Synced up the movie Naqoyqatsi with Inferno

Synced up the movie Naqoyqatsi with Inferno

So I was starting to watch the movie Naqoyqatsi for the first time. Description: "A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence." 37 minutes in I had the idea to sync up the movie with Inferno. So I went back to the beginning and muted the film on my laptop and pressed play on Inferno at the same time time as pressing play on the movie. I knew it would be trippy, but I wasn't expecting it to sync up as well as it did. Introit ended exactly as title sequence ended and I was intrigued. I ended up watching beyond the 37 minutes so some of the movie I saw for the first time with BoC soundtracking it.

So many times there were huge coincidences, like songs ending exactly as transitions occur in the movie, a ghostly sequence of people during Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan, footage of industry expanding during The Word Becomes Flesh and a stream of cars rapidly driving while the sample mentions blood pumping. During Deep Time, the word TIME appears huge across the screen (45:46 into the movie). A part of a song (I forget which one) synced up really well with a sequence of faces on currency. During All Reason Departs, while the sample says, "There is a magical operation of maximum importance. The initiation of a new aeon. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the great war must be fought", there's a CGI POV sequence inside what appears to be a computer chip and then a portal that leads to a map of the world and sonar or what appears to be bombs going off and the world map sort of explodes and fades into a POV in an aisle of a grocery store. I tried my best to explain it. Also during All Reason Departs, there's a sequence of wax heads of world leaders with trippy imagery and right when that sequence ends, Arena Americanada starts with an infrared image of a giraffe running. During You Retreat In Time and Space there's a series of religious symbols coming toward the screen and fire imagery. During I Saw Through Platonia there are rows of trees, rockets launching, and a bunch of explosions. And during this sequence it's presented in black and white resembling an x-ray with images superimposed over each other. I find this especially interesting because Platonia is a genus of several species of tree. This picture happens to resemble the rows of trees in the movie: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Platonia_insignis. The song happens to end with the image I posted of the sun. And then the movie immediately fades to black for a moment and then transitions to the next part of the movie. There are many moments like this in the movie, I'm only describing a few.

All of this is probably a big coincidence, but it's a really interesting one. Naqed my socks off! Now I will go back to the 37 minute mark and watch the rest of the movie with the Philip Glass soundtrack. At time of posting this I haven't even seen the full movie yet haha.

u/Jeremothman — 10 hours ago

One More Robot live 2003 with Yoshimi animation on screen (and Wayne wielding double flashlights)

One of my favorite Yoshimi-era videos!

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u/Jeremothman — 12 days ago
▲ 69 r/Muse

Listening party reaction

Amazing album and some of the best opening and closing songs in their discography. WOW! The genres/styles vary yet it remains extremely cohesive and the tracks flow into each other very well. I admit being a sci-fi nerd heavily biases me, but Space Debris is honestly one of the best breakup songs I've ever heard. When the album drops listen on the best speakers/headphones possible all the way through from beginning to end. The hype is well-deserved! Can't wait to hear again.

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u/Jeremothman — 15 days ago

Sherbet Head in the cinematic masterpiece that is The Shaggy D.A. (1976)

Did I just find the inspiration for the track title?

u/Jeremothman — 18 days ago

Kane's intro to "The Yellow Wallpaper" short story zine released by A24 is mandatory reading

I urge all fans to grab a copy of this $8 zine from the A24 shop. Got mine in the mail, it's beautiful.

u/Jeremothman — 20 days ago

Reading some reviews of Disclosure Day and watching Spielberg's appearance on Colbert reminded me of Raimon Panikkar's metaphor of "The Window"

Saw this video in a World Religions class in college and it had a huge impact on my thinking. I wonder if Spielberg has seen this! At time of posting I haven't seen Disclosure Day yet, but it seems like this will be a big theme of the movie.

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u/Jeremothman — 25 days ago

Backrooms (the movie and Kane's YouTube series) reminded me of this David Lynch quote

I watched Kane's entire YouTube series for the first time after watching the movie on the Thursday of its release. This quote came to mind when I was watching the movie and again while watching "home_27647.mov" (https://youtu.be/Kq6l9yCO9rI?si=keEthXLjrB9c5lQp). I was born in 1992, so this video was very nostalgic and beautiful to me, but there's that hint of eeriness and nostalgia, of "red ants" David Lynch spoke of in the quote, lurking in it as well. Excellent choice of music, by the way. It sounded familiar, I looked it up and turns out it's an instrumental cover of Al Stewart's "Time Passages". Some of the lyrics of the song seem to address the same sort of nostalgia and romanticized depiction of the past that is depicted in much of the video, "Well I'm not the kind to live in the past. The years run too short and the days too fast. The things you lean on are the things that don't last..." So it seems to be hinting at an emptiness in the "good old days", American Dream or something.

u/Jeremothman — 1 month ago

Tempo de Shoe Gaze (The Flaming Lips, Red Rocks 2016)

Context: this is sheet music for the song Feeling Yourself Disintegrate from The Flaming Lips' Red Rocks performance of The Soft Bulletin album featuring the Colorado Symphony that happened 10 years ago today. I was there, amazing show! Photo originally posted by Brandon Anderson in a Facebook Flaming Lips fan group.

u/Jeremothman — 1 month ago

My recording of Feeling Yourself Disintegrate live at Red Rocks 10 years ago today

I flew in from Ohio to be at this show, was amazing!

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u/Jeremothman — 1 month ago

From my Star Wars: Alien Archive book. "Most are believed to be mythical monsters, but who knows..."

u/Jeremothman — 1 month ago

Nice argument. One problem... I'm under your house

Since there isn't a documentary about Tunnel Girl yet, but I'm looking for more movies in this genre. So far on my list:
-Parasite
-Secret Mall Apartment
-MouseHunt
-The Incredibles (for its end)

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u/Jeremothman — 2 months ago