Ben Samuel
"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."
George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"
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Ben Samuel
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
My film 'The Magic Lantern'
A celebration of the magic and wonder of early cinema.
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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...
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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.
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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
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Ben Samuel
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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