I watched Yakov Protazanov’s 1924 silent feature Aelita, Queen of Mars for the first time the other night and found it productively boring. It’s one of an increasingly rare species of film: one that you know through reading and stills but have no opportunity to see, such that the strong mental image of it, held for years, ends up substituting for its actual form. Chris Marker made
Dreams and waking
Dreams and waking
Dreams and waking
I watched Yakov Protazanov’s 1924 silent feature Aelita, Queen of Mars for the first time the other night and found it productively boring. It’s one of an increasingly rare species of film: one that you know through reading and stills but have no opportunity to see, such that the strong mental image of it, held for years, ends up substituting for its actual form. Chris Marker made