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"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

Ben Samuel

Mar 23
1 min

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"

Ben Samuel

Mar 17
1 min

The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1984)

Foot age from The Making of Fanny and Alexander

Ben Samuel

Feb 27
2 min

Jean Vigo (1905-1934)

Jean Vigo's films Zéro de conduite (1933) and L'Atalante (1934)

Ben Samuel

Nov 1, 2022
1 min

My film 'The Magic Lantern'

A celebration of the magic and wonder of early cinema.

Egon Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith & Gustav Klimt

Ben Samuel

Oct 18, 2022
2 min

Egon Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith & Gustav Klimt

Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...

Ben Samuel

Sep 21, 2022
4 min

When Weegee met Alfred Stieglitz

Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.

Ben Samuel

Aug 12, 2022
1 min

Rembrandt's "dirty little secrets"

Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"

Ben Samuel

Jun 21, 2022
1 min

Ingmar Bergman interview

An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.

Ben Samuel

Jun 13, 2022
1 min

Jean Genet (1910 - 1986) interview

Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.

Ben Samuel

Jun 13, 2022
2 min

Albert Pinkham Ryder - art and decay

The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.

Ben Samuel

May 25, 2022
3 min

William Blake's Visionary heads

Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.

Ben Samuel

May 5, 2022
4 min

JG Ballard "What I Believe"

‘What I Believe’ is a prose poem originally published in French in Science Fiction #1 in January 1984.

Ben Samuel

Apr 28, 2022
10 min

Bruno Schulz "trying to occur"

The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz

Ben Samuel

Apr 12, 2022
2 min

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)

The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)

Ben Samuel

Apr 5, 2022
2 min

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Akira Kurosawa describes the Great Kantō earthquake of (1923)

Ben Samuel

Mar 28, 2022
1 min

Akira Kurosawa describes the Great Kantō earthquake of (1923)

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Wax anatomical models by Clemente Susini

Ben Samuel

Mar 21, 2022
1 min

Wax anatomical models by Clemente Susini

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

Ben Samuel

Mar 3, 2022
1 min

Rare footage of Albert Camus

Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

Ben Samuel

Mar 3, 2022
1 min

Isaiah Berlin on the power of ideas

"Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas..."

Ben Samuel

Mar 3, 2022
1 min

Albert Camus Quote from The Plague

“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Friedrich Nietzsche's Mental Breakdown

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

"Advertisements" by J.G Ballard

"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Sergei Parajanov discussing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Experimental text collages by JG Ballard

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Experimental text collages by JG Ballard

Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly

The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering work on locomotion

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Artwork by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Interview with Titanic survivor Frank Prentice

Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Philip K Dick's bizarre delusions and paranoid fantasies

While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Philip K. Dick discussing science fiction

Philip K. Dick interview (1977). Here he discusses how science fiction is viewed on a bottom rung of genres.

Imaginary Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Le Carceri d'Invenzione)

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
3 min

Imaginary Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Le Carceri d'Invenzione)

An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Walking cities - collages by Ron Herron

In the 1960s architect Ron Herron (1930 - 1994) designed collages of his concept of Walking Cities.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

An Impossible Balancing Feat (1902) Dir Georges Méliès

Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Eadweard Muybridge photography

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Motopia "a utopia for motorists" (1959)

Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Harry Clarke's stained glass windows

Incredibly beautiful stained glass windows by Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)

Etienne-Jules Marey inventor of chronophotography

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Etienne-Jules Marey inventor of chronophotography

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.

Infernal Dictionary (1818) Jacques Collin de Plancy

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Infernal Dictionary (1818) Jacques Collin de Plancy

Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.

The Snowflake Man - First pictures of snow crystals

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

The Snowflake Man - First pictures of snow crystals

Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

JG Ballard returns to Shanghai

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.

Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)

Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Nudes by Anne Brigman

Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.

Atomic bomb explosions (1946–52) taken with Rapatronic Camera