error, failure, chance) as a human weakness. It's what lurks behind every claim for sport technologisation every error of soccer judges.While typed one more posting to this blog Secret Cinema, my son watched the Disney XD channel. Among the many ads which litters the intervals of the program (and as there are breaks in cable TV!) a caught my attention and I stopped typing. The video is titled "Disney XD Freestyle Football ", alluding to the event's World Cup in South Africa (Watch the...

Leia + »

A Brief Gnostic History of the Spontaneity in the Entertainment Industry (Part 2)

After the Star System, Celebrities, pin ups, children and animals, the entertainment industry will seek the spontaneity in more invasive and pernicious ways in which the private perversions are transformed into public virtues. We finished the first part of the post about the entertainment industry and spontaneity approaching the trap that the media themselves ended up creating for themselves: the vicious cycle of pseudoeventos. Celebrities and political and economic events replicate images, themes and languages developed by the media, creating a huge effect that authors such as Baudrillard would call hyper: the reality starts to copy images, ie the precession of the images on all present and real events future (the falls of the towers in the...

Leia + »

Carthography and Topography of Mind: From "Vanilla Sky" to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"

A set of films of this new century is going to "Vanilla Sky" to the recent version of Tim Burton for "Alice in Wonderland" shows that current cinema reflects a new techno-scientific agenda: psychocartographies and psychotopography. The mobilization of the neurosciences and cognitive sciences for Mapping the mind and consciousness. Mapping of imaginary worlds is not a novelty in the history of culture. But in actuality, these tropes have a more practical purpose: control and social engineering.What does the movies "Vanilla Sky" (2001), "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind "(2004)," The Good Night" (2007) "Science of Sleep (La Sceince Des Rêves, 2006)," Alice in Wonderland (2010) Tim Burton's, "Inception" (2010) and the series TV "The Prisoner"...

Leia + »