Week 11 – Using Microsoft Excel – Lecture Notes – Primer Screening

  
Primer
Based on a couple of guys (Hackers) that develope a time machine.  This fast paced, fast talking American movie was worth about 6 out of 10 in my rankings.  It all goes wrong in the end as they plan to travel into the future to gain stock and shares listings to then travel back and become mega rich.  [...]

Week 8 – Internet Field Trip – eXistenZ – Jason Nelson

 
eXistenZ
This movie talks virtual gaming to its limits!  Shame about Jude Law’s stupid looking gun though!  I’ll give this 7 out of 10 as it did keep me interested all the way through.  The movie was interesting in the sense that you sometimes couldn’t distinguish which was the real world and the virtual… except for [...]

Week 4 – Library, Database, Email Lists and Internet Searches – Alphaville

Alphaville
A black and white science fiction movie representing the distopia in another planet in the future.  I didn’t look very futuristic to me though, but what do you expect as it was made in the 60’s!!  I like the trench-coat too, very imaginative and futuristic!!  The hero caled himself a Guadalcanal veteran.

After brainstorming a variety [...]

Week 3 – Ideology in Films – La Jetee

 
La Jetee is a 1962 black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker.  About a post-nuclear-war experiment in time travel, using a series of optically printed photographs.  No dialogue and only narration.  It tells the story of
Paris after world war 3, living underground in the Palais de Challot galleries.  They try to send someone [...]