GeorgeOrwell &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:GeorgeOrwell @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:45:42 +0200 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rudolph Cartier, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gsd4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rudolph Cartier, 1954)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" indigo/div div class="img" Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)/div div class="caption" Winston Smith (Peter Cushing). We only see his frail looking back with the identifier KZ-6090, and his name SMITH W./div div class="txt" description Indigo, in food or fashion "He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended. " ### – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) (via) /description the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #indigo #colours #RudolphCartier #GeorgeOrwell #PeterCushing #AndréMorell #YvonneMitchell #DonaldPleasence #ArnoldDiamond #JohnHotchkis #SciFi #drama #dystopia #TVMovie #BookAdaptation #UK #1950s/div /section ]]>

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rudolph Cartier, 1954)

Aug

18

indigo

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)

Winston Smith (Peter Cushing). We only see his frail looking back with the identifier KZ-6090, and his name SMITH W.

Indigo, in food or fashion*

“He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended. “

– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) (via)

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #indigo #colours #RudolphCartier #GeorgeOrwell #PeterCushing #AndréMorell #YvonneMitchell #DonaldPleasence #ArnoldDiamond #JohnHotchkis #SciFi #drama #dystopia #TVMovie #BookAdaptation #UK #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gsd4 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:59:20 +0200 Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mpdj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" freebie: a movie from 1984/div div class="img" Der Riese (1983/1984)/div div class="caption" A woman, we only see her hands, waits at a counter while clutching her purse. Her handbag is next to her. The camera focusses on the small space reserved to count out money. DP: n/a./div div class="txt" January 21 redux: a film from 1984 on the date Orwell died (1950). "The film is about observing, about glances that see without being seen, a dubious art of light and visibility." ### – Michael Klier, via According to Harun Farocki, Der Riese was the first narrative film completely compiled out of surveillance footage./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #MichaelKlier #FoundFootage #ExperimentalFilm #surveillance #documentary #WestGermany #1980s/div /section ]]>

Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, 1983/1984)

Feb

15

freebie: a movie from 1984

Der Riese (1983/1984)

A woman, we only see her hands, waits at a counter while clutching her purse. Her handbag is next to her. The camera focusses on the small space reserved to count out money. DP: n/a.

January 21 redux: a film from 1984 on the date Orwell died (1950).

“The film is about observing, about glances that see without being seen, a dubious art of light and visibility.”

– Michael Klier, via

According to Harun Farocki, Der Riese was the first narrative film completely compiled out of surveillance footage.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #MichaelKlier #FoundFootage #ExperimentalFilm #surveillance #documentary #WestGermany #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mpdj Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100 War Machine (Duvet Brothers, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sqmt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" War Machine (Duvet Brothers, 1984)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" the passing of Orwell/div div class="img" War Machine (1984)/div div class="caption" A repurposed TV still of a battle ship billowing thick black smoke with the text WAR MACHINE superimposed over it./div div class="txt" A scratch video from 1984 on the date George Orwell died (1950). Date of production is either 84 or 85. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #DuvetBrothers #PeterBoydMaclean #RikLander #ScratchVideo #ShortFilm #war #ExperimentalFilm #Artfilm #UK #1980s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

War Machine (Duvet Brothers, 1984)

Jan

21

the passing of Orwell

War Machine (1984)

A repurposed TV still of a battle ship billowing thick black smoke with the text WAR MACHINE superimposed over it.

A scratch video from 1984 on the date George Orwell died (1950). Date of production is either 84 or 85.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GeorgeOrwell #DuvetBrothers #PeterBoydMaclean #RikLander #ScratchVideo #ShortFilm #war #ExperimentalFilm #Artfilm #UK #1980s ★★★★★

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