Transmission 31: R&D 2024: Film

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This is a transmission ruled by Mars & Uranus visible above the eastern horizon during the morning of July 15th– a planetary conjunction, an optical illusion.

Happy planetary conjunction!

Welcome back to The Time Travel Transmissions.

Spring and Summer are still R&D seasons at The Time Travel Agency.
And transmissions during this time will be ruled by celestial events!

Each transmission will broadcast one line of investigation and research.

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Today: Film research

Welcome to a film & speculation blend; to optical illusions to enjoy in any horizon. This is a good exercise to implement the fiction and slowing down from the transmission before this one. Here are chosen films:

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                             Julio Torres imagines himself in the past (as an immigrant to the United States and as a dreamer), 
                                                    the present (directing his first feature film), 
               and the future (...) with Tilda Swinton, 
                                                                    in A24's Problemista.

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Parker Posey is Party Girl and librarian, 
                            and Party Girl is the first film to premiere on the internet in 1995.

                                     The world of PG is not an exception in diversity; 
                                           that's how the world is <3                          

Image source https://www.funcityeditions.com/shop/p/party-girl-limited-edition-blu-ray

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                A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to music. 
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. 
Unexpected encounters reveal his story (including encounters with trees and light).

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Memoria" is about a sonic noise that is keeping someone up. It (the noise) watches someone trying to recreate it. The noise and its carrier then travel to the countryside and meet a fish scaler who tell them about dreams and memories. [Something happens]. The noise is explained.

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The other news:

The Time Travel Agency has been honored to receive the August Wilson Archive Artist-Scholar Grant from the University of Pittsburgh this spring!

The studio was chosen among a group of scholars, artists, and educators to receive funding to explore the archive and deliver a creation to share with the Pittsburgh community. Our framework will be to see the archive as a future place where his legacy has something to tell us in 2024-25.

We will begin work this autumn, and our piece(s) will be released in November and then throughout winter and spring 2025.

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