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REPOST: I directed a movie in 2019 captured on an old super 8 film camera, creating an early 1900s aesthetic, and centered on the duality of Science and Faith, titled "Chapter 9." I worked closely with a very small group of artists (7 of us on the entire production) to bring these ideas to the screen. It was complete with all hand-painted title cards and an original musical score. The full film is just under 30 minutes in length and can be viewed at the link below for free. I hope you get a chance to see it and enjoi! 🎥
https://spectra.video/w/71ocorTnsbRQL5pRWUBKWW
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"Woman with Orange," Käthe Kollwitz, 1901.

Prussian-born Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work often brutally depicted the effects of poverty and war on the working classes.

Although regarded as a Realist in her time, today she's classified as an Expressionist. A committed pacifist, her works protesting war and depicting various social problems brought her fame but also problems. She lost a son in WWI and works between the wars were full of antiwar sentiment and depictions of sorrow and grief.

During WWII, when she lived in Germany, the Gestapo threatened to send her to a concentration camp, but her international fame made the idea undesirable for the Nazis. By this time she was also a committed Communist. Her Berlin home was bombed, resulting in the loss of many prints and documents, and she passed away mere weeks before the end of the war.

Here's a distracted-looking woman with an orange...perhaps her entire food for the day? An unsettling look at poverty, definitely.

From the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

haven't been too well recently. i made some sketches last night and just now kinda stream of consciousness amateur graphic design'd it and embraced the serendipity. (I have a degree in this! lol) this feels a little nice to have made. you happen to like this, then that is a strange plus


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