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Film Review: Descend the Caves of “Look Then Below," via WORT
Ben Rivers’ “Look Then Below” creates an immersive spell of deep time far exceeding its 23 minutes. Filmed in the Wookey Hole Caves near the avant-garde filmmaker’s hometown of Somerset, England, it is the third of a collaborative trilogy with science fiction writer Mark von Schlegell. Incantatory text is read with mesmerizing understatement by screenwriter Therese Henningsen, and perfectly complemented by Christina Vantzou’s spare soundtrack.
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Film Review: Phil Tippett’s “Mad God” Is a Stopmotion Hellscape, via WORT
“Mad God” is a staggering handmade hell by stop-motion and effects master Phil Tippett, who devoted thirty off-and-on years to a film that gives new and visceral meaning to the phrase “passion project.”
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For the last year I have been reading The Brothers Karamazov on my radio show, Fiction Jones, an hour of live, complete book readings on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Friday of the month from 11pm to 12 midnight here on WORT.
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