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Roman Sviridov12.05.2022

The folds on the surface of the paper are like secret letters that were formed simultaneously with the world. However, understanding what literally lies on the surface is sometimes more difficult than unraveling the depths of space. Most likely, before the invention of paper, figures were also able to be folded, for example, from the […]

Serg Levine11.06.2020

“Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.” King Solomon In Palestinian territory, a local boy provokes an Israeli patrol soldier to chase after him. In this strange chase, the line disappears not only between the pursuer and the pursued, but also between reality and imagination. The bold mystical fantasy “Eli” of young Israeli […]

Pavel Chirkov14.05.2020

It is impossible to control something boundless, but everything can be declared a zone of one’s interests. In the American film “Frankie Rulez!!!” by director San Charoenchai, the comic character Frankie does something similar. He teleports to various parts of the infinite Universe for the sole purpose of fixing flags everywhere with his own portrait […]

Eugenia Gorbunova01.05.2020

Throughout the history people are fascinated by freaks. Scared, disgusted, but still fascinated. And it is no surprise that we see freaks on the big screen. “Frankenstein”, “Freaks”, “The Elephant Man” so on and so forth… It is such a vivid way of showing the difference between human and non-human. Every time we see a […]

Yuri Chekalin29.04.2020

Theology once believed that “translation” could mean direct removal to heaven of the body without intervening death. All too often in being translated, the poem loses its life. Literal translation of a poem into bare prose may help understanding, but the plain text of a literal version may not be accurate to the poem, for […]

Eugenia Gorbunova29.04.2020

Zombies, Zombies, Zombies, Zombies and Zombies again in the musical animated film “Invasion” by Moustache Studio on “Judgment Day” remix by Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer. Nowadays there are many movies about zombies. In fact so many that we start forgetting what really zombies are. They are these gruesome creatures with one wish and […]

Leon Pufferson27.04.2020

Recently, I was revising my collection of animated films and came across a film that I recommend to watch for everyone over 50 years old. “La Maison en Petits Cubes” is either a cautionary tale of environment or a sentimental story. The world gets flooded and each time the water level goes up, the residents […]

Eugenia Gorbunova27.04.2020

“The Backwater Gospel” is the mystical animated film or story of a small community in the U.S. prairies. As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone […]

Eugenia Gorbunova26.04.2020

“Nothing in life is perfect. Except for a lucky few…” What can be better than an endless holiday? Waking up every morning you understand that there is nothing more to do than to just enjoy yourself. That was the thinking of a creepy monkey-like creature. Every day is a celebration and in the best traditions […]

Kathryn Kazantseva23.04.2020

Probably, each of us at least once thought about thing, as about something living with our own feelings. People have always endowed the inanimate soul in ancient tales, in books, in films, and, of course, in cartoons. And for the Japanese it’s completely customary to believe that everything created by nature is a container of […]

Culture & Art

Invention of Origami Paper

One Day of Eli’s Life

“Lord” of the Universe

Who Do You Call a Freak Here?

The Poetry of Postwar Japan

The Modernity — Zombie Day

Oscar-winning Absurd Story

The Sermon of Superstition

Limits of Happiness

About Soul and Light

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”

Japan Reopens to Foreign Tourists

About the Dangers of Supplements

135 years ago Charlie Chaplin was born!