Alchemisland

Hahaha imagining the movie’s reddit-selected production council reviewing meeting minutes like a latter-day Munster family, pallid and rhombus-headed. Everyone having insane power trips, mods banning accounts of other financiers, using reddit to whistleblow set drama. Could be a horror film in itself; he who bedded with the reddit mafia to fund a horror dream. It’s…

when pictured like this, with its darkened viewing rooms, costumed audiences in fine silks with foreheads girdled by gem-set diadems, and the increasing abuse of the locus amoenus as a tool of subversion, it recalls how the origins of cinematic viewing experiences are rooted in bacchic and dionysian mystery theatres. in an oblique yet definite…