> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue 07/08/08 at 08:21 AM -0400): > >> Here goes: it's going to be in the style of a silent movie - we have >> weird footage of the first Soviet expedition, and it will be a kind >> of science fiction type intermission in the middle of my film - >> very "propaganda" a la Stanislav Lem's Solaris or Boris and Arkady >> Strugatsky - two of the Soviet Union's top science fiction writers. >> By the way, all of the text below will be translated into old school >> Soviet propaganda fonts for the film. > > Spooky, I know it's hard to tell all those ex-Easterners apart with > their crazy writing and all, but Lem was Polish. How does conflating > Poland and the USSR fit in with the past views you've expressed on > various kinds of oppressive relations?
Yes but Solaris the movie (1972, based on Lem's book) was directed by Andrei Tarkovsky who is indeed Russian. Elena # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
